NOTABLE BIRTHDAYS ON OCTOBER 20
Chauncey Goodrich (1759-1815) - Son-in-law of Noah Webster (creator of the Dictionary) and editor of the first printed version of the Dictionary.
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (1820-1886) - Confederate Major General.
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James F. Hinkle (1864-1951) - Banker, politician, and cattle farmer who made significant contributions to the cattle industry.
Frederick Burton (1871-1957) - Actor known for his roles in The Big Trail and One Way Passage.
Charles Ives (1874--1954) - Composer who is considered the leading composer of art music of the 20th century.
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Margaret Dumont (1882-1965) - Silent film actress known for her roles in with the Marx Brothers.
Karl Probst (1883-1963) - Car engineer best known for his design of the Bantam Reconnaissance Car (World War II "jeep"). – Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author (d. 1973)[29]
Samuel Flagg Bemis (1891-1973) - Author of The Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1935).
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Olive Thomas (1894-1920) - Model and actress who won Most Beautiful Girl in New York City award.
Wayne Morse (1900-1974) - Lawyer and politician known for his vocal opposition to the Vietnam War.
Frank Churchill (1901-1942) - Musical composer for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, and Peter Pan.
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Enolia McMillan (1904-2006) - First female national President of the NAACP.
Arlene Francis (1907-2001) - Television personality on What's My Line?
Stuart Hamblen (1908-1989) - One of the first radio singing cowboys.
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Carla Laemmle (1909-2014) - Silent film actress known for her roles in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Dracula (1931).
Grandpa Jones (1913-1998) - Musician best known for his banjo playing on stage at the Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw.
Tracy Hall (1919-2008) - Chemist known for his work in creating synthetic diamond.
Nick Cardy (1920-2013) - Comic illustrator who created Aquaman and Teen Titan.
Robert Craft (1923-2015) - Conductor and musicologist who wrote Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (1959).
Art Buchwald (1925-2007) - Columnist best known for his political satirical column in the Washington Post.
Tom Dowd (1925-2002) - Record producer who is credited with innovating the multitrack recording method.
Joyce Brothers (1927-2013) - Author of What Every Woman Should Know About Men.
Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) - Major League baseball player and sportscaster known as one of the sluggers of all time.
Rosey Brown (1932-2004) - Former NFL offensive tackle for the NY Giants for 13 years.
William Christopher (1932-2016) - Actor best known as Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy on M*A*S*H.
Eddie Harris (1934-1996) - Saxophonist known for amplified saxophone.
Jerry Orbach (1935-2004) - Actor known as Detective Lennie Briscoe on Law and Order.
Wanda Jackson (1937-Still Living) - One of the first female genre crossover singers (rock, country, and gospel) whose career began with You Can't Have My Love.
Dolores Hart(1938-Still Living) - Successful film actress who left show business to take vows as a nun.
Robert Pinsky (1940-Still Living) - The first poet to hold The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for three years in a row.
David Mancuso (1944-2016) - Famous DJ who created invitation only parties in New York City.
Tom Petty (1950-2017) - Lead singer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
William Russ (1950-Still Living) - Actor best known as Alan Matthews in Boy Meets World.
Al Greenwood (1951-Still Living) - Founding member of the rock band Foreigner.
Richard McWilliam (1953-2013) - Co-founder of the Upper Deck Company.
Thomas Newman (1955-Still Living) - Film score composer and conductor for musical compositions in The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Finding Nemo, and Elemental.
Scott Hall (1958-2022) - WWF wrestler known as Razor Ramon in the ring.
Kamala Harris (1964-Still Living) - The 49th Vice President of the U.S. and Democratic Presidential candidate in 2024.
Jonathan I. Schwartz (1965-Still Living) - Founder of CarZone.
Patrick Volkerding (1966-Still Living) - Founder of Slackware.
Snoop Dogg (1971-Still Living) - Rapper and business mogul.
Paul Terek (1979-Still Living) - Olympic decathlete.
Mitch Lucker (1984-2012) - Lead singer of the band Suicide Silencer.
MEMORABLE EVENTS ON OCTOBER 20
1774 - Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment among people.
1786 - The first astronomical expedition in the U.S. is organized by Harvard University.
1803 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1817 - The first showboat leaves Mississippi on maiden voyage.
1818 - The border between U.S. and Canada (49th parallel) is formed.
1888 - For the first time Chicago and All America baseball teams travel to Auckland, New Zealand, to play an exhibition game.
1917 - Suffragette Alice Paul begins jail sentence for picketing for the Women's Suffrage Amendment.
1934 - MLB All-Star team (Connie Mack, Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx and Lou Gehrig) sails to Japan for 18-game series.
1944 - Gas tanks explode in Cleveland, Ohio, killing 135 and leaving about 3,600 homeless.
1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigating Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry.
1955 - Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (the Banana Boat Song).
1960 - The first mechanized post office opens in Providence, RI.
1963 - Jim Brown rushes 1,863 yards and sets the NFL single-season rushing record.
1967 - An all-white jury convicts 7 people in a murder trial in Meriden, Mississippi.
1970 -Agronomist Norman Borlaug is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to world food supply.
1973 - President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
1973 - President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe as the greatest athlete of the 20th century.
1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers have the authority to spank pupils after one warning.
1977 - The band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, killing 6 people, including three band members.
1981 - Members of Weather Underground kill two police officers and an armored car guard during a robbery.
1987 - An Air Force jet crashes into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis and kills 10 people.
1997 - The federal government accuses Microsoft for forcing Internet Explorer computers.
2014 - Video footage is captured of teen Laquan McDonald being and killed by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.
2020 - Justice Department sues Google.
