October 20

October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining.

Events:

1600 - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's shoguns
1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria
1803 - United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
1827 - Battle of Navarino - a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.
1935 - The Long March ends
1944 - The Soviet army captures Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood
1973 - "Saturday Night Massacre": Watergate scandal special prosecutor Archibald Cox is fired by United States Solicitor General Robert Bork; Attorney General Elliot Richardson[?] resigns, and his deputy is fired, because they refuse to fire Cox
1973 - The Sydney Opera House opens
1977 - A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing several band members, including lead singer/guitarist Ronnie Van Zandt

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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