Today in History – Oct. 20 – 1803 – US Senate Ratifies Louisiana Purchase

1097 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade

1603 Chinese uprising in the Philippines fails after 23,000 killed

1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

1917 US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7-month jail sentence for protesting women’s rights in Washington

1935 Communist forces end their Long March at Yan’an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence

1944 US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th army on Leyte

2020 US Justice Department sues Google for illegal monopoly over search and search advertising

Today’s Historical Events

Today In Film & TV

1998 Comedian Richard Pryor is awarded the 1st ever Mark Twain Prize for American Humour

Today In Music

1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House

Today in Sport

1973 US President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe to have been the greatest athlete of the 1st half of the 20th century

Do You Know This Fact About Today? Did You Know?

Publication of “The Return of the King”, the 3rd and final volume of “The Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London, on this day in 1955

Would You Believe This Fact About Today? Would You Believe? A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and