10-19-2011, 08:10 PM
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October 20th
1740 ~ Maria Theresa took the throne of Austria.
1803 ~ The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1882 ~ Birthday of Bela Lugosi, Actor.
1893 ~ Birthday of Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya.
1973 ~ In the “Saturday Night Massacre”, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor, accepted the resignation of the Attorney General, and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus.
1973 ~ The Sydney Opera House opened.
1983 ~ Grenada's Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, was assassinated.
1984 ~ Death of Paul Dirac, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933.
1989 ~ Death of Anthony Quayle, English actor (The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia, Anne of the Thousand Days).
1992 ~ The Toronto Blue Jays win the first World Series game outside the U.S.
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