Today is Tuesday, October 20, the 293rd day of 2015. There are 72 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1714, the coronation of Britain’s King George I took place in Westminster Abbey.
In 1803, the U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
In 1914, “Stay Down Here Where You Belong,” an antiwar song by Irving Berlin, was published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. in New York.
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In 1936, Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, died in Forest Hills, New York, at age 70.
In 1944, during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after saying, “I shall return.” A series of gas storage tank explosions and fires in Cleveland killed 130 people.
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