Today is Monday, October 20, the 294th day of 2008. 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
1845 _ The opera ``Tannheuser" is produced (Dresden)
1905 _ Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1944 _ U.S. forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines
1947 _ HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1968 _ Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
1973 _ OPEC oil embargo begins
1990 _ Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (U.S.-Iraq)