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)