Major Events
- 1097 The first Crusaders arrive in Antioch, Ancient Syria, during the First Crusade
- 1603 Chinese uprising in the Philippines fails after 23,000 people are killed
- 1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
- 1917 US suffragette Alice Paul begins a seven-month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the Women’s Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.
- 1935 Communist forces end their Long March at Yan’an in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence
- 1944 US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th Army on Leyte
- 2020 US Justice Department sues Google for an illegal monopoly over search and search advertising
Oct 20 in Film & TV
- 1998 Comedian Richard Pryor receives the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Oct 20 in Music
Oct 20 in Sport
- 1973 US President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe to have been the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century
Fun Fact About October 20
A purported Bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek in Northern California by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin
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