Today in Military History:
October 23
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1642 | Battle of Edgehill. First battle between Royalists and Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. |
| | 1764 | Battle of Buxar, Bengal. 7,000 British defeated 40,000 man Mogul army. |
| | 1942 | Second Battle of El Alamein commences with British diversionary attacks on German positions. |
| | 1956 | The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed by Soviet tanks. |
| | 1983 | Islamic suicide squads drive tuck bombs into American barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 233 Marines. |
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