Today is Saturday, Oct. 23, the 297th day of 2004. There are 69 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Oct. 23, the 297th day of 2004. There are 69 days left in the year. On this date in 1983, 241 U.S. Marines and sailors in Lebanon are killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces kills 58 paratroopers.
In 1864, forces led by Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Confederate Gen. Stirling Price's army in Missouri. In 1915, 25,000 women march in New York City, demanding the right to vote. In 1942, during World War II, Britain launches a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt. In 1944, the World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf begins. In 1946, the U.N. General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow. In 1956, an anti-Stalinist revolt that is subsequently crushed by Soviet troops begins in Hungary. In 1973, President Nixon agrees to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica. In 1987, the U.S. Senate rejects, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork. In 1989, in a case that inflames racial tensions in Boston, Charles Stuart claims he and his pregnant wife, Carol, had been shot in their car by a black robber. Carol Stuart and her prematurely delivered baby die; Charles Stuart later dies, an apparent suicide, after he was implicated in the deaths. In 1998, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sign a breakthrough land-for-peace agreement at the White House.
October 23, 1979: Actress Jane Fonda and her political activist husband, Tom Hayden, speak at Youngstown State University, decrying the nation's large corporations and urging residents to become more involved in the electoral process.
Herriott Trucking Co., a major industry in East Palestine for 66 years, is bought by a group of Chicago transportation investors and a local man who is a former employee.
The Standard Oil Co. of Oil and BP Oil Inc. devised a plan to increase prices for independent gas stations in order to force them out of business, an internal memo approved by Sohio in 1973 shows.
October 23, 1964: Mrs. Edith Pieton, 31, an East Side mother of five small children, fires two shotgun blasts to scare off three intruders who tried to enter her McGuffey Road home after her husband left for work. She says she fired warning shots because she didn't want to hurt anyone, but if they come back, she'll "shoot them where it hurts."
Two men are killed in a spectacular fire that guts the top floors of the four-story Metzger Hotel in downtown Salem. The victims have not been identified. Damage is estimated at $500,000 to the building, which housed about 40 guests, most of them elderly.
October 23, 1954: Six men are burned and injured, one seriously in a flash fire and explosion at the U.S. Gypsum plant paint shop in Warren.
After five days of sometimes heated argument, 12 jurors are seated in the trial of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, the Bay Village physician accused of killing his wife, Marilyn, in their lakeside home.
Attempts by Police Chief Paul Cress to use Civil Defense workers and special policemen to spy for the Youngstown Police Department on gambling and other vice meets with resentment and opposition from some of the auxiliary law enforcement agents.
October 23, 1929: The Ohio Supreme Court rules that the city of Salem could be found liable for allowing conditions to exist that resulted in a typhoid epidemic in 1920. F.J. Harding filed suit seeking $2,000 in damages for the illness of his two daughters. The common pleas court had found in favor of the city, but an appeals court and the Supreme Court ordered a new trial.
A prize for the most distinctive service rendered to any community in the United States by a chamber of commerce committee is awarded to the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce special tax committee by the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries. The prize recognizes the tax committee's work in studying the city's annual budgets and drafting the "Youngstown Plan." Which has been widely distributed.
Mrs. Maude Crichton of Scienceville files suit in Mahoning Common Pleas Court seeking $10,000 from Joe Topich, alleging that her husband was stupefied by intoxicating liquor purchased from Topich.