Public Holidays on October 20

• 🌍 Dussehra (India)
• 🌍 Mashujaa Day (Kenya)

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On This Day in History — October 20

• 2011 — Libyan Civil War: National Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter.
• 1991 — A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
• 1982 — During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
• 1981 — Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, New York, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
• 1977 — Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashes.
• 1976 — The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.

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Notable Births on October 20

• 1994 — Corey Oates, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 — Mattia De Sciglio, Italian footballer
• 1992 — Ksenia Semyonova, Russian gymnast
• 1992 — Ferhat Yazgan, Turkish footballer
• 1990 — Sam Mataora, Cook Islands rugby league player
• 1989 — Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter

Notable Deaths on October 20

• 2016 — Robert E. Kramek, former United States Coast Guard admiral (b. 1939)
• 2016 — Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1939)
• 2015 — Makis Dendrinos, Greek basketball player and coach (b. 1950)
• 2015 — Arno Gruen, German-Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Kazimierz Łaski, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1921)
• 2015 — Michael Meacher, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (b. 1939)

Sports on October 20

• WNBA: Atlanta Dream @ Golden State Valkyries — 00:00 UTC Final
• MLB: Cleveland Guardians @ Tampa Bay Rays — 00:00 UTC Final
• MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers @ Milwaukee Brewers — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NFL: Washington Commanders @ San Francisco 49ers — 00:15 UTC Final
• NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins @ Utah Mammoth — 01:00 UTC Final
• UEFA Champions League: Slavia Prague @ Fenerbahce — 16:45 UTC Scheduled

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On This Day in History — October 21

• 2005 — Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
• 1994 — North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
• 1994 — In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
• 1987 — Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
• 1986 — In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
• 1983 — The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

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Notable Births on October 21

• 1995 — Cameron Burgess, Scottish-Australian footballer
• 1995 — Antoinette Guedia Mouafo, Cameroonian swimmer
• 1992 — Bernard Tomic, German-Australian tennis player
• 1991 — Tom Eastman, English footballer
• 1991 — Geoffry Hairemans, Belgian footballer
• 1991 — Vadaine Oliver, English footballer

Notable Deaths on October 21

• 2015 — France Bučar, Slovenian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Marty Ingels, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2015 — Norman W. Moore, English conservationist and author (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Sheldon Wolin, American philosopher, theorist, and academic (b. 1922)
• 2014 — Ben Bradlee, American journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2014 — Nelson Bunker Hunt, American businessman (b. 1926)

Sports on October 21

• NHL: Winnipeg Jets @ St. Louis Blues — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Boston Bruins @ Dallas Stars — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• MLB: Cleveland Guardians @ Tampa Bay Rays — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Minnesota Wild @ Edmonton Oilers — 01:00 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Oklahoma City Thunder @ San Antonio Spurs — 01:30 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Detroit Red Wings @ Seattle Kraken — 01:40 UTC Scheduled

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