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Events on Sunday 23 October 1983 1
1983Beirut Barracks BombingsTruck bombs kill 241 US and 58 French troopsSimultaneous suicide truck bombings struck US Marine and French paratrooper barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American and 58 French peacekeepers. It was the deadliest single-day death toll for the US Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. The attacks led to the withdrawal of multinational forces from Lebanon.