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This week in History
October 20
1904 Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the
Pacific. The treaty recognizes Chile’s possession of the coast,
but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz,
Bolivia, to Arica, on the coast.
1938 Czechoslovakia, complying with Nazi policy, outlaws
the Communist Party and begins persecuting Jews.
1941 German troops reach the approaches to Moscow.
1945 Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League
to present a unified front against the establishment of a
Jewish state in Palestine.
1947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opens
public hearings on alleged communist infiltration in
Hollywood. Among those denounced as having unAmerican tendencies are: Katherine Hepburn, Charles
Chaplin and Edward G. Robinson. Among those called to
testify is Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan, who
denies that leftists ever controlled the Guild and refuses to
label anyone a communist.
1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
1973 Arab oil-producing nations ban oil exports to the
United States, following the outbreak of Arab-Israeli war.
1977 Charter plane crashes in Mississippi, killing three
members of popular Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd,
along with their assistant road manager, the pilot and copilot.
1991 Oakland Hills firestorm destroys nearly 3,500 homes
and apartments and kills 25 people.
2011 In the Libyan civil war, rebels capture deposed dictator
Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, killing him
soon afterward.
Born on October 20
1632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer and architect.
1884 Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born film actor famous for his
portrayal of Count Dracula (1931).
1891 Sir James Chadwick, physicist who won the Nobel
Prize for discovering the neutron.
1901 Adelaide Hall, cabaret singer.
1925 Art Buchwald, humorist.
1931 Mickey Mantle, baseball great who played for the New
York Yankees
1932 Michael McClure, beat poet.
1948 Tom Petty, singer, songwriter, musician; lead singer for
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a founder of the
Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch bands; inducted into
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2002.
1971 Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus, Jr.), rapper, songwriter,
actor; his debut album, Doggy style, came in at No. 1 on the
Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot R&B / Hip-Hop charts.
October 21
1805 Vice Admiral and Viscount Horatio Nelson wins his
greatest victory over a Franco-Spanish fleet in the Battle of
Trafalgar, fought off Cape Trafalgar, Spain. Nelson is fatally
wounded in the battle, but lives long enough to see victory.
1879 After 14 months of testing, Thomas Edison first
demonstrates his electric lamp, hoping to one day compete
with gaslight.
1939 As war heats up with Germany, the British war cabinet
holds its first meeting in the underground war room in
London.
1940 Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is
published.
1942 Eight American and British officers land from a
submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy
French to the Operation Torch landings.
1961 Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a
cost of $400.
1967 The "March on the Pentagon," protesting American
involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters.
1969 Israel’s Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan resigns over
disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over
policies related to the Palestinians.
1983 The United States sends a ten-ship task force to
Grenada.
1994 North Korea and the US sign an agreement requiring
North Korea to halts its nuclear weapons program and agree
to international inspections.
Born on October 21
1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet ("The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan").
1833 Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the
Nobel Prizes.
1917 Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter.
1929 Ursula K. Le Guin, science fiction writer (The Left Hand
of Darkness)
1950 Ronald McNair, astronaut; died when Space Shuttle
Challenger exploded shortly after launch on Jan. 2, 1986.
1952 Patti Davis, actress, author; daughter of former US
Pres. Ronald Reagan.
1956 Carrie Fisher, actress, author, screenwriter; best known
as Prince Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and he
bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge; daughter of
singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds.
1969 Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown
Prince of Bahrain; presently (2013) First Deputy Prime
Minister and Deputy Supreme Commander, he is heir
apparent to the Bahrain kingdom.
October 22
1797 The first successful parachute descent is made by
Andre-Jacqes Garnerin, who jumps from a balloon at some
2,200 feet over Paris.
1918 The cities of Baltimore and Washington run out of
coffins during the "Spanish Inflenza" epidemic.
1938 Chester Carlson invents the photocopier. He tries to
sell the machine to IBM, RCA, Kodak and others, but they see
no use for a gadget that makes nothing but copies.
1955 The prototype of the F-105 Thunder Chief makes its
maiden flight.
1962 U.S. reveals Soviet missile sites in Cuba. President
Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade on further
shipment of military equipment to Cuba. Following a
confrontation that threatens nuclear war, Kennedy and
Khrushchev agree on October 28 on a formula to end the
crisis. On November 2 Kennedy reports that Soviet missile
bases in Cuba are being dismantled.
1964 Jean Paul Satre declines the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 12 for orbit around
the moon
1972 Operation Linebacker I, the bombing of North
Vietnam with B-52 bombers , ends.
1978 Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II; born Karol
Jozef Wojtyla. The Polish-born Wojtyla was the first nonItalian pope since Pope Adrian VI died in 1523; he would
become the second-longest serving pope in the history of
the Papacy and exercise considerable influence on events of
the later portion of the 20th century.
2005 Tropical Storm Alpha forms, making 2005 the most
active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named
storms.
Born on October 22
1811 Franz Liszt, piano virtuoso.
1882 N.C. Wyeth, painter famous for his illustrations of
Treasure Island and Robin Hood.
1887 John Reed, American journalist, poet and
revolutionary, (Ten Days That Shook the World).
1903 George Beadle, American geneticist.
1919 Doris Lessing, novelist (Children of Violence, The
Golden Notebook).
1920 Timothy Leary, American psychologist who
experimented with psychedelic drugs.
1938 Christopher Lloyd, actor; (Back to the Future Film
series; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; won three Emmys, two of
them for his role as Jim Ignatoski in Taxi TV series).
1939 Joaquim Chissano, second President of Mozambique
(1986–2005); credited with transforming Mozambique into
one of Africa’s most successful democracies.
1948 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, unsuccessfully attempted
to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford on Sept. 5, 1975.
1952 Jeff Goldblum, actor (Jurassic Park; Independence
Day).
October 23
1918 President Wilson feels satisfied that the Germans are
accepting his armistice terms and agrees to transmit their
request for an armistice to the Allies. The Germans have
agreed to suspend submarine warfare, cease inhumane
practices such as the use of poison gas, and withdraw troops
back into Germany.