TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015

Today is Tuesday, October 20, the 293rd day of 2015. 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

1964 ― Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)

1968 ― Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis

1973 ― Saturday Night Massacre; Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by Solicitor General Bork, Attorney General Richardson and Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned

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

1988 ― Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA

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