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On This Day: Oct. 20

By Photos by Associated Press

Oct. 19, 2020

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A hundred feet beneath the surface of the tide swept East River, 1,800 plastic-helmeted laborers and engineers have been blasting through solid rock and muck to build the world's second largest underwater vehicular tunnel linking Manhattan and Brooklyn, on Oct. 20, 1947.
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U.S. troopers move through burning shacks in the Sunchon/Sukchon area of North Korea on Oct. 20, 1950.
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Photographers who covered the World Series for the Associated Press talk with Johnny Hopp, Cardinal outfielder in dugout before a World Series game at St. Louis on Oct. 20, 1944. Left to right: Paul Cannon, Chicago; Hopp; Edward Kitch, St. Louis, John Rooney, New York and Harry Hall, Chicago.
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The wreckage of a twin engine Convair 240 plane lies in a wooded area near McComb, Miss., on Oct. 20, 1977. The small plane had 26 people on board, and six were killed in the crash, including three members of The Lynyrd Skynyrd Band.
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A wounded South Vietnamese soldier grimaces in pain as he is carried from an embattled hamlet along Highway 13, North of Saigon on Oct. 20, 1972.
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Major Ernesto "Che" Guevara is shown at his desk with cigar in hand in Havana, Cuba, on Oct. 20, 1960.
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This view from the North tower of the World Trade Center shows construction of the center's South tower in New York, on Oct. 20, 1970.
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Aristotle Onassis stands with his new wife Jacqueline Kennedy after their marriage in the tiny chapel on the Island of Scorpios in Greece on Oct. 20, 1968. Jackie and Aristotle are seen aboard the yacht "Christina."
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In this Oct. 20, 1987 photo, passers-by watch the ticker on 42nd Street at Grand Central Station in New York, as the Dow Jones industrial average gained over 100 points, after falling an unprecedented 500 points the day prior.
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Henry Watson, center, is flanked by his mother Joyce, second from left, and his sister Roschelle Bailey, second from right, as they make a statement to the media at his parents' home in Los Angeles, on Oct. 20, 1993. Watson was released from jail after the jury in the Reginald Denny beating trail deadlocked on the final charge outstanding against him and the judge declared a mistrial on the charge.
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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, left, announces on Oct. 20, 1999, in Chicago, that a new piece of public art, a 60-foot wide, 30-foot tall elliptical sculpture by Indian artist Anish Kapoor, will be placed in the city's Millennium Park, which is scheduled to open in 2001. The sculpture is funded in part by a $3 million donation from Ameritech. A small model of the sculpture is shown at right.
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In this Oct. 20, 2000 photo, PayPal Chief Executive Officer Peter Thiel, left, and founder Elon Musk, right, pose with the PayPal logo at corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Thiel who who co-founded PayPal and gave Facebook its first big investment now wants Silicon Valley to buy into a bigger idea: the future. Thiel is backing groups that see a future when computers will communicate directly with the human brain. Seafaring pioneers will found new floating nations in the middle of the ocean. Science will conquer aging, and death will become a curable disease.
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2 Live Crew leader Luther Campbell, right, jumps from the defense table after a not guilty verdict was returned in the group's highly publicized obscenity trial in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Oct. 20, 1990. Celebrating with Campbell is attorney Bruce Rogow.
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