20 October

The **20t o October** is the 293t day o the year (294t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 72 days bidin.

## Events

* 1548 - La Paz, the present-day caipital o Bolivie, is foondit.
* 1728 - The Great Fire o Copenhagen stairts, an lasts for 3 days.
* 1740 - Maria Theresa o Austrick takes ower efter the daith o Charles VI, Haly Roman Emperor.
* 1803 - Unitit States Congress approves the Louisiana Purchase.
* 1818 - Maist o the Canadae-Unitit States border is defined as runnin along the 49t Parallel North.
* 1841 - Efter disagreements wi Mexico's central govrenment, Yucatan govrenor Santiago Mendez declares unthirldom.
* 1905 - Galatasaray fitbaa club is foondit in Istanbul, Turkey.
* 1935 - The Lang Mairch, the major retreat unnertaken bi the airmed forces o the Cheenese Communist Pairty a year afore, ends.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Thoosands o ceevilians in German-occupied Serbie are murthert in the Kragujevac massacre.
* 1947 - The Unitit Naitions banner is adoptit.
* 1948 - 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster: A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner travellin frae Amsterdam crashes at Glesga Prestwick Airport, killin aw 40 fowk on baird. 
* 1971 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor o Wast Germany, wins the Nobel Peace Prize
* 1973 - Sydney Opera Hoose is opened bi Queen Elizabeth II.
* 1976 - The ferry "George Prince" s strack bi a ship on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, killin 78 fowk.
* 1982 - 66 fans die in a mass panic at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
* 1999 - Abdurrahman Wahid is electit Preses o Indonesie.
* 2004 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono becomes Preses o Indonesie.
* 2007 - Sooth Africae defeats Ingland 15-12 in the final o the rugby union Warld Cup in Fraunce.
* 2011 - Libya's leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is kilt bi rebel forces in his birth toon o Sirte.
* 2014 - Joko Widodo becomes Preses o Indonesie.
* 2018 - Up tae 700,000 fowk mairch against Brexit in Lunnon in the lairgest single protest mairch in the Unitit Kinrick syne 2003.
* 2018 - US Preses Donald Trump pulls the Unitit States oot o the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty wi Roushie.

## Births

* 1677 - Stanislaw Leszczynski, Keeng o Poland an Grand Duke o Lithuanie (d. 1766)
* 1784 - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscoont Palmerston, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1865)
* 1790 - Patrick Matthew, Scots grain merchand, fruit fermer, forester an laundawner (d. 1874)
* 1819 - Báb, foonder o the Baha'i faith (d. 1850)
* 1850 - Alice Blanche Balfour, Scots naituralist (d. 1936)
* 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
* 1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
* 1869 - Robin Welsh, Scots curler (d. 1934)
* 1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956)
* 1891 - James Chadwick, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1974)
* 1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, 1st Preses o Kenyae (d. 1978)
* 1904 - Tommy Douglas, Scots-Canadian politeecian (d. 1986)
* 1934 - Michiko, umwhile Empress o Japan
* 1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrick writer
* 1950 - Tom Petty, American sangster an muisicker (d. 2017)
* 1951 - Claudio Ranieri, Italian fitbawer an manager
* 1956 - Danny Boyle, Inglis film director
* 1958 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor
* 1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh fitbawer
* 1964 - Kamala Harris, American politeecian
* 1971 - Dannii Minogue, Australian sangster an actor
* 1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper, sangster an actor
* 1974 - Limmy, Scots comedian, actor an muisicker
* 1989 - Jess Glynne, Inglis sangster-sangwriter
* 1995 - Jamie Lindsay, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scots medicinar (b. 1652)
* 1740 - Charles VI, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
* 1794 - James Adam, Scots airchitect an furnitur designer (b. 1732)
* 1890 - Richard Francis Burton, Inglis splorer (b. 1819)
* 1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scots politeecian (b. 1863)
* 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31nt Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1874)
* 1982 - Jimmy McGrory, Scots fitbawer (b. 1904)
* 1984 - Paul Dirac, Inglis pheesicist (b. 1902)
* 1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
* 1999 - Jack Lynch, Erse Taoiseach (b. 1917)
* 2011 - Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan leader (b. 1942)

## Halidays
* Arbor Day (Czech Republic)
* Heroes' Day (Kenyae)
* Revolution Day (Guatemala)