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| October 20 is the 294th day of the year. There are 72 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1774 Continental Congress discourages entertainment...for fear of competition |
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| 1873 P. T. Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth" opens (New York City) |
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| 1935 400,000 demonstrate against fascism in Madrid -- for all the good it does. . . |
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| 1944 General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War. |
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| 1955 Ira Levin's "No Time for Sergeants" premieres in New York starring Andy Griffith |
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| 1967 A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin. |
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| 1973 The Saturday Night Massacre: President Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork. The Senate gets its revenge against Bork later |
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| 1975 Supreme Court rules teachers can spank their pupils after warning |
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| 1977 A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, just short of sweet home Alabama for lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot. |
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| 1997 U.S. accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers |
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| 1917 Jean-Pierre Melville [Grumbach], maybe gay French film director |
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| 1918 Anton Diffring [Alfred Pollack], maybe gay German actor |
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| 1931 Mickey Mantle, US baseball great |
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| 1958 Viggo Mortensen, US actor |
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| 1961 Les Stroud, Canadian Survivorman/a frequent guest star in my fantasies |
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| 1971 Snoop Dogg [Calvin Broadus], US rapper/actor |
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| 1972 Will Greenwood, English rugger |
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| 1973 Kyle Bradford, gay US pornographic actor who claimed to bump nasties with Tom Cruise...Tom could’ve done much much better IMHO |
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| 1975 Olivier Sarramea, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model |
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| 1980 Alberto Amarilla, Spanish actor |
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| 1982 Jose Acasuso, Argentine tennis player |
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| 1988 Adam Butcher, Canadian actor |
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| 1994 Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), traverses the hallelujah trail |
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| 1995 Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), is howling at the moon |
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| 2011 Muammar Gaddafi, "Brother Leader" of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, gets no virgins in heaven |
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