CNN Interactive - Almanac - October 23, 1998

President Bill Clinton is scheduled to lead a roundtable discussion on women and retirement security issues in Washington.
Thailand observes Chulalongkorn Day, the annual commemoration of the death of King Chulalongkorn the Great, who died October 23, 1910, after a 42-year reign.
A black lawyer from ACLU to defend a member of the Ku Klux Klan who faces felony charges for burning cross at a Klan rally in Hillsville, Virginia.
International Data Group, one of world's largest technology consultants and publisher of high-tech periodicals, will sponsor the first Entertech conference in Carlsbad, California, bringing together the Silicon Valley and Hollywood executives to explore the union of technology and movies.
Star-studded Carousel of Hope, billed as world's largest single-event fund-raiser, will be held in Beverly Hills, California, to fight childhood diabetes.

On Saturday, October 24, the launch of NASA's Deep Space 1 aboard Boeing Delta 7326 rocket is scheduled. It is the first flight in NASA's New Millennium Program at Cape Canaveral.
On Sunday, October 25, Eastern Standard Time returns at 2 a.m. Americans in most states will set their clocks back one hour.
On Monday, October 26, groundbreaking for the Oklahoma City bombing memorial is to be concluded.
On Tuesday, October 27, Germany's newly elected chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will be officially sworn in.
On Wednesday, October 28, the trial is scheduled to begin in Independence, Virginia, for Emmett Cressell, one of two white men accused of burning alive a black man who was later beheaded in July 1997.

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In 1864, forces led by Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeated Confederate Gen. Stirling Price's army in Missouri.
In 1915, 25.000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
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 was subsequently crushed by Soviet troops began in Hungary.
In 1958, Boris Pasternak, author of "Doctor Zhivago," was named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. However, Soviet authorities pressured Pasternak into relinquishing the award.
In 1973, President Richard Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.
In 1978, China and Japan exchanged treaty ratification documents in Tokyo, formally ending four decades of hostility.
In 1987, the U.S. Senate rejected the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote.