This Day in HistoryOctober 23

42 B.C.

Marcus JuniusBrutus, one of the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the 2nd

Battle of Philippi

1825

Ane Petrine Larsen, Mr. Seeley’s great-great-great-grandmother, is born in Hjorring, Denmark

1925

Johnny Carson, longtime host of NBC’s Tonight Show, is born in Corning, Iowa

1942

Michael Crichton, author of the book Jurassic Park, is born in Chicago

1959

American musician “Weird Al” Yankovic, known best for his humorous parody songs, is born in Downey, California

1976

The American band Chicago has its first #1 hit with the song “If You Leave Me Now”

1983

241 American servicemen are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon—the bombing was traced to the militant political group Hezbollah

1998

16-year-old Britney Spears releases her debut single, “…Baby One More Time”—the song would spend two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Singles Chart

2002

50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking 700 hostages—120 people are killed 3 days later when authorities raid the theater

2015

Adele releases the song “Hello,” which becomes the first song to reach 1 million downloads in its 1st week

2018

The film Bohemian Rhapsody, a biographical drama about the life of Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury,premieres in London

2019

California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, shuts off power to 500,000 customers over wildfire concerns—the outage lasted two days

2020

After last night’s final presidential debate, both candidates return to the campaign trail today—Trump will be in Florida while Biden will be in Delaware

2020

Game 3 of the World Series is tonight in Arlington, Texas—the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays are currently tied 1-1 in the series

2020

Snow in the forecast for today could help tamp down the eleven wildfires across Colorado including the Cameron Peak fire, which is the largest in the state’s history

2020

This week Spain became the first country in western Europe to reach 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases—there are over 8 million confirmed cases in the U.S. and over 41 million worldwide