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October 20 in recent years ... designed the Natural History Museum of Basel (d. 1854) 1808 – Karl Andree, ... "Historical Events on October 20". OnThisDay.com.
This is a list of selected October 20 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks Hamas reports that the number of dead and missing following an Israeli bombardment of residential areas in northern Gaza yesterday increases to 87, becoming among the highest single-incident death tolls in the past few months and also prompting condemnation from the United Nations .
A court in Peru sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in prison for receiving bribes. (Reuters) Five members of a family, including three teenagers, are killed in a mass shooting in Fall City , Washington , United States .
MLS Cup 1996 was the inaugural edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer, the top-level soccer league of the United States. Hosted at Foxboro Stadium (pictured) in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on October 20, 1996, it was contested by D.C. United and the Los Angeles Galaxy to decide the champion of the 1996 season.
The organization Job's Daughters International, for young women 10 to 20 years of age, was founded as The Order of Job's Daughters by Ethel T. Wead Mick in Omaha, Nebraska, on October 20, 1920. Born: Janet Jagan, president of Guyana from 1997 to 1999 and former Prime Minister of Guyana in 1997; as Janet Rosenberg in Chicago (d. 2009)
October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election. The Republican majority fails to deliver enough votes for Jim Jordan to become House Speaker on the third vote, with Jordan also losing a subsequent secret ballot among Republican members, thereby ending his nomination.
October 20 – Valeriano Weyler, 1st Duke of Rubí, Spanish general (b. 1838) [433] October 26 – Harry Payne Whitney, American horse breeder and businessman (b. 1872) [434] October 27 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851) [435] October 28 – Mary Harrison McKee, de facto First Lady of the United States (b. 1858) [436]