Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 20

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  Douglas MacArthur and staff arrive at Leyte
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  Pope Pius XII
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  Maria Theresa
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  Maria Theresa of Austria
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  Monument to the R-13 missile
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  Naval Battle of Navarino by Garneray
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  Sydney Opera House
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  Muammar Gaddafi

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1097 – Forces of the First Crusade arrived at Antioch, beginning an eight-month siege of the city.	unreferenced material
1572 – Eighty Years' War: Soldiers of the Spanish Tercios waded across the river Scheldt at its mouth, walking overnight in water to chest height, to relieve the siege of Goes in the Spanish Netherlands.	needs more footnotes
1818 – The United Kingdom and the United States signed the Treaty of 1818, which settled the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel between the Rocky Mountains and Lake of the Woods.	refimprove section
1827 – An allied British, French, and Russian naval force destroyed a combined Ottoman and Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino, a decisive moment in the Greek War of Independence.	refimprove section
1883 – Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, ending Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.	War featured on March 23; Treaty is a stub
1961 – The Soviet Union performed the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.	refimprove section
1973 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, formally opened the Sydney Opera House on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour.	refimprove section
1991 – An urban fire killed 25 people, injured 150 others, and destroyed over 3,000 homes in the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, California.	refimprove section
Catherine Gordon, Duchess of Gordon |b|1718|	Birthday not cited

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• 1740 – Under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction, Maria Theresa (pictured) ascended the Habsburg throne.
• 1939 – Pope Pius XII (pictured) published his first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus, which critiqued ideologies such as racism, cultural superiority and totalitarianism.
• 1951 – African-American college football player Johnny Bright was the victim of an on-field assault, eventually leading to changes in NCAA football rules that mandated the use of more protective helmets with face guards.
• 1967 – Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers National Forest in California.
• 1969 – Experimental results from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were published showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks.
• 1977 – Three members of the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died when their chartered plane crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi.
• 1982 – During a UEFA Cup match between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem, a large number of attendees trying to leave the Central Lenin Stadium resulted in a stampede that caused 66 deaths.
• 1984 – The Spanish trawler Sonia sank in British waters after a five-hour chase by the Irish Naval Service patrol vessel Aisling, during which almost 600 shots were fired.
• 1986 – Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed on approach to Kurumoch Airport in Samara, Russia (then Kuybyshev in the Soviet Union), killing 70 people on board.
• 1991 – An earthquake struck the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes.
• 2011 – First Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader, was captured by rebel forces during the Battle of Sirte, and was killed shortly thereafter.
• Born/died: | Sennacherib|d|681 BC| Bálint Balassi |b|1554| Simon de Vos |b|1603|Pauline Bonaparte |b|1780| Otto Julius Zobel |b|1887| James Chadwick |b|1891| James Anthony Froude |d|1894| Chen Liting |b|1910| Stéphane Hessel |b|1917| Jean Keene |b|1923| Fadiko Gogitidze|d|1940| Tom Petty |b|1950| Kamala Harris |b|1964| Francis Chan |d|1967| Brian Schatz |b|1972| Paige Bueckers |b|2001| Farooq Leghari |d|2010| Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr |d|2011|

Notes

• Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores (site of another human stampede) appears on October 16, so Luzhniki disaster should not appear in the same year

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• 1936 – British woman Mabel Freer was refused entry to Australia after failing a dictation test given in Italian, leading to a debate over Australia's immigration policy.
• 1944 – World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the recapture of the Philippines.
• 1973 – Watergate scandal: Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned after refusing to obey President Richard Nixon's order to have Archibald Cox fired.
• 2022 – Protests broke out across Chad after President Mahamat Déby (pictured) declared his intentions to extend his rule by another two years.
• 2024 – Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka were sworn in as president and vice president of Indonesia, becoming the oldest and the youngest person to assume respective offices.