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October 20
480 BC   Greeks defeat the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis.
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.
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.
1938   Czechoslovakia, complying with Nazi policy, outlaws the Communist Party and begins persecuting Jews.
1940   German troops reach the approaches to Moscow.
1944   U.S. troops and on Leyte in the Philippines, keeping General MacArthur's pledge "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.
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.


Born on October 20
1632   Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer and architect.
1854   Arthur Rimbaud, poet.
1874   Charles Ives, composer.
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 Mantel, baseball great who played for the New York Yankees
1932   Michael McClure, beat poet.
1940   Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate.
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