On October 20...
1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase
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
1864 - Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a natl 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 opens1883 - Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed
1908 - King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
1911 - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
1920 - Raymond Edward Tichacek born, St. Louis Missouri.
1935 - Mao Tse Tung & his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China
1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings.
1957 - Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
1963 - S Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy
1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
1971 - Snoop Doggy Dogg, [Calvin Broadus], rap singer born
1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House
1984 - The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
Today would have been my father's 90th birthday.
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