Events that happened today in history, October 20th!

Here are some of the great historical events that happened today, October 20th, in history!

1587	In France, Huguenot Henri de Navarre routs Duke de Joyeuse’s larger Catholic force at Coutras.
1709	Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy take Mons in the Netherlands.
1714	George I of England crowned.
1803	The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1805	Austrian general Karl Mac surrenders to Napoleon’s army at the battle of Ulm.
1818	The United States and Britain establish the 49th Parallel as the boundary between Canada and the United States.
1870	The Summer Palace in Beijing, China, is burnt to the ground by a Franco-British expeditionary force.
1903	The Joint Commission, set up on January 24 by Great Britain and the United States to arbitrate the disputed Alaskan boundary, rules in favor of the United States. The deciding vote is Britain’s, which embitters Canada. The United States gains ports on the panhandle coast of Alaska.
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.
1924	Baseball’s first ‘colored World Series’ is held in Kansas City, Mo.
1931	Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Okla.
1938	Czechoslovakia, complying with Nazi policy, outlaws the Communist Party and begins persecuting Jews.
1941	German troops reach the approaches to Moscow.
1944	Gen. Douglas MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after he’d said, “I shall return.”
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 un-American 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.
1964	Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, died at age 90 in New York City.
1968	Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1973	Arab oil-producing nations ban oil exports to the United States, following the outbreak of Arab-Israeli war.
1977	Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Miss.
1992	The host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 in the first World Series game played outside the United States.
2000	Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who’d served in the Army, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

Events that happened today in history, October 20th!