This Day In History
October 20
Congress creates the Continental Association U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Controversial Union General Daniel Sickles is born Battle of Navarino French poet Arthur Rimbaud is born Turks send British officer to negotiate armistice terms Mao's Long March concludes Natural gas explosions rock Cleveland MacArthur returns U.S. forces land at Leyte Island in the Philippines The Red Scare comes to Hollywood Congress investigates Reds in Hollywood Kennedy press secretary misleads press Relations between South Vietnam, the United States, and Cambodia deteriorate Last Volvo PV rolls off the assembly line Fosbury flops to an Olympic record Watergate special prosecutor dismissed Sydney Opera House opens Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash 2 Live Crew members are acquitted of obscenity charges Burt Lancaster dies Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi is Killed
Congress creates the Continental Association U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Controversial Union General Daniel Sickles is born Battle of Navarino French poet Arthur Rimbaud is born Turks send British officer to negotiate armistice terms Mao's Long March concludes Natural gas explosions rock Cleveland MacArthur returns U.S. forces land at Leyte Island in the Philippines The Red Scare comes to Hollywood Congress investigates Reds in Hollywood Kennedy press secretary misleads press Relations between South Vietnam, the United States, and Cambodia deteriorate Last Volvo PV rolls off the assembly line Fosbury flops to an Olympic record Watergate special prosecutor dismissed Sydney Opera House opens Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash 2 Live Crew members are acquitted of obscenity charges Burt Lancaster dies Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi is Killed
