Today in History 10/23 (Beirut Barracks Bombings)

Date: Oct 23, 1983
Fatalities: 307
Attack type: Suicide attack, Truck bombs, Mass murder, Terrorism
Deaths: Total: 307 (305 victims (241 U.S. peacekeepers, 58 French peacekeepers and 6 civilians) + 2 suicide bombers)
Non-fatal injuries: 75
Diagram showing Hezbollah SVBIED terror attack on USMC barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983.
wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings
(1983) Terrorists strike US and French military posts in Beirut.
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42 BCE | Antony vs. Brutus as Caesar’s compatriots fight it out with his assassin
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42 BCE | Antony vs. Brutus as Caesar’s compatriots fight it out with his assassin
Julius Caesar has been dead more than two years when the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian catch up with those of one of Caesar’s killers, Brutus, in Philippi, Macedonia. Brutus has lost his compatriot Cassius to suicide, and now his forces, and his spirit, are soundly defeated, as he too takes his own life.1947 | American husband and wife win Nobel Prize
Carl F. Cori and Gerty Cori are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ‘for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.’ Gerty Cori becomes the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science and the first woman to win this specific award.1956 | Revolution in Hungary as Hungarians stage popular uprising against USSR
Seven years of Soviet domination is more than enough for 20,000 Hungarians who gather in Budapest calling for their country’s independence. Some 180,000 more join them, but state police fire on the crowd, marking the start of a crackdown that will eventually crush the nascent revolution.
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Start date: Oct 23, 1956
End date: Nov 10, 1956
Hole in flag - Budapest 1956
wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956