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The history of today

OCTOBER 20


The Oct. 20, 1912, Advertiser reported on concerns that some Big Island schools did not have enough desks for students.

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1944: Gen. Douglas MacArthur steps ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after saying, "I shall return."

1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into alleged communist influence and infiltration within the American motion picture industry.

1962: Vice President Lyndon Johnson spends less than a day in Hawai'i, visiting both O'ahu and Maui to campaign for local Democrats.

1968: Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

1973: In the biggest government upheaval of the Watergate crisis, President Nixon fires special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus and accepts the resignation of Attorney General Elliott Richardson. It came to be known as the Saturday Night Massacre.

1995: France, the United States and Britain announce a treaty banning atomic blasts in the South Pacific.


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