Today in history
1915
An estimated 25,000 women marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City in support of women’s suffrage.
1956
A student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule began; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country, putting down the uprising within weeks.
1983
241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at the U.S. Marine Corps barracks at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon.