10-20-2006, 06:05 AM
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October 20th
1632 ~ Birthday of Sir Christopher Wren, Architect.
1740 ~ Maria Theresa took the throne of Austria.
1803 ~ The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1882 ~ Birthday of Bela Lugosi, Actor.
1893 ~ Birthday of Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya.
1931 ~ Birthday of Mickey Mantle, athlete.
1983 ~ Grenada's Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, was assassinated.
1968 ~ Jackie Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1973 ~ The Sydney Opera House opened.
1984 ~ Death of Paul Dirac, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933.
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