On This Day:
Sunday October 20, 2013 This is the 293rd day of the year, with 72 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: gold Gold has unique qualities which make it one of the most valuable metals to humans. The content of gold alloys is expressed in 24ths, called karats. Pure gold is 24-karat gold, 12-karat gold is 50% gold, and 18-karat gold is 75% gold. Fort Knox has an estimated 147.3 million ounces of gold. The size of a standard gold bar is 7" x 3 5/8" x 1 3/4"; its weight is approximately 400 oz., or 27.5 lbs.
Holidays Feast day of St. Artemius, St. Andrew the Calybite of Crete, St. Caprasius of Agen, St. Bertilla Boscardin, and St. Acca.
Guatemala: Revolution Day.
Kenya: Kenyatta Day.
1992 - In the first World Series to be played outside the United States, the host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves with a 4-3 series victory.
Events 1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase Treaty.
1818 - Great Britain and the United States signed a diplomatic convention, which established a boundary between the United States and British Canada along the forty-ninth parallel.
1822 - "The Sunday Times" was first published in England.
1827 - The Battle of Navarino, off the coast of Greece, ended with the combined British, French, and Russian fleets completely destroying the Egyptian and Turkish fleets.
1903 - The Joint Commission set up by Great Britain and the United States to arbitrate the disputed Alaskan boundary, ruled in favor of the United States.
1904 - Bolivia and Chile signed a treaty ending the War of the Pacific.
1935 - Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi in northwest China with 8,000 survivors, and set up Chinese Communist headquarters. His Long March took a little over a year.
1944 - U.S. troops landed at Leyte, in the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur returned as promised in 1942.
1945 - Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon formed the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into Communist infiltration in the film industry. Among those denounced as having un-American tendencies are: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Chaplin, and Edward G. Robinson.
1968 - Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of John F. Kennedy, married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1973 - In the so-called "Saturday Night Massacre," special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resigned.
1973 - After fifteen years of construction, the Sydney Opera House, designed by Danish architect John Utzon, was officially opened .
1973 - "The Six Million Dollar Man" premiered on TV.
1992 - In the first World Series to be played outside the United States, the host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves with a 4-3 series victory.
2000 - Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
2004 - U.S. Army staff sergeant, Ivan "Chip" Frederick, pleaded guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.
Births 1632 - Sir Christopher Wren, British astronomer and architect.
1859 - John Dewey, American psychologist, philosopher, and educational reformer.
1888 - Bela Lugosi (Blasko), Hungarian actor.
1905 - Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay), American author of mystery series.
1925 - Art Buchwald, American columnist and author.
1931 - Mickey Mantle, American record-holding baseball Hall-of-Famer.
1953 - Tom Petty, American singer and songwriter.
1971 - Snoop Dogg, MC in the West Coast hip hop scene.
Deaths 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States of America.
1977 - Three members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines) die in a plane crash Mississippi.
1994 - Burt Lancaster, American film actor.
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