October 20: The Story of a Special Day
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OCTOBER 20, 1944: MACARTHUR RETURNS! Fulfilling a promise made two years' previously, General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore on Leyte Island, the Phillipines. Plus, pirates Calico Jack and Anne Bonny are captured, the US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase, Nixon fires the Watergate special prosecutor, the Sydney Opera House opens, and a plane carrying the band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes. October 20 is the birthday of Mickey Mantle, Bela Lugosi, Tom Petty, and Keith Hernandez; explorer Sir R...






















