TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009

Today is Tuesday, October 20, the 293rd day of 2009. There are 72 days left in the year.

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

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

1813 _ German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished

1911 _ Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole

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

1963 _ S. Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and eight others on conspiracy

1968 _ Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis

1973 _ OPEC oil embargo begins

1977 _ Three members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash

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