About October 20

October 20, 2022 is the 293rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 72 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 94 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On October 20

  • 1548 –
    The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
  • 1720 –
    Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
  • 1781 –
    Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
  • 1873 –
    Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
  • 1883 –
    Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru’s involvement in the War of the Pacific.
  • 1910 –
    The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • 1917 –
    The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
  • 1935 –
    The Long March ends.
  • 1939 –
    Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus.
  • 1944 –
    General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
  • 1951 –
    The “Johnny Bright Incident” occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
  • 1961 –
    The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf class submarine.
  • 1962 –
    China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, beginning the Sino-Indian War.
  • 1968 –
    Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
  • 1970 –
    Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
  • 1971 –
    The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
  • 1977 –
    A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.
  • 1981 –
    Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, NY, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
  • 1982 –
    During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
  • 1991 –
    A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.

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