Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the conspirators in the assassination of Julius Caesar dies by suicide after being defeated in battle by Antony in Philippi. Greece.
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The Battle of Philippi takes place in Greece, where the forces of the Second Triumvirate defeat the forces of Brutus and Cassius. The Battle of Philippi took place in two engagements. The first battle was on October 3rd, and the second and decisive battle was on October 23rd.
The Battle of Edgehill between the Royalist army under King Charles I and the Parliamentarian army led by the Earl of Essex takes place, marking the first major conflict of the English Civil War. The battle was fought near Edge Hill in southern Warwickshire, and neither side gained a decisive advantage, leading to a four-year war.
The Eddystone Lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall, England, is completely destroyed by a storm.
On October 23, 1983, U.S. and French troops in Beirut were attacked by two suicide truck bombs during the Lebanese Civil War. The bombs exploded minutes apart. The first bomb struck the U.S. Marine barracks, killing 241 service members, and a second bomb hit the building housing French paratroopers, killing 58 soldiers. The attacks, which claimed a total of 307 lives including civilians, were the deadliest single-day loss for the U.S. Marine Corps since World War II and were carried out by the group Islamic Jihad.
Apple introduces the First generation iPod, revolutionizing the way people listen to music. It had a monochrome LCD screen and a 5 GB hard drive and It was marketed with the slogan "1,000 songs in your pocket"; going on sale in the U.S. on November 10, 2001.
Some 40 Chechen militants burst into the Dubrovka theater in Moscow, during the performance of a popular musical and take hundreds of audience members, actors, and staff hostage, demanding the withdrawal of troops from Russia's Chechnya region. It ended 57 hours later, when security forces stormed the building after pumping in toxic gas that neutralized the attackers but led to the deaths of as many as 174 hostages. More