On This Day October 20th

  OTD

October 20th is the two hundred ninety-third day of the year, and there are 72 days remaining 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 signed the Treaty of Ancón, in which the Tarapacá province was 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

Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day

In 1993, Gospel Light established Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day to honor Sunday school teachers nationwide. Sunday schools, often held in churches, offer classes to teach about Christianity. The first Sunday school in the U.S. was set up in 1799 by Samuel Slater in Rhode Island, inspiring the American Sunday school movement. Sunday school teachers are usually volunteers who teach children about faith and life values, and they are expected to have good character and community standing.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Community Media Day

International Chef's Day

International Sloth Day

Miss American Rose Day

National Brandied Fruit Day

National Call-In Day for Health Reform

National Day on Writing

National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day  

National Suspenders Day

National Youth Conference Day

Office Chocolate Day

The International Day of the Air Traffic Controller

World Osteoporosis Day

World Toy Camera Day  

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