{Click on 5th photo & scroll right to see remaining photos} Historical Events on 20th October 1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch (First Crusade) 1536 - Danish/Norwegian King Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions 1600 - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japans rulers (shoguns) 1603 - Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed 1714 - Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I 1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia 1774 - Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment 1781 - Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy. 1786 - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US 1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase 1813 - German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished 1818 - 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada 1818 - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country 1820 - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million 1833 - Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana River 1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti 1862 - Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname 1864 - US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday 1873 - P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring Greatest Show on Earth, opens (NYC) 1899 - Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers 1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada 1904 - Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific; it recognizes Chiles possession of the coast, but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica on the coast 1905 - Russian Tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish 1906 – Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube) 1908 - King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium 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, Ireland. 1911 - Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St NYC 1911 - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole 1912 - Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC 1926 - Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600 1930 - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land 1935 - 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid 1935 - Communist forces end their Long March at Yanan, in Shaanxi China bringing Mao Zedong to prominence 1941 - Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia 1944 - Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade 1944 - US 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines 1944 - US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines 1945 - Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Nuremberg 1947 - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood 1950 - Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and James Lovelock give the first demonstration of gas chromatography at a meeting of the Biochemical Society. The technique is rapidly adopted by the petrochemical industry. 1951 - The Johnny Bright Incident occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma 1955 - Harry Belafonte records Day-O (Banana Boat Song) 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island 1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria 1963 - South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy 1965 - Beatles receive a gold record for Yesterday 1965 - Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia 1968 - Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4) 1970 - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1973 - OPEC oil embargo begins 1973 - President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century 1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House 1973 - US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox 1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning 1981 - 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery 1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail 1988 - Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA 2011 - The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters. Happy Birthday to famous stiffs Mickey Mantle, legendary New York Yankee who hit 536 career home runs, was named American League MVP three times, and led the AL in home runs 4 times and batting average once; won the Triple Crown in 1956 and totaled 7 World Series Championships in his 18-year career. He was my current age (63) when he died of liver cancer (83), Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor who was immortalized as Dracula in 1931. His immortal role as the count led him to play roles in 1934s The Black Cat and 1935s The Raven (132), Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist, TV personality, and Good Housekeeping magazine advice columnist, she helped popularize psychology in the second half of the Twentieth Century. Her fame began after she was the winner of the American quiz show, The $64,000 Question (87), Jerry Orbach, veteran actor who played Detective Briscoe on Law & Order. He played Billy Flynn in the original production of Chicago and played Lumire in Beauty and the Beast (79), Jelly Roll Morton, first great jazz composer whose Jelly Roll Blues became the first jazz composition to be published. He was also jazzs first arranger (124), Charles Ives, modernist composer who was an American original, pioneering eclectic and experimental music, polytonality, and tone clusters. Some historians credit him with composing the 20th centurys first radical musical work Central Park in the Dark in 1906 (140), Nellie Mcclung, proponent of female suffrage and the temperance movement, who became one of Canadas best-known civil rights activists (141). Arthur Rimbaud, French symbolist and decadent poet who is remembered for such works as Le Soleil Etait Encore Chaud and Une Saison en Enfer. His later works include Illuminations and Lettres (160), Art Buchwald, American humorist who wrote a long-running column in The Washington Post. In 1982, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary (89), Ellery Queen, the pseudonym of the Daniel Nathan and Manford Lepofsky team of mystery writers, Ellery Queen is also the name of the main character in the Nathan-Lepofsky cousins novels (109), Addison Richards, American actor who has appeared in over three hundred films since 1933. He concluded his career with the 1960 film, Inherit the Wind (127), Arlene Francis, who appeared as a regular panelist on the game shows Whats My Line?, Password, and Match Game, and later became an accomplished actress (107), Carla Laemmle, actress who appeared in the classic horror film Dracula, in which she spoke the opening lines of dialogue. She also played a role in the 1927 film adaptation of Uncle Toms Cabin (105), Earl Hindman, actor who played the role of Tim Taylors never-seen neighbor, Wilson, on the 1990s sitcom Home Improvement (72) and Michael Dunn, born with medical Dwarfism, he is perhaps most remembered as Dr. Miguelito Loveless on the Western spy spoof series The Wild Wild West (80). Snoop Dogg, legendary rapper who has sold over 30 million records, and whose debut album, Doggystyle, sold nearly 1 million copies the week of its release. He is known for his laid back persona and his advocacy for the recreational use of marijuana (43), Viggo Mortensen, who gained recognition for his portrayal of Aragorn in Lord of the Rings and The Man in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthys The Road. His other notable films include A Perfect Murder, The Indian Runner, Crimson Tide, and Portrait of a Lady (56), John Krasinski, known for his role as Jim Halpert on the popular television show, The Office. All of his other notable roles are in films, including Promised Land which he helped write along with Matt Damon (35), Tom Petty, frontman of rock group Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for hit tracks like Free Fallin and Last Dance With Mary Jane AND William Russ, who played Ben Savages on-screen father for 8 seasons on Boy Meets World (64), Finlay, British Heavyweight Champion, 6-time British Heavy Middleweight Champion, and a 2-time British Light Heavyweight Champion (56), Zhenwei Wang, martial arts expert who made his film debut as Cheng in the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid (19), William Christopher, who played the role of Father Mulcahy, the camps spiritual advisor, on the 1970s television series, M*A*S*H. He also had a recurring role on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (82), Danny Boyle, movie director whose film Slumdog Millionaire won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture (58), Keith Hernandez, 5-time All-Star first baseman who won World Series Championships with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1982 and the New York Mets in 1986; won the National League MVP Award and the batting title in 1979 and earned 11 straight Gold Glove Awards from 1978 to 1988 (61), Elfriede Jelinek, playwright and fiction writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, she is best known for her novel, The Piano Teacher (originally published in German as Die Klavierspielerin) (68), American fantasy writer of LGBT-themed work, she is most famous for her acclaimed Nightrunner series and for her Tamir Triad (56) and Barrie Chase, film and television actress and dancer known for her appearances in such Hollywood movies as Brigadoon, Pal Joey, Daddy Long Legs, and Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Her television credits include dance performances on The Colgate Comedy Hour and Bonanza (81) are celebrating because theyre not dead yet. 1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase 1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor who was immortalized as Dracula in 1931. His immortal role as the count led him to play roles in 1934s The Black Cat and 1935s The Raven (132) 1904 - Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific; it recognizes Chiles possession of the coast, but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica on the coast 1911 - Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St NYC 1912 - Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC 1925 - Art Buchwald, American humorist who wrote a long-running column in The Washington Post. In 1982, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary (89) 1927 - Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist, TV personality, and Good Housekeeping magazine advice columnist, she helped popularize psychology in the second half of the Twentieth Century. Her fame began after she was the winner of the American quiz show, The $64,000 Question (87) 1931 - Mickey Mantle, legendary New York Yankee who hit 536 career home runs, was named American League MVP three times, and led the AL in home runs 4 times and batting average once; won the Triple Crown in 1956 and totaled 7 World Series Championships in his 18-year career. He was my current age (63) when he died of liver cancer (83) 1932 - William Christopher, who played the role of Father Mulcahy, the camps spiritual advisor, on the 1970s television series, M*A*S*H. He also had a recurring role on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. 1934 - Michael Dunn, born Gary Neil Miller with medical Dwarfism, he is perhaps most remembered as Dr. Miguelito Loveless on the Western spy spoof series The Wild Wild West (80) 1942 - Earl Hindman, actor who played the role of Tim Taylors never-seen neighbor, Wilson, on the 1990s sitcom Home Improvement (72) 1944 - US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines 1947 - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood 1951 - The Johnny Bright Incident occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma 1963 - South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy 1968 - Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4) 1970 - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1973 - President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century 1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning 1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
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