Today in History - History - October 20th

1979Bob Dylan appears on Saturday Night Live

1957Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary

1944US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines

1889Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," premieres in Berlin

1963South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy

1634English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax

1984Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals

1833Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana

1950Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and James Lovelock give the first demonstration of gas chromatography at a meeting of the Biochemical Society. The technique is rapidly adopted by the petrochemical industry.

1935Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up

1891James Chadwick, English physicist (discovered neutron)

1971Snoop Dogg [Calvin Broadus], Long Beach, California, rapper (What's My Name, Gin & Juice)

1953Keith Hernandez, San Francisco California, MLB 1st baseman (St Louis Cardinals, NY Mets)

1891Jomo Kenyatta, Gatundu Kenya, Kenyan leader and 1st Premier (1963-78)

1904Tommy Douglas, Falkirk Scotland, Canadian politician ("Father of Medicare")

1882Bela Lugosi [Blaskó ], Lugos, Austria-Hungary, actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space)

1854Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations)

1859John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing)

1931Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown)

1632Christopher Wren, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, astronomer/great architect (St. Paul's Cathedral), (d. 1723)

185323rd US President Benjamin Harrison (20) weds music teacher Caroline Scott (21)

2013Singer Kelly Clarkson (31) weds talent manager Brandon Blackstock at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee

2001Actor Johnathon Schaech (32) weds actress Christina Applegate (29) at the three-acre Cree Estate in Palm Springs, California

1949Constitutional lawyer Phyllis Schlafly (25) weds attorney John Fred Schlafly, Jr.

1978Journalist Ben Bradlee (57) weds fellow journalist Sally Quinn (37)

1973Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty

1890Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)

1964Herbert Hoover, 31st President of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90

1871Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor (calculator), dies of renal failure at 79

2010Bob Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse magazine), dies at 79

2006Jane Wyatt, American actress, dies at 96

1984Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 82