October 20

Today in History
• 1603 - Chinese uprising in the Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
• 1740 - Maria Theresa becomes ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia
• 1774 - American Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment
• 1803 - US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
• 1818 - 49th parallel forms as border between US and Canada
• 1818 - US and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
• 1822 - 1st edition of London Sunday Times
• 1908 - King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Hawke's Bay Anniversary Day
• Kenya: Mashujaa Day
• Miss American Rose Day
• Philippine-British Friendship Day
• Revolution Day (Guatemala)
• Swn Festival
• World Osteoporosis Day
• World Statistics Day

Birthdays
• 1496 - Claude de Lutherans, 1st duke of Guise, French general
• 1632 - Christopher Wren, English astronomer and architect (St. Paul's Cathedral)
• 1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczynski, King of Poland
• 1679 - Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, Grand Chancellor of Prussia
• 1784 - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British Prime Minister
• 1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico
• 1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, 1st Prime Minister of Kenya (1963-64)
• 1913 - Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam, 1949-55