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Notable anniversaries in history for today: October 20
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Charles Edward Ives in Danbury, Connecticut, USA; composer (Holliday Quick Step).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Martin Landau; actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Tucker).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Timothy West in Yorkshire, England; actor (Masada).
- 80th: 1944 - 30 blocks of Cleveland, Ohio, USA burn after a liquid gas factory explodes.
- 80th: 1944 - Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala.
- 80th: 1944 - American General Douglas MacArthur and 200,000 troops begin amphibious landings on Leyte in the central Philippines.
- 70th: 1954 - Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 1939, 1940), dies at age 51.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of David Ryan; rock musician (The Lemonheads).
- 60th: 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st president of US, dies in New York at age 90.
- 60th: 1964 - Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris, France (150 arrested).
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902).
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1896).
- 40th: 1984 - New York Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals.
- 30th: 1994 - In Coleman, Michigan, USA a meteorite penetrates the roof of a house.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Burt Lancaster of a heart attack at age 80 after a heart attack; American actor (On Wings of Eagles, Marco Polo, Verdi, Moses the Lawgiver).
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Jack Lynch, Prime Minister of Ireland (born 1917).
- 20th: 2004 - Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Missouri, killing 13 people and injuring two.
- 20th: 2004 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono becomes the first directly-elected President of Indonesia.
- 20th: 2004 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the New York Yankees 10-3 in Game 7 of the Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series to win the series 4 games to 3. The Boston Red Sox become the first team in baseball history to come back from a 0-3 deficit to win a series. Overcoming a 3-0 series deficit has only happened twice previously in all of professional sports.
- 15th: 2009 - A national election is held in Niger, won by President Mamadou Tandja's party with 76 of 113 seats. The election was boycotted by the opposition in protest against changes to the constitution allowing the president to stand for a third term.
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