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Events on the 20th of October in history

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20 Oct 1097 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch
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20 Oct 1528 Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor & church)
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20 Oct 1536 Danish / Norw King Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions
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20 Oct 1548 The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
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20 Oct 1572 Relief of Goes, Cristóbal de Mondragón with 3000 soldiers of the Spanish Tercios, release the siege of the city.
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20 Oct 1576 Spanish troops occupies and plunder Maastricht
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20 Oct 1587 Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League
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20 Oct 1600 Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
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20 Oct 1603 Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
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20 Oct 1634 English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax
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20 Oct 1714 Georg Ludwig of Hannover crowned as King George I
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20 Oct 1720 Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
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20 Oct 1740 Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
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20 Oct 1740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
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20 Oct 1751 Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort
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20 Oct 1774 Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment
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20 Oct 1781 Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
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20 Oct 1786 Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US
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20 Oct 1803 The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
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20 Oct 1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
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20 Oct 1805 General Mack's army surrender to Napoleon I at Ulm after a few skirmishes.
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20 Oct 1813 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
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20 Oct 1817 1st Mississippi "Showboat, " leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
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20 Oct 1818 49th parallel forms as border between US and Canada
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20 Oct 1818 The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
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20 Oct 1818 49th parallel established as the border between US & Canada
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20 Oct 1818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
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20 Oct 1820 Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million
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20 Oct 1822 1st edition of London Sunday Times
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20 Oct 1827 Battle at Navarino: Engl / Russ / French fleet beat Turk / Egyptian fleet
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20 Oct 1827 Battle of Navarino: a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
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20 Oct 1833 Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana
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20 Oct 1835 HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago / sails to Tahiti
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20 Oct 1843 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname
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20 Oct 1845 The opera "Tannh
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20 Oct 1847 Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa
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20 Oct 1856 Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in the Netherlands opens
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20 Oct 1862 Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname
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20 Oct 1864 Lincoln formaly establishes Thanksgiving as a National holiday
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20 Oct 1873 P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth, " opens (NYC)
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20 Oct 1873 Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
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20 Oct 1880 Amsterdam Free University opens
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20 Oct 1883 Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
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20 Oct 1883 Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile
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20 Oct 1888 Chicago and All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, New Zealand
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20 Oct 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins
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20 Oct 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) begins
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20 Oct 1898 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
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20 Oct 1899 Battle at Talana Hill Natal: British army vs. Boers
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20 Oct 1899 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup
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20 Oct 1903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada
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20 Oct 1904 Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
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20 Oct 1905 Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
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20 Oct 1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
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20 Oct 1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)
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20 Oct 1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his radio tube
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20 Oct 1908 King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
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20 Oct 1910 Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
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20 Oct 1910 The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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20 Oct 1910 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series (World Series #7)
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20 Oct 1911 Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St, New York City
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20 Oct 1911 Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
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20 Oct 1912 Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St, New York City
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20 Oct 1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
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20 Oct 1918 Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions
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20 Oct 1920 "1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in New York City
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20 Oct 1922 Kennelworth in the Bronx renamed Dwight Place
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20 Oct 1924 1st Negro League World Series: Kansas City Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0
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20 Oct 1926 Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
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20 Oct 1929 Bayshore Highway opens (San Francisco)
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20 Oct 1929 Bayshore Highway opens (SF)
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20 Oct 1930 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
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20 Oct 1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
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20 Oct 1931 Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP
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20 Oct 1932 Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS
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20 Oct 1934 All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan
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20 Oct 1934 Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau"
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20 Oct 1935 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
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20 Oct 1935 Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels
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20 Oct 1935 Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up
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20 Oct 1935 The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
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20 Oct 1936 Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL
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20 Oct 1936 Spanish government moves to Barcelona
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20 Oct 1939 "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
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20 Oct 1939 Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus.
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20 Oct 1940 Cheese rationed in the Netherlands
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20 Oct 1940 Greenhouse rationing begins in the Netherlands
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20 Oct 1941 Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia
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20 Oct 1941 World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
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20 Oct 1942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
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20 Oct 1943 The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
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20 Oct 1944 Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland explodes, 135 die, 3,600 homeless
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20 Oct 1944 Russian / Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade
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20 Oct 1944 US 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines
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20 Oct 1944 The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
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20 Oct 1944 Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
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20 Oct 1944 American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
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20 Oct 1944 30 blocks of Cleveland OH burn after a liquid gas factory explodes
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20 Oct 1944 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
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20 Oct 1944 US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
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20 Oct 1944 US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines
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20 Oct 1945 Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg
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20 Oct 1946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs. New York Giants
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20 Oct 1946 Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam decides that October 20 is Vietnam Women's Day.
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20 Oct 1947 Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years
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20 Oct 1947 The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
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20 Oct 1947 United States of America and Islamic Republic of Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time.
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20 Oct 1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
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20 Oct 1951 The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
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20 Oct 1952 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya
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20 Oct 1952 Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
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20 Oct 1953 WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
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20 Oct 1954 "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances
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20 Oct 1955 "No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith
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20 Oct 1955 Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)
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20 Oct 1955 Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
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20 Oct 1956 58
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20 Oct 1956 Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft
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20 Oct 1957 Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w / o losing a wkt
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20 Oct 1957 Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
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20 Oct 1959 Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
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20 Oct 1959 WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast
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20 Oct 1960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, Rhode Island
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20 Oct 1960 Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
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20 Oct 1961 The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
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20 Oct 1962 "Mr President" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 265 performances
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20 Oct 1962 Chinese army lands in India
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20 Oct 1962 Musical, "Mr President, " written by Irving Berlin, opens on Broadway
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20 Oct 1962 People's Republic of China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
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20 Oct 1963 Alec Douglas-Home forms British government
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20 Oct 1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open
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20 Oct 1963 WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Oct 1963 Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds
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20 Oct 1963 S Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy
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20 Oct 1964 "Golden Boy" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances
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20 Oct 1964 Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
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20 Oct 1964 Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)
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20 Oct 1965 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal
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20 Oct 1965 Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"
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20 Oct 1965 Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
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20 Oct 1967 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan, Mississippi
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20 Oct 1967 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers
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20 Oct 1967 Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland Athletics
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20 Oct 1967 KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
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20 Oct 1968 "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 performances
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20 Oct 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
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20 Oct 1968 Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4)
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20 Oct 1968 Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
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20 Oct 1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
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20 Oct 1969 WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
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20 Oct 1970 American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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20 Oct 1970 Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return)
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20 Oct 1970 Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
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20 Oct 1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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20 Oct 1971 The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
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20 Oct 1972 Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia
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20 Oct 1973 Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty
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20 Oct 1973 Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"
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20 Oct 1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House
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20 Oct 1973 Solicitor General Bork, AG Richardson and Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
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20 Oct 1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR and moves station from NYC to Scituate, Massachusetts
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20 Oct 1973 US President Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox
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20 Oct 1973 "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
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20 Oct 1973 The Sydney Opera House opens.
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20 Oct 1973 OPEC oil embargo begins
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20 Oct 1973 Pres Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st
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20 Oct 1973 William Shatner marries Marcy Lafferty
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20 Oct 1973 Sat Night Massacre, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
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20 Oct 1974 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF
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20 Oct 1975 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
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20 Oct 1976 New York Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers
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20 Oct 1976 The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
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20 Oct 1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
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20 Oct 1976 NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to the Phila 76ers
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20 Oct 1977 Hamilton Deane and John Balderstons "Dracula, " premieres in New York City
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20 Oct 1977 Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashes.
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20 Oct 1977 3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash
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20 Oct 1978 Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
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20 Oct 1979 Bob Dylan appears on SNL
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20 Oct 1979 John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 Oct 1979 John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
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20 Oct 1981 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey Nets lose to New York Knicks 103-99
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20 Oct 1981 Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured
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20 Oct 1981 Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, New York, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
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20 Oct 1981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
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20 Oct 1982 Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler
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20 Oct 1982 Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected
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20 Oct 1982 St. Louis Cardinals beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series
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20 Oct 1982 During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
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20 Oct 1982 Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's
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20 Oct 1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
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20 Oct 1984 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals
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20 Oct 1986 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
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20 Oct 1987 Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts / 608,120,000 shares traded (record)
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20 Oct 1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
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20 Oct 1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
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20 Oct 1988 Dodgers win World Series, LA 1st to have both NBA and baseball champs as LA beats Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series
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20 Oct 1988 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
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20 Oct 1988 Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
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20 Oct 1988 LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's in 85th World Series 4 games to 1
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20 Oct 1988 Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
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20 Oct 1988 Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
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20 Oct 1988 LA 1st to have both NBA & baseball champs as LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series
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20 Oct 1989 Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India and WI on round-robin
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20 Oct 1989 US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
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20 Oct 1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obscenity charges in Florida
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20 Oct 1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
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20 Oct 1990 Cincinatti Reds sweep Oakland A's in the 87th World Series
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20 Oct 1991 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
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20 Oct 1991 Formal opening ceremony of International One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colorado
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20 Oct 1991 The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
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20 Oct 1991 A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
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20 Oct 1991 Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
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20 Oct 1992 1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta
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20 Oct 1992 Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia Liberia and is exiled to Nigeria
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20 Oct 1993 Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m
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20 Oct 1995 Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
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20 Oct 1995 STS 73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit
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20 Oct 1996 "Summer & Smoke" closes at Criterion Theater, New York City
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20 Oct 1996 Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series
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20 Oct 1997 Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty
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20 Oct 1997 US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers
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20 Oct 2011 Libyan Civil War: National Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter.
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