| Date | Text | |||
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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 20 Oct 1925 | Herman Roelstraete: Composer | |||
| 20 Oct 1925 | Art Buchwald, American soldier and journalist (d. 2007) | |||
| 20 Oct 1925 | Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (d. 2002) | |||
| 20 Oct 1925 | Roger Hanin, Algerian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015) | |||
| 20 Oct 1925 | WW2 | Captain Shinpei Kida was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. | ||
| 20 Oct 1925 | Art Buchwald Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You) | |||
| 20 Oct 1925 |
Compotype In 1925, the compotype was patented by its inventor, Clifton Chisholm of Cleveland, Ohio, as an "Embossing Machine" (U.S. No. 1,557,754). The keyboard-controlled machine embossed one line of characters on an aluminum strip with flanged edges. These could be arranged in a holder for several strips in parallel from which several lines of printed material could be produced. Blanks came from a ribbon of metal on a roll, automatically flanged to give a mounting channel shape, and fed between embossing dies. Each character was also printed on a record card, visible during operation. The machine was designed to provide an efficient mechanism for the rapid production of the embossed strips. The patent was assigned to the Multigraph Sales Co. of the same city. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 20 Oct 1950 | Isaac Curtis: NFL wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals) | |||
| 20 Oct 1950 | Henry Lewsis Stimson: US Minister of War / Governor-General | |||
| 20 Oct 1950 | Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch, and Traveling Wilburys) | |||
| 20 Oct 1950 | William Russ, American actor and director | |||
| 20 Oct 1950 | Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (b. 1867) | |||
| 20 Oct 1950 | birth Tom Petty, American musician, singer and songwriter. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had the 1977 single 'American Girl', the 1989 UK No.28 single 'I Won't Back Down', and the 1991 UK No.3 album 'Into The Great Wide Open'. With the Traveling Wilburys, the 1988 UK No. 21 single 'Handle With Care'. Pettry has also released a string of solo albums, and Throughout his career and has sold over 60 million albums. | |||
| 20 Oct 1950 | Finola Hughes London, actress (Anna Devane-General Hospital) | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 20 Oct 1975 | Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 20 Oct 2005 | Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (b. 1934) | |||
| 20 Oct 2005 | Endon Mahmood, Malaysian wife of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (b. 1941) | |||
| 20 Oct 2005 | Eva Švankmajerová, Czech painter and poet (b. 1940) | |||
| 20 Oct 2005 | André van der Louw, Dutch politician, 16th Mayor of Rotterdam (b. 1933) | |||
| 20 Oct 2005 | Michael Jackson received a jury summons at his Neverland ranch in California four months after he was acquitted on child molestation charges. A spokesperson said it was likely he would be excused from serving due to the fact that he has lived in Bahrain since the trial. | |||
| 20 Oct 2005 | US rapper Sticky Fingaz was arrested after allegedly leaving an unlicensed gun in a hotel room. Police said a handgun was found in Manhattan hotel Flatotel, in a room in which the rapper had been staying. Sticky Fingaz, real name Kirk Jones, was not licensed to carry a weapon. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 20 Oct 2010 | Bob Guccione, American publisher, founded Penthouse magazine (b. 1930) | |||
| 20 Oct 2010 | Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-English author (b. 1925) | |||
| 20 Oct 2010 | Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat (b. 1914) | |||
| 20 Oct 2010 | Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan (b. 1940) | |||
| 20 Oct 2010 | Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948) | |||
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