OCTOBER 20 IN HISTORY 1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch (First Crusade) 1536 - Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions 1587 - Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League 1634 - English King Charles I disbands new Ship Money tax 1714 - Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I 1774 - Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment 1786 - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US 1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase 1817 - 1st Mississippi Showboat, leaves Nashville on maiden voyage 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 1853 - 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (20) weds music teacher Caroline Scott (21) 1864 - US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday 1873 - P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring Greatest Show on Earth, opens (NYC) 1880 - Amsterdam Free University opens 1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821) 1891 - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins 1899 - Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th Americas Cup 1902 - The Chamber of Deputies appoints a committee to consider questions on the separation of Church and State in France 1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada 1906 - William Buck Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants), dies at 67 1906 - Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube) 1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York Dies (b. 1843) 1910 - 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series 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 1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2) 1918 - In order to secure an armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions 1920 - 1st Year with Frank Craven premieres in NYC 1922 - Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place 1924 - 1st Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0 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 1932 - Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS 1934 - All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan 1935 - Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up 1936 - Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL 1939 - All the Things You Are recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch 1939 - Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus 1941 - Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia 1942 - Durham Manifesto calls for fundamental changes in race relations 1944 - Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio explode, 135 die, 3,600 homeless 1944 - Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade 1944 - US 1st army wins battle of Aachen 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 ofNuremberg 1946 - Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants 1947 - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood 1947 - Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years 1947 - Robinson Jeffers Medea, premieres in NYC 1949 - Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark) 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 1952 - Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55 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 - Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan 1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, the 3rd and final volume of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien - 2nd best-selling novel 1956 - 58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high) 1956 - Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17 craft 1957 - Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary 1960 - 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI 1960 - Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager 1962 - Musical Mr President opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances 1963 - Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds 1964 - Golden Boy opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances 1964 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ 1964 - Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested) 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90 1965 - Beatles receive a gold record for Yesterday 1967 - All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi 1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin. 1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios 1970 - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1970 - Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return) 1971 - Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death opens at Barrymore for 325 per 1971 - Senator in the US Congress Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland 1973 - Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in Have You Met Miss Dietz 1973 - OPEC oil embargo begins 1973 - President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st half century 1973 - Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty 1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House 1973 - US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox 1973 - The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass 1974 - Bards presentation of Richard III opens at Lincoln Center NYC 1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning 1976 - 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince 1976 - NY Nets Julius Dr J Erving sold to Phila 76ers 1977 - David Mamets Life in the Theater, premieres in NYC 1977 - Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons Dracula, premieres in NYC 1977 - Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McComb, Mississippi including band members Ronnie Vanzant, Steve Gains, Cassie Gaines and Dean kilpatrick 1978 - Polices 1st US concert (NYs CBGBs) 1978 - US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2 1979 - Bob Dylan appears on Saturday Night Live 1979 - John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston 1979 - John Tate beats Gerrie Coetzee in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1981 - 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99 1981 - 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery 1982 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland As 1982 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler 1983 - IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released 1984 - Islanders Mike Bossys 30th career hat trick-4 goals 1987 - 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis 1987 - Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts /608,120,000 shares traded (record) 1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail 1988 - Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football for personal reasons 1988 - Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC) 1989 - US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings 1989 - Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76 1990 - Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84 1990 - 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida 1990 - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq) 1991 - Andre Hellers Wonderhouse opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 perfs 1991 - Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo 1991 - Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black 1992 - 1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta 1993 - Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m 1993 - James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy), dies at 66 1993 - Maurice Dolbier, US actor/writer (Nowhere near Everest), dies at 81 1993 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909) 1994 - Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80 1995 - Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53 1995 - Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83 1995 - STS 73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit 1996 - Summer & Smoke closes at Criterion Theater NYC 1996 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Womens Golf 1997 - US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers 2001 - Actor Johnathon Schaech (32) weds actress Christina Applegate (29) at the three-acre Cree Estate in Palm Springs, California 2003 - Jack Elam, American actor dies (b. 1918) 2004 - Boston Red Sox come back from 0-3 to defeat the New York Yankees 4-3 to win baseballs American League 2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer dies (b. 1934) 2006 - Liberty X member Michelle Heaton (27) weds Pop Idols Andy Scott-Lee (26) in Hertfordshire, England 2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress, dies at 96 2010 - Bob Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse magazine), dies at 79 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. 2012 - Clueless actress Elisa Donovan (41) weds Charlie Bigelow (36) on a outdoor ceremony on the Vineyard Lawn at The Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel, California 2013 - Singer Kelly Clarkson (31) weds talent manager Brandon Blackstock at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee 2013 - Actor Rider Strong (33) weds actress Alexandra Barreto (31) in Oregon BIRTHDAY ON OCTOBER 20th 1812 - Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer 1819 - Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1914 1820 - Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) 1820 - George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 1822 - Mansfield Lovell, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 1823 - Thomas Hughes, England, author (Tom Browns School Days) 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations) 1859 - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) 1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951) 1871 - Frederick Burton, IN, actor (One Way Passage) 1874 - Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holiday Quick Step)r 1882 - Bela Lugosi [Blaskó ], Lugos, Austria-Hungary, actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space) 1884 - Thomas Chalmers, NYC, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage) 1887 - Addison Richards, Zanesville OH, actor (Pentagon, Fighting Seabees) 1889 - Margaret Dumont, actress-Marx Brothers foil (Day at the Races) 1890 - Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans, jazz pianist/composer 1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist (discovered neutron) 1895 - Rex Ingram, US actor (Tarzan of the Apes, 10 Commandments) 1896 - Nat Holman, basketball coach (CCNY) 1903 - John Lodge, Washington DC, actor (Witchmaker) 1904 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986) 1904 - Tommy Douglas, Falkirk Scotland, Canadian politician (Father of Medicare) 1907 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001) 1911 - Will Rogers Jr, NY, actor (Down to Earth) 1913 - Barney Phillips, St Louis Mo, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad) 1913 - Grandpa [Louis M] Jones, Niagra KY, country musician (Hee-Haw) 1914 - Fayard Nicholas, US, actor (Big Broadcast of 1936) 1922 - John Anderson, Clayton Ill, actor (Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp) 1923 - Herschel Bernardi, actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front) 1923 - Robert Craft, Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower 1925 - Art Buchwald, Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You) 1927 - Joyce Brothers, NYC, pop psychologist ($64,000 Question, Naked Gun), (d. 2013) 1931 - Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown) 1932 - William Christopher, Evanstown Ill, actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H) 1934 - Martin Landau, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood) 1934 - Michael Dunn, Shattuck OK, actor (House of the Damned, Ship of Fools) 1935 - Jerry Ohrbach, Bronx NY, actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing) 1937 - Juan Marichal, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (SF Giants) 1937 - Wanda Jackson, Maud Oklahoma, country singer (Lets Have a Party) 1939 - Jay Siegel, Bkln, rock bassist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight) 1940 - Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1942 - Earl Hindman, Bisbee AZ, actor (Wilson-Home Improvement) 1944 - William Hugh Albright, composer 1945 - Ric Lee, rock drummer (Ten Years After-Cannock, Staffs) 1946 - Connie Chung, Washington DC, news ancher (NBC, CBS) 1950 - Tom Petty, Gainesville Florida, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) 1951 - Al Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time) 1952 - Melanie Mayron, Phila, actress (30 Something, Car Wash, Missing) 1953 - Keith Hernandez, MLB 1st baseman (St Louis Cardinals, NY Mets) 1955 - Thomas Newman, American composer 1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer 1958 - Eric Scott, Hollywood California, actor (Ben-Waltons) 1958 - Mark King, bass/vocalist (Level 42-Standing in the Light, Love Games) 1958 - Ricky Byrd, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts) 1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author 1959 - Razor Ramon, [Scott Hall], wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA/Florida/AWA/KC) 1962 - Steven R Randy Jackson, US percussionist/singer (Enjoy Yourself) 1963 - Julie Payette, Montreal Quebec, astronaut 1965 - Amos Mansdorf, lsrael, tennis star 1969 - Juan Gonzalez, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Texas Rangers) 1970 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler 1971 - Kimberly Po, Los Angeles California, tennis star (1991 Futures-Evansville IN) 1971 - Snoop Dogg [Calvin Broadus], Long Beach, California, rapper (Whats My Name, Gin & Juice) 1972 - Dexter Coakley, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys) 1972 - Oleg Fediukov, Moscow Russia, dance skater (& Debbie Koegel) 1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)r 1978 - Paul Wilson, Irish bass player (Snow Patrol) 1978 - Michael Johns, American Idol (season 7) finalist 1979 - John Krasinski, American actor
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