- 1944] 'I Shall Return': Those were the words uttered by General Douglas MacArthur when he stepped ashore in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after he made the famous quote...
- 1968] Wedding Bells: Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis...
- 1973] Nixon cans Cox: Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is fired by President Richard Nixon. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resign in protest...
- 1976] No more house calls in New York: The Nets sell Julius "Dr. J" Erving to the Philadelphia 76ers...
- 1977] Rock & Roll tragedy: Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb (MS)...
- 1979] JFK remembered: The John F. Kennedy Library opens in Boston...
- 1992] The World Series in Canada, eh?: In the first WS game to be played outside the U.S., Toronto beats Atlanta 3-2...
- 2004] Down but never out: The Red Sox come from a 3 game deficit to win 4 straight over the Yankees to win the AL pennant. They go on to win the World Series too...
- 2004] Chipped: U.S. Army staff sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick pleads quilty to helping plan the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Arfrica in 1998 that killed 224 including 12 Americans...
- 2005] The defense rests forever: A defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's mass murder trial is abducted from his office and found murdered hours later...For more on October 20:
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