October 20
People born on this day are Libra.
- 1977
A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including three band members, are killed.
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Two police officers and a Brink's armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground in Nanuet, New York.
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During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
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Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes while landing at Kuibyshev Airport (now Kuromoch International Airport) in Kuibyshev (now present-day Samara, Russia), killing 70 people.
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A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and Berkeley, California killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, apartments and condominiums.
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Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-73.
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The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structures known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University.
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The general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passes the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
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Libyan Crisis: Rebel forces capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in his hometown of Sirte and kill them shortly thereafter, ending the first Libyan civil war.
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Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare victory in the Raqqa campaign.
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The BepiColombo spacecraft is launched on an Ariane 5 rocket to study Mercury.
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Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party amid the country's political crisis, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister (49 days).
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2002Yéremy Pino, Spanish footballer
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2001Paige Bueckers, American basketball player
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2000Kenneth Walker III, American football player
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1999Chuu, South Korean singer and television personality
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1999YoungBoy Never Broke Again, American rapper
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1997Ademola Lookman, Nigerian footballer
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1997Daizen Maeda, Japanese footballer
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1997Nguyễn Tiến Linh, Vietnamese footballer
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1997Andrey Rublev, Russian tennis player
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1996Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Indonesian badminton player
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1992Mattia De Sciglio, Italian footballer
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1992Ksenia Semyonova, Russian gymnast
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