On This Day October 20th

 OTD

October 20th is the 293rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 72 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

1740 – France, Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony refuse to honor the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

1781 – The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.

1803 – The United States Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.

1883 – Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, in which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, ending Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.

1944 – Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.

1961 – The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.

1973 – Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House after 14 years of construction.

1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people were crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.

2002 – Top Gear, the revived popular British TV motoring magazine, premiered on BBC.

 

Birthdays

1616 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)

1632 – Christopher Wren, English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d. 1723)

1719 – Gottfried Achenwall, German historian, economist, and jurist (d. 1772)

1882 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)

1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

1913 – Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (d. 1998)

1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1995)

1937 – Wanda Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1950 – Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2017)

1971 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper, producer, and actor

1983 – Michel Vorm, Dutch footballer

 

Holiday Spotlight

World Statistics Day

We observe this day to acknowledge the significance of statistics in our lives. You might wonder how statistics impact your life, and the answer is correct. Whether healthcare, law, finance, science, education, or spending habits, statistics make us aware of facts and reveal important information in numbers.

Everything concerning our daily lives, including how we grow up, start families, work in our chosen industries, and decide where to live, can be studied and examined under statistics. The government and other agencies use these statistics to help plan for the years ahead. Professionals such as mathematicians, city planners, enterprises, digital marketers, and social scientists also rely heavily on statistics for their decision-making process. These figures give us hard and accurate facts and, to a large extent, eliminate other subjective factors that influence decision-making. Statistics constantly impact how countries and governments select and trade resources.

Officially, World Statistics Day raises awareness regarding the accomplishments of statistics founded on the core values of service, professionalism, and integrity in 2010. The United Nations Department of Economic Affairs Statistics Division has been planning and coordinating this global campaign ever since. This international day only occurs every five years, with the next celebration scheduled for 2025, due in three years. Reliable and well-timed statistics are indicators of a country’s progress. This is probably why World Statistics Day is observed every half a decade. It allows countries, their people, and the world to grow, adapt, and produce quality statistics through how they live.

 

 

Others Include

Hawke's Bay Anniversary Day

Community Media Day

Global Champagne Day

International Chef's Day

International Sloth Day

Mammography Day

Miss American Rose Day

National Brandied Fruit Day

National Day on Writing

National Suspenders Day

National Youth Conference Day

Office Chocolate Day

Philippine-British Friendship day

World Osteoporosis Day

World Student Day 

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