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Today in History ~ October 20
Events1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
1603 - Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
1714 - Georg Ludwig of Hannover crowned as King George I
1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
1774 - Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment
1786 - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US
1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase [H]
1817 - 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
1818 - 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada [H]
1820 - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million
1822 - 1st edition of London Sunday Times
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana
1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti
1864 - Abraham Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday
1873 - P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens (NYC)
1877 - Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1883 - Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed
1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada
1905 - Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1905 - Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
1906 - Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)
1911 - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
1918 - Germany accepted U.S. President Wilson's terms to end World War I.
1926 - Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
1930 - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
1930 - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1934 - All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan
1934 - Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau"
1935 - 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
1935 - Mao Tse Tung & his Communist forces end their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China
1939 - "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch
1941 - Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia
1944 - Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland explodes, 135 die, 3,600 homeless
1944 - Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade
1944 - US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
1944 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur kept his promise to return to the Philippines Islands when he landed with American forces during World War II.
1945 - British Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Nuremberg
1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opened public hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1952 - Outbreak of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya
1954 - "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances
1955 - "No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith
1955 - Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)
1955 - Ira Levin's "No Time for Sergeants," premieres in NYC
1957 - Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
1960 - 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
1962 - Chinese army lands in India
1962 - Musical, "Mr President," written by Irving Berlin, opens on Bdwy
1963 - Alec Douglas-Home forms British government
1963 - Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 8,390 yds
1965 - Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"
1965 - Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
1967 - All white fed jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers
1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1973 - OPEC oil embargo begins
1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House
1973 - US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox
1973 - Solicitor Gen Bork survives resignations of AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus
1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
1977 - David Mamet's "Life in the Theater," premieres in NYC
1979 - John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
1981 - 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
1982 - The world's worst soccer disaster occurred in Moscow when 340 sports fans were crushed to death in an open staircase during a game between Soviet and Dutch players.
1983 - IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
1987 - 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
1988 - Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
1988 - Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
1989 - US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
1990 - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
1992 - One of Europe's leading environmentalists, Germany's Greens Party founder Petra Kelly, was found shot to death by her companion, Gert Bastian, who then committed suicide.
1996 - The FBI notified Richard Jewell's attorney that Jewell was no longer a suspect in the Olympic bombing in Atlanta.
1996 - "Summer & Smoke" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers using Windows 95
2000 - A former U.S. Army sergeant pleaded guilty to participating in a terrorist plot against Americans. His testimony directly linked Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden to the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
2001 - Anthrax scares continued across the world as reports of letters with white powder possibly containing anthrax spread from Japan to Pakistan, Lebanon, Kenya and France. In Washington, where anthrax had been found, Congress said it would resume work on Monday.
2002 - Showing its displeasure with North Korea for re- starting its nuclear program, the United States was re- ported to be considering cutting off vital fuel oil supplies to that country
Birthdays Today
1435 - Andrea Della Robbia, Florence, sculptor, nephew of Luca
1632 - Sir Christopher Wren (architect, astronomer, mathematician)
1637 - Nicolaas van der Veken, Flemish sculptor (confessional chairs)
1759 - Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician/French Revolutionary
1780 - M Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma/Guastalla
1784 - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs
1819 - Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
1823 - Thomas Hughes, England, author (Tom Brown's School Days)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations)
1859 - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing)
1874 - Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holiday Quick Step)
1888 - Bela Lugosi (Blasko) (actor: Dracula, One Body Too Many, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Night Monster, Chandu the Magician, The Ape Man, The Body Snatcher)
1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya opposition leader/1st premier (1963-78)
1900 - Heinrich Himmler, head of SS
1900 - Wayne Morse, (Sen-R/D-Ore)
1905 - Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) (author: mystery series (w/Manfred B. Lee])
1908 - Arlene Francis (Kazanjian) (actress: Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Thrill of it All; TV emcee: Who's There, Talent Patrol, The Comeback Story, Blind Date; panelist: What's My Line)
1911 - Will Rogers Jr, NY, actor (Down to Earth)
1913 - Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones (Country Music Hall of Famer: Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry; singer: The All-American Boy, T for Texas, Old Rattler, Mountain Dew)
1922 - Herschel Bernardi (actor: Peter Gunn, Arnie, Love with the Proper Stranger, Irma La Douce; voice: Charlie Tuna TV commercials, Jetson characters)
1923 - Robert Craft, Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower
1925 - Art Buchwald (newspaper columnist; author: While Reagan Slept, Leaving Home) (Have I Ever Lied to You)
1928 - Dr. Joyce Brothers (Bauer) (psychologist; syndicated columnist; TV contestant: $64,000 Question [1955]; panelist: The Gong Show, Naked Gun)
1931 - Mickey Mantle (Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees: World Series [12] records: most home runs [18], most RBIs [40], most walks [13], most strikeouts [54]; three time MVP).(1956 Triple Crown)
1932 - Roosevelt Brown (Pro Football Hall of Famer: NY Giants offensive tackle; 8 time All Pro)
1932 - William Christopher (actor: M*A*S*H, Aftermash, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., With Six You Get Eggroll)
1934 - Michael Dunn (Gary Miller) (actor: Ship of Fools, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Madigan, House of the Damned)
1935 - Jerry Ohrbach, Bronx NY, (actor: Tony Award-winning actor: Promises, Promises [1969]; Law and Order, Dirty Dancing, Straight Talk, Brewster's Millions; voice of candelabra: Beauty and the Beast)
1937 - Juan Marichal (Baseball Hall of Famer: San Francisco Giants pitcher: World Series [1962], Boston Red Sox, LA Dodgers)
1937 - Wanda Jackson (singer: Right or Wrong, Let's Have a Party, In the Middle of a Heartache; songwriter: [Let's Stop] Kickin' Our Hearts Around)
1942 - Earl Hindman (actor: Home Improvement, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe)
1946 - Anne Murray, Springhill Nova Scotia, country singer (Snowbird)
1950 - Isaac Curtis (football: Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver: Super Bowl XVI)
1951 - Al Greenwood (musician: keyboard: group: Foreigner: Feels Like the First Time, Cold as Ice, Hot Blooded, Double Vision)
1952 - Dave Collins (baseball)
1952 - Dave McLelland (hockey)
1952 - Melanie Mayron (Emmy Award-winning actress: thirtysomething [1988-89])
1953 - Keith Hernandez (baseball: St. Louis Cardinals first base: Baseball Writers' Award [1979], NY Mets)
1953 - Tom Petty (singer: group: The Traveling Wilburys; Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Don't Come Around Here No More, Don't Do Me Like That, Refugee, Freefallin'; in film: Made in Heaven)
1958 - Eric Scott (actor: The Waltons)
Famous deaths
1268 - Konradijn Hohenstaufen, son of Koenraad IV, beheaded in Naples
1438 - Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at 64
1765 - William August duke of Cumberland, Engl supreme commander, dies at 44
1870 - Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
1920 - Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82
1927 - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78
1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st president of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90
1989 - Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76
1990 - Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84
1992 - Germany's Greens Party founder Petra Kelly, one of Europe's leading environmentalists, was found shot to death
1994 - Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80
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