On This Day
October 20
World Statistics Day
1913 The first Laura Secord store open in Toronto at 354 Yonge Street
1973 The Sydney Opera House Opens
1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crashes killing 3 members of the band Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines
1982 In six games the St. Louis Cardinals Beat the Milwaukee Brewers To capture the World Series.
1988 The LA Dodgers win the World Series over the Oakland A's
1990 The Cincinnati Reds Sweep Oakland Athletics securing The World Series.
1992 Luzhniki disaster in a chilling - 10 evening in Moscow a second round UEFA match a between HFC Harrlem a club from the Netherlands & FC Spartak Moscow a Russian league club playing at the Central Lenin Stadium during the end of the match a stampede broke out when fans where leaving the stadium 66 people died in the stampede.
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1882 Bela Lugosi Actor Plan 9 from outer space, Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man, Dracula.
1913 Grandpa Jones, Louis Marshall Jones Country Music Hall of Fammer
1950 Tom Petty Musician Last Dance with Mary Jane, Refugee, I Wont Back Down
1961 Les Stroud Survivorman
1958 Scott Hall aka Razor Ramon in the WWE Hall of fame 4 x WWF Intercontinental Championship
1971 Snoop Dogg Rapper What’s My Name, Nothing But a G thing.
1988 Candice Swanepoel Victoria's Secret Model
1993 Hunter King
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