October 20 historical events
1097 — Siege of Antioch
The siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098, on the Crusaders' way to Jerusalem through Syria. Two sieges took place in succession. The Crusaders sieged the city held by the Seljuk Empire from 20 October 1097 to 3 June 1098, when the Crusaders successfully took the city. A Seljuk relieving army then sieged the Crusaders for three weeks in late June.
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1465 — Battle of Montenaken
The Battle of Montenaken was fought between the forces of Liège and the Burgundian State on 20 October 1465 as part of the First Liège War. Although outnumbered, the Burgundian force succeeded in routing the militia of Liège, inflicting heavy casualties.
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1547 — Pizarro’s forces defeat Centeno’s army at Huarina
On October 20, 1547, Gonzalo Pizarro’s forces defeated an army led by Diego Centeno at Huarina, near Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia.
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1548 — Alonso de Mendoza founds the settlement that becomes La Paz
Alonso de Mendoza and other Spanish settlers founded Nuestra Señora de La Paz in present-day Laja. The settlement moved to the Chuquiago Valley three days later.
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1565 — Battle of Axtorna
The Battle of Axtorna or simply Axtorna, was a battle fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Denmark 20 October 1565 at Axtorna, a small village in what is today Falkenberg Municipality, Halland County in south-western Sweden.
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1568 — Battle of Jodoigne
The Battle of Jodoigne was fought October 20th 1568 between Spanish and Dutch forces. The Spanish under Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba destroyed the rear guard of William the Silent's invading army, forcing him to abandon his invasion of the Netherlands and to retreat into Germany. The Dutch outnumbered the Spanish army, but were caught off-guard by the Spanish attack.
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1572 — Relief of Goes
In August 1572, during the course of the Eighty Years' War, the city of Goes, in the Spanish Netherlands, was besieged by Dutch forces, including several English volunteers. This was a menace to the safety of the nearby city of Middelburg, also under siege. Given the impossibility of rescue of Goes by sea, 3,000 soldiers of the Spanish Tercios under the command of Cristóbal de Mondragón waded across the river Scheldt at its mouth, walking 15 miles overnight in water up to chest deep.
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1587 — Battle of Coutras
The Battle of Coutras, fought on 20 October 1587, was a major engagement in the French Religious Wars between a Huguenot (Protestant) army under Henry of Navarre (the future Henry IV) and a royalist army led by Anne, Duke of Joyeuse. Henry of Navarre was victorious, and Joyeuse was killed while attempting to surrender.
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1600 — Battle of Bucov
The Battle of Bucov or Teleajen River (called battle of Bukowo in Polish historiography) was fought during the Moldavian Magnate Wars between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Principality of Wallachia, on October 20, 1600. Polish-Lithuanian forces under the command of Jan Zamoyski and Moldavian army of Ieremia Movilă defeated the Wallachian forces commanded by Michael the Brave.
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1653 — Battle of Bordeaux (1653)
The Battle of Bordeaux was a naval engagement of the Franco-Spanish War of 1635 fought on 20 October 1653 in the Gironde estuary. A Spanish fleet under Álvaro de Bazán, 3rd Marquis of Santa Cruz, sent to relieve Bordeaux, at that time held by the nobles rose up against Louis XIV during the Fronde, encountered a great concentration of French warships belonging to Duke of Vendome's army in the channel of Blaye and captured or destroyed most of it. Shortly after a landing was made by some 1,600 soldiers of the Spanish Tercios which sacked the village of Montagne-sur-Gironde.
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1735 — Battle of Clausen
The Battle of Clausen (or Klausen) was fought on 20 October 1735 near the town of Klausen (usually spelled in histories with 'C' instead of 'K'), which was then in the Electorate of Trier and part of the Holy Roman Empire, and is now in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. French forces under the command of Marshal François de Franquetot de Coigny were defeated in an attempt to dislodge imperial troops under the command of Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff.
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1743 — Siege of Mosul (1743)
The siege of Mosul was the siege of the city of Mosul in Ottoman Iraq by Nader Shah's army during the Persian invasion of the Ottoman Empire in 1743.
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1771 — Battle of Bucharest (1771)
The Battle of Bucharest took place on 20 October 1771 and was an important event of the Russo-Turkish war. It occurred when the Ottomans tried to recapture Bucharest from the Russians. In the summer of 1771, Russia launched an offensive against the Turkish positions along the Danube, attacking Giurgiu, but this turned out to be unsuccessful and the initiative in actions passed to the Ottomans.
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1774 — American Revolution: The Continental Association, a nonconsumption and nonimportation agreement against the British Isles and the British West Indies, is adopted by the First Continental Congress
The Continental Association, also known as the Articles of Association or simply the Association, was an agreement among the American colonies, adopted by the First Continental Congress, which met inside Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia on October 20, 1774. It was a result of the escalating American Revolution, and called for a trade boycott against British merchants by the colonies.
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1778 — Action of 20 October 1778
The action of 20 October 1778 was an inconclusive engagement between the French ship-of-the-line Triton and British ship-of-the-line Jupiter with a frigate Medea that took place off Cape Finisterre in the Bay of Biscay. Darkness separated the combatants before any decisive result was obtained.
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1782 — Battle of Cape Spartel
The Battle of Cape Spartel was an indecisive naval battle between a Franco-Spanish fleet under Admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova and a British fleet under Admiral of the Blue Richard Howe. These forces met on 20 October 1782 after Howe successfully resupplied Gibraltar, then under siege by Bourbon forces during the American Revolutionary War.
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1793 — Action of 20 October 1793
The action of 20 October 1793 was fought off Cape Barfleur in the English Channel during the War of the First Coalition. The early months of the year had seen a number of French frigates raiding British merchant shipping in the Channel, and HMS Crescent under Captain James Saumarez was deployed to watch the port of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin with the aim of disrupting the operations of the French frigates Réunion and Sémillante that were based in the harbour.
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1800 — 1800 Massachusetts's 10th congressional district special election
A special election was held in Massachusetts's 10th congressional district on August 25, 1800, and October 20, 1800, to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Samuel Sewall (F).
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1805 — Ulm campaign
The Ulm campaign was a series of French and Bavarian military maneuvers and battles to outflank and capture an Austrian army in 1805 during the War of the Third Coalition. It took place in the vicinity of and inside the Swabian city of Ulm. The French Grande Armée, led by Emperor Napoleon, had 210,000 troops organized into seven corps and hoped to knock out the Austrian army in the Danube before Russian reinforcements could arrive.
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1812 — Second Battle of Polotsk
The Second Battle of Polotsk (18–20 October 1812) took place during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. In this encounter the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein attacked and defeated a Franco-Bavarian force under Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr. In the aftermath of this success, the Russians took Polotsk and dismantled Napoleon's operations in Belarus. Wittgenstein's victory set the stage for the Battle of Berezina in November, in which three Russian armies converged on Napoleon from separate directions.
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1818 — Britain and the United States sign the Convention of 1818
On October 20, 1818, Britain and the United States signed the Convention of 1818 in London. It addressed fishing rights and North American boundary disputes, including joint use of the Oregon Country.
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1827 — Battle of Navarino
The Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence (1821–32), in Navarino Bay (modern-day Pylos), on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. An Ottoman armada, which, in addition to imperial warships, included squadrons from the eyalets (provinces) of Egypt, Tunis and Algiers, was destroyed by an Allied force of British, French and Russian vessels. It was the last major naval battle in history to be fought entirely with sailing ships, although most ships fought at anchor. The Allies' victory was achieved through superior firepower and gunnery.
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1847 — Bombardment of Guaymas
Category:Pacific Coast Campaign On October 20, 1847 Captain Elie A. F. La Vallette of the first-class frigate USS Congress in company with the sloop USS Portsmouth forced the Mexican garrison of Guaymas to evacuate the city under the threat of bombardment, then dismantled the seaward defenses of the city and thereafter controlled the city by the threat of bombardment by a sloop of war kept on station at the mouth of the harbor.
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1852 — Indiana holds its first state fair in Indianapolis
Indiana’s inaugural state fair brought livestock and farm machinery exhibits to the grounds now known as Military Park in Indianapolis.
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1863 — Battle of Rybnica
The Battle of Rybnica, one of many clashes of the January Uprising, took place on October 20, 1863, near the village of Rybnica, which at that time belonged to Russian-controlled Congress Poland. A party of 650 Polish insurgents, commanded by Dionizy Czachowski, clashed with a 500-strong detachment of the Imperial Russian Army. The clash ended in rebel victory; Russian losses were estimated at app. 50–60 killed, while Poles lost 27 killed and 30 wounded. On October 20, Czachowski and his party crossed the Vistula river, and headed northwards. News of the insurgent unit presence reached the town of Staszow, in which stationed a Russian garrison of infantry and dragoons.
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1863 — Battle of Philadelphia
The Battle of Philadelphia (October 20, 1863) saw the Confederate cavalry brigades of Colonels J. J. Morrison and George Gibbs Dibrell attack a Union cavalry brigade under Colonel Frank Wolford at Philadelphia, Tennessee, during the Knoxville campaign of the American Civil War. While Dibrell's brigade skirmished with Wolford's cavalrymen, Morrison led his brigade around the west side of Philadelphia to attack the Union force from the rear.
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1878 — Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878
The campaign to establish Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina lasted from 29 July to 20 October 1878 against the local resistance fighters, Muslims and Orthodox Serbs, supported unofficially by troops of the Ottoman Empire. The Austro-Hungarian Army entered the province in two large movements: one from the north into Bosnia, and another from the south into Herzegovina.
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1883 — Treaty of Ancón
The Treaty of Ancón was a peace treaty signed by Chile and Peru on 20 October 1883, in Ancón, near Lima. It was intended to settle the two nations' remaining territorial differences at the conclusion of their involvement in the War of the Pacific and to stabilise post-bellum relations between them. Under the treaty's terms, Chile gained control over Tarapacá.
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1884 — Admiral Courbet issues a French blockade proclamation off Taiwan
During the Sino-French War, Admiral Amédée Courbet issued a proclamation from the French warship Bayard at Keelung. The notice declared a blockade of ports along Taiwan’s coasts, effective three days later.
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1889 — Portuguese legislative election, 1889
Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 20 October 1889. The result was a victory for the Progressive Party, which won 104 seats.
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1889 — Tipperary wins the All-Ireland senior football final
On October 20, 1889, Tipperary defeated Laois in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final at Inchicore in Dublin.
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1899 — British and Boer forces fight at Talana Hill
On October 20, 1899, British forces attacked Boer positions at Talana Hill in present-day South Africa. They captured the hill but suffered heavy casualties.
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1904 — Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1904)
The Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and Bolivia was signed in Santiago de Chile on 20 October 1904, to delineate the boundary through 96 specified points between Cerro Zapaleri and Cerro Chipe and to regulate the relations between the two countries 20 years after the end of the War of the Pacific.
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1907 — Dublin wins the final of the 1906 All-Ireland football championship
On October 20, 1907, Dublin defeated Cork in the final of the 1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship at Athy, Ireland.
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1907 — 1907 Copa de Honor Cousenier
The 1907 Copa de Honor Cousenier was the final match to decide the winner of the Copa de Honor Cousenier, the 3rd. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by Uruguayan side CURCC and Argentine team Belgrano A.C. The match was held in the Estadio Gran Parque Central in Montevideo, on October 20, 1907.
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1910 — RMS Olympic is launched in Belfast
On October 20, 1910, the ocean liner RMS Olympic was launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
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1911 — Battle of Benghazi (1911)
The Battle of Benghazi occurred during the Italo-Turkish War when the Kingdom of Italy attacked and took possession of the major cities of the Ottoman Empire's North African Tripolitania province, now Libya. Benghazi was one of the five strategic cities captured and held by the Italians during the entire length of the war.
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1915 — South African general election, 1915
The 1915 South African general election was held on 20 October 1915 for the 130 seats in the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa. This was the second Union Parliament. The governing South African Party (SAP) of General Louis Botha emerged from the election as the largest party, but did not receive an overall majority. Botha formed a minority government, during the second successive term of the SAP in office, which survived with some parliamentary support from the official opposition Unionist Party.
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1917 — Operation Albion
Operation Albion was a German air, land and naval operation in the First World War, against Russian forces in October 1917 to occupy the West Estonian Archipelago. The campaign aimed to occupy the Baltic islands of Saaremaa (Ösel), Hiiumaa (Dagö) and Muhu (Moon). The three islands were part of the Russian Empire and strategically dominated the central and northern Baltic Sea.
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1919 — Ontario general election, 1919
The Ontario general election, 1919 was the 15th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on October 20, 1919, to elect the 111 Members of the 15th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs"). The Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir William Hearst, was soundly defeated in a bid for a fifth consecutive term in office by the newly formed United Farmers of Ontario. This election put an end to 14 years of continuous Ontario Conservative Party rule, much of it under James Whitney. Whitney had died in 1914.
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1927 — Irene incident
The Irene incident was a 1927 British anti-piracy operation in China. In an attempt to surprise the pirates of Bias Bay about sixty miles from British Hong Kong, Royal Navy submarines attacked the steamship SS Irene, of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, which had been taken over by the pirates on the night of 19 October. The British were successful in thwarting the hijacking though they sank the ship.
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1930 — Norwegian parliamentary election, 1930
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 20 October 1930. The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 47 of the 150 seats in the Storting.
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1930 — 1930 Iraqi parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 20 October 1930 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies. For every twenty thousand male citizens, one Member of Parliament was elected to the Chamber of Deputies (Majlis an-Nuwwab), the dominant chamber of Parliament over the Senate. It was the third election since the establishment of the parliament.
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1936 — Birmingham Erdington by-election, 1936
The Birmingham Erdington by-election of 1936 was held on 20 October 1936. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Eales. It was won by the Conservative candidate John Allan Cecil Wright.
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1940 — Convoy HX 79
HX 79 was an Allied convoy in the North Atlantic of the HX series, which sailed east from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The convoy took place during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War. One ship dropped out and returned to port, leaving 49 to cross the Atlantic for Liverpool. Two armed merchant cruisers and a submarine escorted the convoy to protect it from German commerce raiders.
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1943 — Allied aircraft bomb Niš
On October 20, 1943, Allied aircraft bombed Niš, a city in present-day Serbia, during World War II.
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1944 — A gas storage tank explodes in Cleveland
On 20 October 1944, a liquefied natural gas storage tank at the East Ohio Gas Company’s Cleveland facility leaked and exploded. The explosion triggered fires across the city’s east side.
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1944 — Battle of Leyte
The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the overall command of General Douglas MacArthur. The combined forces fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
World War II: American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he comes ashore during the Battle of Leyte.
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1944 — Philippines campaign (1944–1945)
The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines, Second Philippines campaign, or the Liberation of the Philippines, codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the American, Filipino, Australian, and Mexican campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II. The Imperial Japanese Army overran all of the Philippines during the first half of 1942.
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1945 — Mongolia holds an independence referendum
Voters in the Mongolian People’s Republic took part in a referendum on independence. The Republic of China formally recognized Mongolian independence the following January.
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1946 — Berlin state election, 1946
The election to the Greater Berlin City Council on October 20, 1946 was the first and last overall Berlin election in the period between the end of the Second World War and the reunification of Germany. The clear winner of the election was the SPD under Otto Ostrowski , which with 48.7% and 63 of 130 seats fell just three seats short of holding an absolute majority. The CDU finished in second under Ferdinand Friedensburg with 22.2% of votes and 29 seats. The SED suffered a sensational defeat, winning just 19.8% of the vote and 26 mandates.
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1946 — 1946 Soviet occupation zone state elections
State elections were held in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany on 20 October 1946 to elect the state legislatures of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. They were the only elections held in the future territory of East Germany before the establishment of the German Democratic Republic in 1949, and the only free and fair elections in that part of Germany between 1932 and the Peaceful Revolution.
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1948 — 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster
A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner (named Nijmegen and registered PH-TEN) crashed into high ground near Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Scotland, on 20 October 1948; all 40 aboard died. A subsequent inquiry found that the accident was likely caused by the crew's reliance on a combination of erroneous charts and incomplete weather forecasts, causing the crew to become distracted and disoriented in the inclement conditions.
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1951 — Johnny Bright is injured during a college football game
Drake football player Johnny Bright suffered a broken jaw after being struck by an Oklahoma A&M player. A sequence of photographs documented the incident.
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1952 — The Nanjing College of Aviation Industry begins teaching
The first students began classes at the Nanjing College of Aviation Industry. The institution later became the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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1962 — 1962 Lipis by-election
The Lipis by-election is a parliamentary by-election that was held on 20 October 1962 in the state of Pahang in the Federation of Malaya. The Lipis seat fell vacant following the death of its member of parliament Mr. Mohamed Sulong Mohd. Ali of Alliance. He won the seat in 1959 Malayan general election with 7,878 majority.
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1962 — Sino-Indian War
The Sino-Indian War, also known as the China–India War or the Indo-China War, was an armed conflict between China and India that took place from October to November 1962. It was a military escalation of the Sino-Indian border dispute. The fighting was concentrated in two locations along the India-China border, the North-East Frontier Agency (NESA), and the Aksai Chin region, which were roughly 1,000 km (620 mi) apart.
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1963 — 1963 East German general election
General elections were held in East Germany on 20 October 1963. They were to originally be held in November 1962 but were postponed. 434 deputies to the Volkskammer were elected and 66 deputies appointed by the Magistrate of East Berlin, with all of them being candidates of the single-list National Front, dominated by the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
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1967 — Operation Medina
Operation Medina was a search and destroy operation conducted from 11 to 20 October 1967, in the Hải Lăng Forest Reserve south of Quảng Trị, South Vietnam.
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1967 — Operation Osceola
Operation Osceola was a security operation around the Quảng Trị Combat Base, Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam from 20 October 1967 to 16 February 1968.
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1969 — 1969 United Nations Security Council election
The 1969 United Nations Security Council election was held on 20 October 1969 during the Twenty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected the Burundi, Nicaragua, Poland, Sierra Leone, and Syria, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1970.
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1970 — Hapoel Tel Aviv wins the 1970 Israeli Super Cup
On 20 October 1970, Hapoel Tel Aviv defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 2–1 in the Israeli Super Cup at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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1972 — EMLL 39th Anniversary Show (2)
Mexican professional wrestling promotion celebrated their 39th anniversary with two professional wrestling major shows centering on the anniversary date in September and October.The second EMLL 39th Anniversary Show took place on October 20, 1972 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico to commemorated the anniversary of EMLL, which over time became the oldest professional wrestling promotion in the world. The Anniversary show is EMLL's biggest show of the year.
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1972 — 1972 United Nations Security Council election
The 1972 United Nations Security Council election was held on 20 October 1972 during the Twenty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Australia, Austria, Indonesia, Kenya, and Peru, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1973.
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1973 — The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings, and a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon and completed by an Australian architectural team headed by Peter Hall, the building was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973, 16 years after Utzon's 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition.
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1976 — MV George Prince ferry disaster
The MV George Prince ferry disaster was a nautical disaster that occurred in the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the morning of October 20, 1976 (1976-10-20). The Luling–Destrehan Ferry George Prince was struck by the Norwegian tanker SS Frosta, which was traveling upriver. The collision occurred at mile post 120.8 above Head of Passes, less than three-quarters of a mile from the construction site of the Luling Bridge which would replace the ferry seven years later.
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1977 — Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash
On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi, United States. Chartered by the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from L & J Company of Addison, Texas, it was flying from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crashing near its destination.
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1977 — October 1977 Thai coup d'état
The October 1977 Thai coup d'état was a bloodless military coup which took place in Thailand on 20 October 1977, staged by the Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTAF). The coup was carried out under the nominal authority of Admiral Sangad Chaloryu of the Royal Thai Navy, head of the National Administrative Reform Council (NARC), but it was effectively led by General Kriangsak Chamanan of the Royal Thai Army, Supreme Commander of the RTAF.
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1979 — Botswana general election, 1979
General elections were held in Botswana on 20 October 1979. The result was a fourth successive landslide victory for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which won 29 of the 32 elected seats, including two in which they were unopposed.
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1981 — 1981 Galician regional election
A regional election was held in Galicia on 20 October 1981 to elect the 1st Parliament of the autonomous community. All 71 seats in the Parliament were up for election. It was held concurrently with a Statute of Autonomy referendum in Andalusia.
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1982 — Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1982
The Northern Ireland Assembly elections were held on 20 October 1982 in an attempt to re-establish devolution and power-sharing in Northern Ireland. Although the Northern Ireland Assembly officially lasted until 1986 (and was seen as being a continuation of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention of 1975) it met infrequently and achieved very little.
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1982 — 1982 Sri Lankan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka for the first time on 20 October 1982. Incumbent president J. R. Jayewardene of the governing United National Party was re-elected, receiving 53% of all valid votes cast, defeating his main opponent Hector Kobbekaduwa of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
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1982 — Luzhniki disaster
The Luzhniki disaster was a deadly crowd crush that took place at the Grand Sports Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium (Russian: Большая спортивная арена Центрального стадиона им. В. И. Ленина, now known as Luzhniki Stadium) in Moscow during the 1982–83 UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem on 20 October 1982.
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1984 — Iraqi parliamentary election, 1984
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 20 October 1984. The election was contested by 782 candidates, and saw the Ba'ath Party win 183 of the 250 seats.
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1985 — Burmese general election, 1985
General elections were held in Burma between 6 and 20 October 1985. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Burma Socialist Programme Party as the sole legal party. It therefore won all 489 seats in People's Assembly.
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1985 — 1985 Norwegian Football Cup final
The 1985 Norwegian Football Cup final was the final match of the 1985 Norwegian Football Cup, the 80th season of the Norwegian Football Cup, the premier Norwegian football cup competition organized by the Football Association of Norway (NFF). The match was played on 20 October 1985 at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, and opposed two First Division sides Lillestrøm and Vålerengen.
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1985 — 7th Vietnam Film Festival
The 7th Vietnam Film Festival was held from October 14 to October 20, 1985, in Hanoi, Vietnam, with the slogan: "For the Socialist Fatherland, for the people's happiness, for the development of the national cinema" (Vietnamese: "Vì Tổ quốc xã hội chủ nghĩa, vì hạnh phúc của nhân dân, vì sự phát triển của nền điện ảnh dân tộc").
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1986 — Aeroflot Flight 6502
Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A from Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) to Grozny via Kuibyshev (now Samara), which crashed in Kuibyshev on 20 October 1986. 70 of the 94 passengers and crew on board were killed when the plane overran the runway, after the pilot attempted to make an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows.
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1986 — 1986 Saskatchewan general election
The 1986 Saskatchewan general election, the twenty-first in the history of the province, was held on October 20, 1986, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
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1990 — Manchester United–Arsenal brawl (1990)
On 20 October 1990, Manchester United Football Club faced Arsenal Football Club in a Football League First Division fixture at Old Trafford, during the 1990–91 season. Arsenal won by a single goal, but the game was also significant for a brawl between both teams. The Football Association (FA) took the unprecedented step of deducting league points from the two clubs.
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1991 — 1991 Norwegian Football Cup final
The 1991 Norwegian Football Cup final was the final match of the 1991 Norwegian Football Cup, the 86th season of the Norwegian Football Cup, the premier Norwegian football cup competition organized by the Football Association of Norway (NFF). The match was played on 20 October 1991 at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, and opposed two Tippeligaen sides Strømsgodset and Rosenborg.
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1991 — 1991 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey on 20 October 1991, to elect members to the 19th Grand National Assembly. It was the first by the ruling Motherland Party to be contested without its founding leader, Turgut Özal, who had become Turkish president two years previously. The result was a swing against Özal's former party in favour of its fierce centre-right rival, the True Path Party led by Süleyman Demirel.
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1991 — 1991 Uttarkashi earthquake
The 1991 Uttarkashi (Garhwal) earthquake occurred at 02:53 Indian Standard Time on 20 October (21:23 UTC on 19 October). It struck the Uttarkashi and Garhwal regions along the Main Central Thrust in Uttarakhand, then part of Uttar Pradesh, and caused serious casualties and extensive housing damage.
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1992 — 1992 King Fahd Cup final
The 1992 King Fahd Cup final was a football match to determine the winners of the 1992 King Fahd Cup. The match was held at King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 20 October 1992 and was contested by Argentina and Saudi Arabia. Argentina won the match 3–1. For Saudi Arabia, this appearance meant they were the first Asian team to reach the final of a major FIFA tournament.
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1993 — 1993 Jersey general election
The 1993 Jersey general election was held in two rounds in 1993, with six of the twelve senatorial seats in the States Assembly elected on 20 October and all of the 28 deputy seats elected on 25 November. As in previous elections, all candidates ran as independents.
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1994 — 1994 United Nations Security Council election
The 1994 United Nations Security Council election was held on 20 October 1994 during the Forty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Botswana, Germany, Honduras, Indonesia, and Italy, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1995.
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1995 — Space Shuttle Columbia launches with the second U.S. Microgravity Laboratory
Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off with a seven-person crew and the second United States Microgravity Laboratory. The crew used the Spacelab module to run experiments in fluid physics, materials science and biotechnology.
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1996 — Japanese general election, 1996
A general election took place in Japan on October 20, 1996. Incumbent Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto of the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Party Sakigake and the Social Democratic Party won the election. This is the first election under new elections rules established in 1993 with single non-transferable vote, single-member districts, and some seats being distributed according to proportional representation. Before this election, each district was represented by multiple members, sometimes from the same party, causing intra-party competition. Under the new rules, each district has only one representative now representing a wide range of interests for his or her district.
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1996 — Nicaraguan general election, 1996
A general election was held in Nicaragua to elect a president and parliament on October 20, 1996.
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1996 — Finland holds its first European Parliament election
On October 20, 1996, Finland held its first election for the country’s representatives in the European Parliament.
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1996 — MLS Cup 1996
MLS Cup 1996 was the inaugural edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-level soccer league of the United States. Hosted at Foxboro Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on October 20, 1996, it was contested by D.C. United and the Los Angeles Galaxy to decide the champion of the 1996 season.
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1997 — 1997 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon
The 1997 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon in France and was part of the World Series of the 1997 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from October 13 through October 20, 1997.
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1999 — Construction begins on Unit 1 of Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant
On 20 October 1999, construction began on Unit 1 of Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant; this was not its commercial operation date.
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1999 — Jersey holds its 1999 senatorial election
Jersey voters chose six senators in an island-wide election. The candidates who won took seats in the States Assembly.
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2000 — 2000 AFC Asian Cup final
The 2000 AFC Asian Cup final was a football match which determined the winner of the 2000 AFC Asian Cup, the 12th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of the Asian Football Confederation. The match was held at the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, on 20 October 2000 and was contested by Japan and Saudi Arabia.
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2001 — 2001 Australian Capital Territory election
Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday, 20 October 2001. The incumbent Liberal Party, led by Gary Humphries, was challenged by the Labor Party, led by Jon Stanhope. Candidates were elected to fill three multi-member electorates using a single transferable vote method, known as the Hare-Clark system. The result was another hung parliament.
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2001 — Operation Rhino
Operation Rhino was a Joint Special Operations Command raid by several special operations units, including the United States Army's 160th Special Operation Aviation Regiment and the 75th Ranger Regiment (Regimental Reconnaissance Company and 3rd Ranger Battalion), on several Taliban targets in and around Kandahar, Afghanistan during the invasion of Afghanistan. The mission was an airfield seizure in support of a Delta Force raid on the nearby home of Mullah Omar; though intelligence suggested that perhaps neither location was occupied.
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2001 — APEC's economic leaders meet in Shanghai
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders gathered in Shanghai for a two-day meeting. They issued their declaration the following day.
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2002 — No Mercy (2002)
No Mercy (2002) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and presented by Subway that took place on October 20, 2002, at the Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It was the fifth annual WWE No Mercy event and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown! brand. To date, it is the only WWE pay-per-view event ever held in the state of Arkansas. The event featured two main events. The main event from the SmackDown! brand featured WWE Champion Brock Lesnar defeat The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match to retain the title.
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2002 — Ecuadorian general election, 2002
General elections were held in Ecuador on 20 October 2002, with a second round of the presidential elections on 24 November. The result was a victory for Lucio Gutiérrez of the PSP–MUPP–NP alliance, who won the run-off with 54.8% of the vote. The Social Christian Party emerged as the largest party in the National Congress, winning 24 of the 100 seats.
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2002 — 2002 Scottish Challenge Cup final
The 2002 Scottish Challenge Cup final, also known as the Bell's Cup final for sponsorship reasons, was an association football match between Brechin City and Queen of the South on 20 October 2002 at Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld. It was the 12th final of the Scottish Challenge Cup since it was first organised in 1990 to celebrate the centenary of the Scottish Football League.
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2002 — MLS Cup 2002
MLS Cup 2002 was the seventh edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), which took place on October 20, 2002. It was hosted at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, United States, and contested by the New England Revolution and the Los Angeles Galaxy to decide the champion of the 2002 season.
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2002 — Top Gear, the revived popular British TV motoring magazine, premieres on BBC
Top Gear is a British motoring-themed magazine television programme. It is a revival of the 1977–2001 show of the same name for the BBC, devised by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, which premiered on 20 October 2002. The programme expanded upon its earlier incarnation which focused on reviewing cars to incorporate films featuring motoring-based challenges, races, timed laps of notable cars, and celebrity timed laps on a specially-designed track.
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2003 — The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structures known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University
The Sloan Great Wall (SGW) is a cosmic structure formed by a giant wall of galaxies (a galaxy filament). Its discovery was announced from Princeton University on October 20, 2003, by J. Richard Gott III, Mario Jurić, and their colleagues, based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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2004 — 2004 Norfolk Island legislative election
The 2004 Norfolk Island legislative election was held on 20 October 2004 to elect the 11th Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly, the prime legislative body of Norfolk Island. The election was held three months after the murder of Assembly member Ivens Buffett, who also served as Deputy Chief Minister and Lands Minister. His seat remained vacant until the election. Geoff Gardner remained Chief Minister following the election.
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2005 — Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is a binding international legal instrument and UNESCO convention adopted by the UNESCO General Conference on 20 October 2005, during the 33rd session of the UNESCO General Conference held in Paris, France on 3–21 October 2005. The convention compliments the previously established provisions of UNESCO including the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity of 2001. "The Convention recognises the rights of Parties to take measures to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions, and impose obligations at both domestic and international levels on Parties."
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2006 — Pitbull/Public Enemy Memorial Cup
The Pitbull/Public Enemy Memorial Cup was a professional wrestling memorial event produced by the Pro Wrestling Unplugged (PWU) promotion, which took place on October 20, 2006, at Viking Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show was held in honor of the deceased members of The Pitbulls (Anthony Durante) and The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge), both popular tag teams during the early years of Extreme Championship Wrestling, and featured some of the top tag teams on the independent circuit in an 8-team tournament. In keeping with ECW tradition, all matches were no-countout/no-disqualification.
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2006 — Battle of Amarah
The Battle of Amarah took place from October 19 to October 20, 2006, between the Mahdi Army and police, who were largely members of the Badr Organization. Fighting began on October 19, when 800 masked members of the Mahdi army stormed three police stations in Amarah.
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2007 — UFC 77
UFC 77: Hostile Territory was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The event took place on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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2007 — 2007 Louisiana lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 2007 Louisiana lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on October 20, 2007, in order to elect the lieutenant governor of Louisiana. Incumbent Democratic lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu defeated Republican candidate and country music singer Sammy Kershaw, Republican candidate and incumbent member of the Louisiana House of Representatives Gary J. Beard and Independent candidates Norris Gros Jr. and Thomas D. Kates.
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2007 — 2007 Louisiana Attorney General election
The 2007 Louisiana Attorney General election took place on October 20, 2007, to elect the Attorney General of the state of Louisiana, with a runoff, held on November 17, 2007. Incumbent Democrat Charles Foti sought re-election to a second term in office but was defeated in the state's jungle primary by Republican Royal Alexander and Democrat Buddy Caldwell.
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2007 — 2007 Louisiana gubernatorial election
The 2007 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on October 20. Democratic incumbent Kathleen Blanco did not run for re-election to a second term in office. Bobby Jindal won the election in the open jungle primary, capturing a majority of the vote and obviating the need for a run-off election. This was the first time since 1968 in which the winner of a Louisiana gubernatorial election was of the same party as the incumbent president.
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2009 — Hong Kong introduces its Outbound Travel Alert System
On October 20, 2009, Hong Kong’s Security Bureau introduced the Outbound Travel Alert System to advise residents about risks when travelling abroad.
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2011 — Burundian peacekeepers fight al-Shabaab in Deynile
On October 20, 2011, Burundian troops serving in the African Union mission fought al-Shabaab militants in Deynile, a district of Mogadishu, Somalia.
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2011 — Second Gulf of Sidra offensive
The Second Gulf of Sidra offensive was a military operation in the First Libyan Civil War conducted by rebel anti-Gaddafi forces in August and September 2011 to take control of towns along the Gulf of Sidra in an effort to surround Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, which was held by pro-Gaddafi forces.
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2011 — Battle of Sirte (2011)
The Battle of Sirte was the final and most decisive battle of the First Libyan Civil War, beginning when the National Liberation Army attacked the last remnants of the Libyan army still loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown and designated capital of Sirte, on the Gulf of Sidra.
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2011 — Muammar Gaddafi, a former leader of Libya, was murdered by the National Transitional Council (NTC) on 20 October 2011 after the Battle of Sirte
Muammar Gaddafi, a former leader of Libya, was murdered by the National Transitional Council (NTC) on 20 October 2011 after the Battle of Sirte. Gaddafi was captured by NTC forces and killed extrajudicially shortly afterwards. The NTC initially claimed Gaddafi succumbed to injuries sustained in a firefight when loyalist forces attempted to free him, although a video of his last moments shows rebel fighters dragging Gaddafi out of a drainage pipe, beating him and one of them sodomizing him with a bayonet before he was shot several times.
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2011 — The Uni-President Lions win the 2011 Taiwan Series
The Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions beat the Lamigo Monkeys 10–6 in Tainan to clinch the championship four games to one.
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2012 — 2012 Ondo State gubernatorial election
The 2012 Ondo State gubernatorial election occurred on October 20, 2012. Incumbent governor, LP's Olusegun Mimiko won election for a second term, defeating other party candidates. Mimiko received 43.79% of the total vote and won in 13 of the state's 18 LGAs, closely followed by PDP's Olusola Oke who won in two LGAs with 26.25% of total votes, while the ACN candidate, Rotimi Akeredolu, who won in three LGAs came third with 24.15% of the votes.
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2012 — 2012 Halifax municipal election
The 2012 Halifax Regional Municipality municipal election was held on October 20, 2012 to elect councillors and a mayor to a four-year term on the Halifax Regional Council, the governing body of the Halifax Regional Municipality. This election was one of many across Nova Scotia as part of the 2012 Nova Scotia municipal elections.
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2012 — 2012 Australian Capital Territory election
Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly occurred on Saturday, 20 October 2012. The 11-year incumbent Labor Party, led by Chief Minister Katy Gallagher, won a fourth term over the main opposition Liberal Party, led by opposition leader Zed Seselja. Candidates are elected to fill all 17 Legislative Assembly seats in the unicameral parliament which consists of three multi-member electorates, Brindabella (five seats), Ginninderra (five seats) and Molonglo (seven seats), using a proportional representation single transferable vote method known as the Hare-Clark system.
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2012 — 2012 Nova Scotia municipal elections
Municipal elections were held across the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on October 20, 2012. Selected mayoral races are as follows. Each town and regional municipality in the province held an election for mayor, while one county (Colchester) and one municipal district (Lunenburg) also held races for mayor.
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2012 — 25th Tokyo International Film Festival
The 25th annual Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) was held from October 20 to October 28, 2012.
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2013 — Bound for Glory (2013)
Bound for Glory (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It took place on October 20, 2013 at the Viejas Arena in San Diego, California. It was the ninth pay-per-view under the Bound for Glory chronology, and the fourth event in the 2013 TNA PPV schedule. The event also marked the first time TNA hosted an event in San Diego.
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2013 — 2013 Leinster Senior Cup final
The 2013 Leinster Senior Cup final was the last match of the 2013 Leinster Senior Cup. The match was played between 2013 League of Ireland champions St Patrick's Athletic and 2012 Leinster Senior Cup winners, Shamrock Rovers at Richmond Park on 20 October 2013. The match finished 1–0 to Shamrock Rovers, with James Chambers scoring the winner to secure Rovers their 18th Leinster Senior Cup title.
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2013 — 2013 Adelaide Film Festival
The 6th Adelaide Film Festival took place in Adelaide, Australia, from 10 to 20 October 2013. This was Amanda Duthie's first year as Festival Director (after eight years at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and eight years at the Special Broadcasting Service during the 1990s), having taken over from Katrina Sedgwick. Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton served as the festival's patrons.
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2014 — 2014 Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives election
The 2014 election of the Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives occurred on 20 October 2014, following the 2014 general election result. The election resulted in the re-election of National Party MP David Carter as Speaker.
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2014 — Operation Canopus Star
Operation Canopus Star (Arabic: عملية نجم سهيل) was an operation launched by the Syrian Army, supported by Hezbollah and other allied militias, during the Syrian Civil War, following a successful offensive which re-established the military's supply route between Aleppo and central Syria. The aim of the operation was to encircle Aleppo and cut rebel supply lines into the city, thus besieging rebel-held areas.
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2016 — 2016 Batley and Spen by-election
A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Batley and Spen was held on 20 October 2016, triggered by the murder of incumbent Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), Jo Cox, on 16 June of that year. The Labour candidate, Tracy Brabin, won with 85.8% of the vote. Out of respect for Cox, all other parties with parliamentary representation did not stand candidates.
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2016 — 2016 Witney by-election
A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Witney was held on 20 October 2016, triggered by the resignation of the incumbent Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) and recently-departed Prime Minister David Cameron. It was won by the Conservative candidate Robert Courts with a reduced vote share, and the Liberal Democrats came in second with an increase in vote share of 23.4 percentage points.
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2017 — 2017 Charles University Rector election
The Charles University Rector election, 2017 was held on 20 October 2017. The incumbent Rector Tomáš Zima defeated Jan Černý and was elected for his second term.
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2017 — Battle of Altun Kupri (2017)
The Battle of Altun Kupri occurred on 20 October 2017 during the Battle of Kirkuk, between the Iraqi Army supported by the Popular Mobilization Forces with intelligence allegedly provided by Iran, and the KDP Peshmerga, supported by PAK and Kurdish locals. The battle began in the early morning, and at 10 a.m., Iraqi forces pushed through Altun Kupri capturing it completely.
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2017 — Battle of Kirkuk (2017)
The Battle of Kirkuk, codenamed Operation Enforcing Security of the 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, was a military deployment by the Iraqi Security Forces to retake Kirkuk Governorate from the Peshmerga after the latter ignored repeated warnings to withdraw, sparking clashes between the two forces. The advance began on 15 October 2017, with the city of Kirkuk being retaken upon entry of the Iraqi forces as the Kurds fled immediately.
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2017 — Raqqa campaign (2016–2017)
The Raqqa campaign (codenamed Operation Wrath of Euphrates) was a military operation launched in November 2016 during the Rojava–Islamist conflict by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the Islamic State (IS) in the Raqqa Governorate, with the goal of isolating and eventually capturing the Islamic State's capital city, Raqqa. The SDF's subsidiary goals included capturing the Tabqa Dam, the nearby city of al-Thawrah, and the Mansoura Dam further downstream.
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2017 — Leyenda de Plata (2017)
The Leyenda de Plata (2017) (Spanish for "Silver Legend") was professional wrestling tournament produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLLl; Spanish "World Wrestling Council") that ran from October 13, 2017, over the course of two of CMLL's Friday night shows in Arena México with the finals on October 20, 2017.
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2018 — PFL 10 (2018)
The PFL 10 mixed martial arts event for the 2018 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on October 20, 2018, at the St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, D.C.
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2018 — 2018 Wentworth by-election
A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Wentworth took place on 20 October 2018 after the parliamentary resignation of the former Prime Minister of Australia and incumbent Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull. The seat was won by independent candidate Kerryn Phelps, with a swing of almost twenty percent away from the Liberal Party.
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2018 — 2018 Thai League Cup final
The 2018 Thai League Cup final was the final match of the 2018 Thai League Cup, the 9th season in the second era of a Thailand's football tournament organised by Football Association of Thailand. It was played at the Thammasat Stadium in Pathum Thani, Thailand on 20 October 2018, between Chiangrai United a big team from the Northern part and Bangkok Glass a big team from the metropolitan region of Thailand.
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2018 — 2018 Vancouver municipal election
The 2018 Vancouver municipal election was held on October 20, 2018, the same day as other municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia selected their new municipal governments. Voters elected a mayor, 10 city councillors, 7 park board commissioners, and 9 school board trustees through plurality-at-large voting. Official registration for all candidates opened on September 4, 2018, and closed on September 14, 2018.
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2018 — 2018 British Columbia municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in the Canadian province of British Columbia on October 20, 2018. Races were held in all municipalities and regional district electoral areas. Incumbents marked with "(X)".
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2018 — Death of Yueh Hua
On 20 October 2018, Yueh Hua, an actor, died.
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2019 — 2019 Bolivian general election
General elections were held in Bolivia on 20 October 2019. Voters elected all 130 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 36 senators and cast ballots for a joint slate of president and vice president.
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2019 — Bound for Glory (2019)
The 2019 Bound for Glory was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Impact Wrestling. It took place on October 20, 2019, in Villa Park, Illinois. It was the 15th event under the Bound for Glory chronology. Wrestlers from Mexico's Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and Japan's Pro Wrestling Noah (NOAH), with which Impact Wrestling has partnerships, also appeared on the card.
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2019 — 2019 Suzhou Ladies Open
The 2019 Suzhou Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Suzhou, China between 14 and 20 October 2019.
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2019 — 2019 Democratic Alliance Federal Council chairpersonship election
The 2019 Democratic Alliance Federal Council chairpersonship election was held on 20 October 2019 to elect the new Chairperson of the South African Federal Council of the Democratic Alliance (DA), after the incumbent James Selfe had announced his retirement in June 2019. The members of the party's Federal Council elected the new chairperson. Helen Zille was elected to the position.
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2019 — 2019 Victorian First Peoples' Assembly election
The 2019 Victorian First Peoples' Assembly election was held between 16 September to 20 October 2019 to elect 21 members to the First Peoples' Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. The election filled seats to the body, which was charged with the responsibility of preparing for negotiations with the Victorian Government about a treaty with the state's Aboriginal population.
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2019 — A bus crashes and catches fire near Mbanza-Ngungu
Early on October 20, 2019, a bus traveling from Lufu to Kinshasa left the road and caught fire near Mbanza-Ngungu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The government reported 31 deaths and 21 people hospitalized.
The crash occurred early on October 20. The president visited the area on October 21.
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2019 — 2019 Kiskút Open
The 2019 Kiskút Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and part of the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, from 14–20 October 2019.
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2021 — 2021 Barbadian presidential election
The 2021 Barbadian presidential election was held on 20 October 2021 to choose the first president of Barbados, an office established as part of Barbados becoming a republic. Sandra Mason, the incumbent governor-general of Barbados, was elected president, and she replaced Queen Elizabeth II as head of state of Barbados when she was sworn in on 30 November 2021.
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2023 — Battle of Krynky
The Battle of Krynky was a battle waged between Russian and Ukrainian armed forces over the village of Krynky, which lasted from 20 October 2023 to 17 July 2024, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated across the Dnieper River.
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2024 — 2024 GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury
The 2024 GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is the fifteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2024 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom between 14 and 20 October 2024.
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2024 — 2024 Moldovan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Moldova on 20 October 2024, with a runoff held on 3 November. Incumbent president Maia Sandu, who won the first round, and former Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo, who was the runner-up, contested the runoff, with Sandu winning a majority of votes and being re-elected for a second and final term.
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2024 — 2024 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election
The 2024 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election was held on 20 October 2024. Seats to the Kurdistan Region Parliament were elected. The results of the elections were announced on 21 October 2024, by the Independent High Electoral Commission in Baghdad.
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2024 — 2024 Mercer Tennis Classic
The 2024 Mercer Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2024 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Macon, Georgia, United States between 14 and 20 October 2024.
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2024 — 2024 European Table Tennis Championships
The 2024 European Table Tennis Championships was a table tennis tournament that was held in Linz, Austria, from 15 to 20 October 2024.
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2024 — 2024 BFI London Film Festival
The 68th BFI London Film Festival was a film festival that took place from 9–20 October 2024. The competition films were announced on 29 August 2024 while the films for the galas and the strands were revealed on 4 September 2024. Steve McQueen's historical drama Blitz opened the festival on 9 October 2024, being the third film by McQueen to do so after Widows in 2018 and Mangrove in 2020.
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2025 — 2025 Calgary municipal election
The 2025 Calgary municipal election was held on October 20, 2025, to elect a mayor and fourteen councillors to the Calgary City Council. In conjunction with the elections for city council, residents also cast ballots for trustees of the Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District. Incumbent mayor Jyoti Gondek was defeated. She is the first incumbent mayor since Ross Alger in 1980 not to be elected to a second term.
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2025 — 2025 Alberta municipal elections
Municipal elections in Alberta were held on October 20, 2025. Voters in the Canadian province of Alberta elected mayors, reeves, councillors, aldermen, school board trustees, and all other elected officials in all of the province's municipalities (except Lloydminster), towns, villages, specialized municipalities, and municipal districts.
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2025 — Death of Zhou Guozhi
On 20 October 2025, Zhou Guozhi, a metallurgical physicochemical scientist, died.
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