SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2007

Today is Saturday, October 20, the 293rd day of 2007. There are 72 days left in the year.

1600 _ The battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)

1740 _ Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia

1911 _ Roald Amundsen sets out on race to the South Pole

1944 _ U.S. forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines

1963 _ South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy

1968 _ Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis

1973 _ OPEC oil embargo begins

1979 _ John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston

1983 _ IBM-PC DOS version 2.1 released

1989 _ The U.S. Senate impeaches district judge Alcee L. Hastings

1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (U.S.-Iraq)