Historical Events - October 20

1568 : The Mughal emperor Akbar attacked Chittorgarh.

1740 : Maria Theresa became the ruler of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia.

1904 : Chile and Bolivia signed a peace treaty demarcating the border between the two countries.

1947 : Establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Pakistan (for the first time).

1952 : A state of emergency was declared in Kenya. Arrests of Jomo Kenyatta and other key leaders continued.

1962 : The war started between India and China over the border dispute.

1969 : Establishment of Dr. Punjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University (PDKV) at Akola, India.

1970 : The father of the green revolution, Dr. Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Prize.

1971 : Nepal’s stock market collapsed due to recession.

1973 : The Sydney Opera House was inaugurated by Elizabeth II.

1991 : A magnitude 6.8 earthquake shocked Uttarkashi, killed at least 1,000 people.

1995 : Twentieth Century Fox honored Hindi film actor Dev Anand as Man of the Century.

2007 : After Ali Larijani’s resignation, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeid Jalali became the new chief nuclear negotiator.

2011 : Libyan civil war: Troops of the National Transitional Council capture and kill Dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Famous Birthdays   – October 20  

1855: Govardhanram Tripathi, Indian-Gujarati writer.

1891: Sir James Chadwick, the British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron in the atom.

1893: Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president.

1920: Siddharth Shankar Ray, an Indian lawyer, and politician.

1920: Leila Seth, an Indian judge who served as the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court, Himachal Pradesh High Court.

1927: Guntur Seshandar Sharma, an Indian poet, and critic.

1963: Navjot Singh Sidhu, cricketer, commentator, and MP.

1978: Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer and commentator.

Death Anniversaries   – October 20

1740: Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy

1890: Sir Richard Burton, British writer, poet, researcher, diplomat, and spy.

1961: V. S. Guha, Indian Anthropologist.

1964: Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, dies.

1984: Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize-winning English physicist.

1999: Madhavrao Limaye, Indian socialist leader, freedom fighter and journalist.

2011: Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan dictator.

2012: John McConnell, who started Earth Day.

2012: Edward Thomas, an American physician, professor.