October 20
1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1944 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines, 30 months after he said "I shall return."
1947 - The U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee opened meetings about alleged Communist infiltration in the Hollywood film industry.
1964 - Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, died in New York City at age 90.
1967 - A jury in Meridian, Mississippi, convicted seven men of violating the civil rights of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner; the seven received prison terms ranging from 3 to 10 years.
1968 - Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1973 - During the Watergate scandal, Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resigned and special prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed by President Richard Nixon in what came to be known as the "Saturday Night Massacre."
1976 - 78 people were killed when the Norwegian tanker Frosta rammed the commuter ferry George Prince on the Mississippi River near New Orleans.
1977 - Three members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, were killed along with three others in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Mississippi.
1979 - The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated in Boston.
1990 - Three members of the rap group "2 Live Crew" were acquitted by a jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida of violating obscenity laws with an adults-only concert in nearby Hollywood the previous June.
2001 - Officials announced that anthrax had been discovered in a House postal facility on Capitol Hill.
2004 - A U.S. Army staff sergeant, Ivan “Chip” Frederick, pleaded guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. (Frederick was sentenced to eight years in prison; he was paroled in 2007.)
2011 - Moammar Gadhafi, 69, Libya’s dictator for 42 years, was killed as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Sirte and captured the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell.
2017 - The U.S. government said 24 of its workers had now been confirmed to be victims of invisible attacks in Cuba.
2018 - Saudi Arabia announced that U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been killed in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul; there was immediate international skepticism over the Saudi account that Khashoggi had died during a “fistfight.” (A U.S. intelligence report later concluded that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman had likely approved Khashoggi’s killing by a team of Saudi security and intelligence officials.)
2020 - Two weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump called on Attorney General William Barr to immediately launch an investigation into unverified claims about Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter, effectively demanding that the Justice Department abandon its historic resistance to getting involved in elections.
2021 - Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people during a February, 2018, rampage at his former high school in Parkland, Florida. (A jury would spare Cruz from the death penalty, instead sending him to prison for life.)
2021 - Nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump said he was launching a new media company with its own social media platform.
Birthdays
34 - Candice Swanepoel (model)
37 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman (actress)
40 - Katie Featherston (actress)
43 - John Krasinski (actor)
45 - Sam Witwer (actor)
46 - Dan Fogler (actor/comedian)
51 - Dannii Minogue (singer)
51 - Snoop Dogg (rapper)
51 - Kenneth Choi (actor)
52 - Michelle Malkin (political commentator)
54 - Sunny Hostin (TV host)
58 - Kamala Harris (vice president of the United States)
69 - Keith Hernandez (baseball player)
72 - William "Rusty" Russ (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 20
1894 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 22-0.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Drake 8-0.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Lincoln Medics 29-0 in an exhibition game.
1906 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 14-2.
1917 - Nebraska defeats Notre Dame 7-0.
1923 - Nebraska and Kansas play to a 0-0 tie.
1928 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 7-6.
1934 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 6-0.
1936 - The Associated Press released its first weekly college football poll. Minnesota was ranked first.
1945 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 27-7.
1951 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 39-20.
1956 - Indiana defeats Nebraska 19-14.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 26-6.
1963 - Clem Daniels (Oakland Raiders) ran for 200 yards and two touchdowns in a 49-26 victory over the New York Jets.
1973 - #11 Nebraska defeats #18 Kansas 10-9.
1976 - Julius "Dr. J" Erving is sold from the New York Nets to the Philadelphia 76ers.
1979 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 36-0.
1982 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games to win the World Series.
1982 - In Moscow, 340 people were crushed to death at a Soviet-Dutch soccer game. Police had herded the fans down an open, icy staircase. The details of the incident were not published in the USSR until seven years later.
1984 - #5 Nebraska defeats Colorado 24-7.
1988 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Oakland Athletics in five games to win the World Series.
1989 - The Houston Cougars ran up 1,021 yards against Southern Methodist University. The final score was 95-21.
1990 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 31-3.
1990 - The Cincinnati Reds swept the Oakland Athletics to win the World Series.
1996 - Andruw Jones (Atlanta Braves), nineteen years old, became the youngest player to hit a home run in the World Series. He hit two home runs against the New York Yankees.
2001 - #3 Nebraska defeats Texas Tech 41-31.
2004 - The Boston Red Sox rallied from a 3-0 series deficit to win four straight to defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the American League pennant.
2007 - Texas A&M defeats Nebraska 36-14.
2012 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 29-28.
2018 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 53-28.
2021 - A federal court filing revealed that the NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired players had reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia testing in a $1 billion settlement of concussion claims.
1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1944 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines, 30 months after he said "I shall return."
1947 - The U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee opened meetings about alleged Communist infiltration in the Hollywood film industry.
1964 - Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, died in New York City at age 90.
1967 - A jury in Meridian, Mississippi, convicted seven men of violating the civil rights of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner; the seven received prison terms ranging from 3 to 10 years.
1968 - Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1973 - During the Watergate scandal, Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resigned and special prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed by President Richard Nixon in what came to be known as the "Saturday Night Massacre."
1976 - 78 people were killed when the Norwegian tanker Frosta rammed the commuter ferry George Prince on the Mississippi River near New Orleans.
1977 - Three members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, were killed along with three others in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Mississippi.
1979 - The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated in Boston.
1990 - Three members of the rap group "2 Live Crew" were acquitted by a jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida of violating obscenity laws with an adults-only concert in nearby Hollywood the previous June.
2001 - Officials announced that anthrax had been discovered in a House postal facility on Capitol Hill.
2004 - A U.S. Army staff sergeant, Ivan “Chip” Frederick, pleaded guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. (Frederick was sentenced to eight years in prison; he was paroled in 2007.)
2011 - Moammar Gadhafi, 69, Libya’s dictator for 42 years, was killed as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Sirte and captured the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell.
2017 - The U.S. government said 24 of its workers had now been confirmed to be victims of invisible attacks in Cuba.
2018 - Saudi Arabia announced that U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been killed in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul; there was immediate international skepticism over the Saudi account that Khashoggi had died during a “fistfight.” (A U.S. intelligence report later concluded that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman had likely approved Khashoggi’s killing by a team of Saudi security and intelligence officials.)
2020 - Two weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump called on Attorney General William Barr to immediately launch an investigation into unverified claims about Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter, effectively demanding that the Justice Department abandon its historic resistance to getting involved in elections.
2021 - Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people during a February, 2018, rampage at his former high school in Parkland, Florida. (A jury would spare Cruz from the death penalty, instead sending him to prison for life.)
2021 - Nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump said he was launching a new media company with its own social media platform.
Birthdays
34 - Candice Swanepoel (model)
37 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman (actress)
40 - Katie Featherston (actress)
43 - John Krasinski (actor)
45 - Sam Witwer (actor)
46 - Dan Fogler (actor/comedian)
51 - Dannii Minogue (singer)
51 - Snoop Dogg (rapper)
51 - Kenneth Choi (actor)
52 - Michelle Malkin (political commentator)
54 - Sunny Hostin (TV host)
58 - Kamala Harris (vice president of the United States)
69 - Keith Hernandez (baseball player)
72 - William "Rusty" Russ (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 20
1894 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 22-0.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Drake 8-0.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Lincoln Medics 29-0 in an exhibition game.
1906 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 14-2.
1917 - Nebraska defeats Notre Dame 7-0.
1923 - Nebraska and Kansas play to a 0-0 tie.
1928 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 7-6.
1934 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 6-0.
1936 - The Associated Press released its first weekly college football poll. Minnesota was ranked first.
1945 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 27-7.
1951 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 39-20.
1956 - Indiana defeats Nebraska 19-14.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 26-6.
1963 - Clem Daniels (Oakland Raiders) ran for 200 yards and two touchdowns in a 49-26 victory over the New York Jets.
1973 - #11 Nebraska defeats #18 Kansas 10-9.
1976 - Julius "Dr. J" Erving is sold from the New York Nets to the Philadelphia 76ers.
1979 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 36-0.
1982 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games to win the World Series.
1982 - In Moscow, 340 people were crushed to death at a Soviet-Dutch soccer game. Police had herded the fans down an open, icy staircase. The details of the incident were not published in the USSR until seven years later.
1984 - #5 Nebraska defeats Colorado 24-7.
1988 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Oakland Athletics in five games to win the World Series.
1989 - The Houston Cougars ran up 1,021 yards against Southern Methodist University. The final score was 95-21.
1990 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 31-3.
1990 - The Cincinnati Reds swept the Oakland Athletics to win the World Series.
1996 - Andruw Jones (Atlanta Braves), nineteen years old, became the youngest player to hit a home run in the World Series. He hit two home runs against the New York Yankees.
2001 - #3 Nebraska defeats Texas Tech 41-31.
2004 - The Boston Red Sox rallied from a 3-0 series deficit to win four straight to defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the American League pennant.
2007 - Texas A&M defeats Nebraska 36-14.
2012 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 29-28.
2018 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 53-28.
2021 - A federal court filing revealed that the NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired players had reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia testing in a $1 billion settlement of concussion claims.
