Notable Historical Events on October 20th
October 20th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1097 |
1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch (First Crusade) |
1528 |
Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor & church) |
1536 |
Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions |
1576 |
Spanish troops occupies & plunder Maastricht |
1587 |
Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League |
1600 |
Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns) |
1603 |
Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed |
1634 |
English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax |
1714 |
Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I |
1740 |
Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia |
1751 |
Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort |
1774 |
Continental Congress orders discouragment 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 |
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 |
1822 |
1st edition of London Sunday Times |
1827 |
Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russ/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet |
1833 |
Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana |
1835 |
HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti |
1843 |
1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname |
1847 |
Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa |
1856 |
Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens |
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) |
1877 |
Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres |
1880 |
Amsterdam Free University opens |
1883 |
Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed |
1883 |
Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile |
1888 |
Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ |
1889 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," premieres in Berlin |
1891 |
1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins |
1898 |
NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms |
1899 |
Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers |
1899 |
Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's 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 |
1904 |
Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific; it recognizes Chile's possession of the coast, but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica on the coast |
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) |
1908 |
King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium |
1910 |
1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series |
1910 |
Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar |
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 |
1929 |
Bayshore Highway opens (SF) |
1930 |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio |
1930 |
British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land |
1931 |
Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP |
1932 |
Journalist Robert Trout joins CBS |
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 |
Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels |
1935 |
Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up |
1935 |
Communist forces end their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China bringing Mao Zedong to prominence |
1936 |
Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL |
1936 |
Spanish government moves to Barcelona |
1939 |
"All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch |
1939 |
Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus |
1940 |
Cheese rationed in Netherlands |
1940 |
Greenhouse rationing begins in Netherlands |
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 |
Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala |
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 Jeffer's "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 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya |
1953 |
WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
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 |
Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt |
1957 |
Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary |
1959 |
Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise |
1959 |
WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast |
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 |
1962 |
Chinese army lands in India |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1963 |
Alec Douglas-Home forms British government |
1963 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1963 |
Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds |
1963 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open |
1963 |
South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy |
1963 |
WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
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) |
1965 |
19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal |
1965 |
Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday" |
1965 |
Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia |
1967 |
All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi |
1967 |
Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland A's |
1967 |
KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin. |
1968 |
"Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 perfs |
1968 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
1968 |
Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4) |
1969 |
WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
1970 |
Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return) |
1971 |
"Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" opens at Barrymore for 325 per |
1971 |
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1971 |
The Nepal stock exchange collapses. |
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 |
1972 |
Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia |
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 ½ century |
1973 |
Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House |
1973 |
US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox |
1973 |
Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned |
1973 |
The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass |
1974 |
1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF |
1974 |
Bard's 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 Mamet's "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 |
Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government |
1978 |
Police's 1st US concert (NY's 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 Coetze 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 |
1981 |
Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured |
1982 |
Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's |
1982 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler |
1982 |
Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected |
1982 |
St Louis Cards beat Milwaukee Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series |
1982 |
During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. |
1983 |
IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released |
1984 |
Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed |
1984 |
Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals |
1984 |
The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California. |
1986 |
Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa |
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 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila |
1988 |
Britain ends suspects' right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA |
1988 |
Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons" |
1988 |
LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's in baseball's 85th World Series 4 games to 1 |
1988 |
Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC) |
1988 |
Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated |
1989 |
Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin |
1989 |
US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings |
1990 |
3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida |
1990 |
Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq) |
1990 |
Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in 86th World Series |
1991 |
"Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 perfs |
1991 |
6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die |
1991 |
Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo |
1992 |
1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta |
1992 |
David Houghton scores Zimbabwe's 1st Test hundred (121 v India, debut) |
1992 |
Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia, Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria |
1993 |
Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m |
1995 |
STS 73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit |
1995 |
Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final |
1996 |
"Summer & Smoke" closes at Criterion Theater NYC |
1996 |
Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf |
1996 |
Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series |
1996 |
Wasim Akram & Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt |
1996 |
Wasim Akram scores cricket 257 v Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura, 12 sixes |
1997 |
Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty |
1997 |
US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers |
2004 |
Boston Red Sox come back from 0-3 to defeat the New York Yankees 4-3 to win baseball's American League |
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. |
2013 |
30 people are killed by a suicide truck bomber in Hama, Syria |
2013 |
37 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq |
2013 |
78 people are killed by cattle raiders in Jonglei, Sudan |
2014 |
Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia |
2016 |
Super Typhoon Haima: Philippines evacuates thousands in storm's path |
2017 |
Dodgers beat Cubs in Game Five to reach World Series |
2017 |
California Dept of Insurance estimates wildfires losses at $1.05 billion |
2017 |
7000 buildings destroyed in deadly California wildfires |
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