10-20-2004, 05:30 AM
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October 20th
1632 ~ Birthday of Sir Christopher Wren, Architect.
1740 ~ Maria Theresa took the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refused to honor the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession began.
1803 ~ United States Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1882 ~ Birthday of Bela Lugosi, Actor.
1891 ~ Birthday of Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya.
1931 ~ Birthday of Mickey Mantle, baseball star.
1944 ~ The Soviet army captured Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia.
1947 ~ The House Un-American Activities Committee began its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood.
1973 ~ The Sydney Opera House opened.
1984 ~ Death of Paul Dirac, Physicist.
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