October 20
1714 - The coronation of Britain's King George I took place at Westminster Abbey.
1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1936 - Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, died in Forest Hills, New York, at age 70.
1944 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines, 30 months after he declared "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 30th 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 band Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Mississippi.
1987 - Ten people were killed when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot, who was trying to make an emergency landing, ejected safely.
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.
2000 - Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who'd served in the Army, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people.
2011 - Moammar Gadhafi, 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. Gadhafi was 69.
2016 - President Barack Obama defended his health care program, long a target of Republicans and recently criticized by some Democrats, saying millions of Americans “now know the financial security of health insurance” because of the Affordable Care Act.
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.
Birthdays
33 - Candice Swanepoel (actress/model)
36 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman (actress)
38 - Alona Tal (actress)
39 - Katie Featherston (actress)
42 - John Krasinski (actor)
44 - Sam Witwer (actor)
45 - Dan Fogler (actor/comedian)
50 - Dannii Minogue (singer)
50 - Snoop Dogg (rapper)
50 - Kenneth Choi (actor)
51 - Michelle Malkin (political commentator)
53 - Sunny Hostin (TV host)
56 - William Zabka (actor)
57 - Kamala Harris (vice president of the United States)
63 - Viggo Mortensen (actor)
68 - Keith Hernandez (baseball player)
69 - Melanie Mayron (actress)
71 - William "Rusty" Russ (actor)
84 - Wanda Jackson (singer)
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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 - Iowa State defeats Nebraska 14-2.
1910 - A baseball with a cork center was used in a World Series game for the first time.
1917 - Nebraska defeats Notre Dame 7-0.
1923 - Nebraska and Kansas play to a 0-0 tie.
1928 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 7-6.
1931 - Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma.
1934 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 6-0.
1936 - The Associated Press released its first weekly college football poll. The inaugural poll had Minnesota ranked No. 1.
1936 - Nebraska is ranked No. 15 in the inaugural Associated Press weekly college football poll.
1945 - Iowa 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 - Jim Brown sets the NFL single-season rushing record with 1,863 yards.
1973 - #11 Nebraska defeats #18 Kansas 10-9.
1976 - The New York Nets deal Julius "Dr. J" Erving to the Philadelphia 76ers.
1979 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 36-0.
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.
1982 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games to win the World Series.
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.
1992 - The host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 in the first World Series game played outside the United States.
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 - After trailing in the series 3 games to none, the Boston Red Sox came back to defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the American League Championship Series and advance to the World Series.
2007 - Texas A&M defeats Nebraska 36-14.
2012 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 29-28.
2016 - The Los Angeles Sparks defeated the Minnesota Lynx to win their first WNBA championship in 14 years.
2018 - After an 0-6 start to his tenure as Nebraska's head football coach, Scott Frost picks up his first win, leading Nebraska to a 53-28 win over Minnesota.
2020 - The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-3 in the opening game of a World Series played before just 11,388 fans at a neutral site in Arlington, Texas because of the coronavirus pandemic.
1714 - The coronation of Britain's King George I took place at Westminster Abbey.
1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1936 - Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, died in Forest Hills, New York, at age 70.
1944 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines, 30 months after he declared "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 30th 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 band Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Mississippi.
1987 - Ten people were killed when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot, who was trying to make an emergency landing, ejected safely.
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.
2000 - Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who'd served in the Army, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people.
2011 - Moammar Gadhafi, 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. Gadhafi was 69.
2016 - President Barack Obama defended his health care program, long a target of Republicans and recently criticized by some Democrats, saying millions of Americans “now know the financial security of health insurance” because of the Affordable Care Act.
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.
Birthdays
33 - Candice Swanepoel (actress/model)
36 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman (actress)
38 - Alona Tal (actress)
39 - Katie Featherston (actress)
42 - John Krasinski (actor)
44 - Sam Witwer (actor)
45 - Dan Fogler (actor/comedian)
50 - Dannii Minogue (singer)
50 - Snoop Dogg (rapper)
50 - Kenneth Choi (actor)
51 - Michelle Malkin (political commentator)
53 - Sunny Hostin (TV host)
56 - William Zabka (actor)
57 - Kamala Harris (vice president of the United States)
63 - Viggo Mortensen (actor)
68 - Keith Hernandez (baseball player)
69 - Melanie Mayron (actress)
71 - William "Rusty" Russ (actor)
84 - Wanda Jackson (singer)
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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 - Iowa State defeats Nebraska 14-2.
1910 - A baseball with a cork center was used in a World Series game for the first time.
1917 - Nebraska defeats Notre Dame 7-0.
1923 - Nebraska and Kansas play to a 0-0 tie.
1928 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 7-6.
1931 - Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma.
1934 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 6-0.
1936 - The Associated Press released its first weekly college football poll. The inaugural poll had Minnesota ranked No. 1.
1936 - Nebraska is ranked No. 15 in the inaugural Associated Press weekly college football poll.
1945 - Iowa 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 - Jim Brown sets the NFL single-season rushing record with 1,863 yards.
1973 - #11 Nebraska defeats #18 Kansas 10-9.
1976 - The New York Nets deal Julius "Dr. J" Erving to the Philadelphia 76ers.
1979 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 36-0.
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.
1982 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games to win the World Series.
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.
1992 - The host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 in the first World Series game played outside the United States.
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 - After trailing in the series 3 games to none, the Boston Red Sox came back to defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the American League Championship Series and advance to the World Series.
2007 - Texas A&M defeats Nebraska 36-14.
2012 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 29-28.
2016 - The Los Angeles Sparks defeated the Minnesota Lynx to win their first WNBA championship in 14 years.
2018 - After an 0-6 start to his tenure as Nebraska's head football coach, Scott Frost picks up his first win, leading Nebraska to a 53-28 win over Minnesota.
2020 - The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-3 in the opening game of a World Series played before just 11,388 fans at a neutral site in Arlington, Texas because of the coronavirus pandemic.
