Right this moment is Thursday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2025. There are 69 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Oct. 23, 2001, Apple launched the iPod. An estimated 450 million iPod units have been bought earlier than the road was discontinued in 2022.
Additionally on this date:
In 1915, an estimated 25,000 girls marched on Fifth Avenue in New York Metropolis in assist of girls’s suffrage.
In 1942, throughout World Conflict II, Britain launched a significant offensive towards Axis forces at El Alamein (el ah-lah-MAYN’) in Egypt, leading to an Allied forces victory.
In 1944, the Battle of Leyte (LAY’-tee) Gulf started; the biggest naval battle of World Conflict II resulted in a significant Allied victory towards Japanese forces, paving the best way for the retaking of the Philippines.
In 1956, a student-sparked revolt towards Hungary’s Communist rule started; because the revolution unfold, Soviet forces entered the nation, ending the rebellion on November 4.
In 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, have been killed in a suicide truck-bombing on the U.S. Marine Corps barracks at Beirut Worldwide Airport in Lebanon, whereas a near-simultaneous assault on French barracks in Beirut killed 58 paratroopers.
In 1987, the U.S. Senate rejected the Supreme Court docket nomination of Robert H. Bork, 58-42.
In 1989, 23 folks have been killed in an explosion at a Phillips Petroleum chemical complicated in Pasadena, Texas.
In 1995, a Houston jury convicted Yolanda Saldivar of murdering Tejano singing star Selena; Saldivar was sentenced to life in jail with the potential of parole and stays in jail.
In 2002, Chechen rebels stormed a Moscow theater and took about 800 hostages, demanding that Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya. Russian particular forces raided the theater on Oct. 26; a lot of the rebels and 120 hostages have been killed.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Movie director Philip Kaufman is 89.
- Advocate and humanitarian Graça Machel is 80.
- Movie director Ang Lee is 71.
- Jazz singer Dianne Reeves is 69.
- Nation singer Dwight Yoakam is 69.
- Activist and philanthropist Martin Luther King III is 68.
- Writer and commentator Michael Eric Dyson is 67.
- Movie director Sam Raimi is 66.
- Comedic musician “Bizarre Al” Yankovic is 66.
- Rock musician Robert Trujillo (Metallica) is 61.
- Racing driver and paracyclist Alex Zanardi is 59.
- CNN medical reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta is 56.
- TV persona Cat Deeley is 49.
- Actor Ryan Reynolds is 49.
- TV persona, writer and political commentator Meghan McCain is 41.
- R&B singer Miguel is 40.
- Actor Emilia Clarke is 39.
- Actor Margaret Qualley is 31.
- Actor Amandla Stenberg is 27.