Today in History - History - September 20th

1932Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables

1939Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1879Ulysses S. Grant and family go to SF for elaborate extended visit

1953Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR

1833Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires

1187Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

19192nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY

1976Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women

1973Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match

1955Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH

1884Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)

1951Guy Lafleur, Thurso Quebec, NHL right wing (Montreal, NY Rangers)

1917[Arnold] Red Auerbach, Brooklyn New York, NBA coach/GM (Boston Celtic)

1934Sophia Loren, Rome, actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)

1878Upton Beall Sinclair, Baltimore, Maryland, US writer (Jungle), (d. 1968)

1833Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Milan, Italy, journalist/soldier/pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), (d. 1918)

1983Actor James Woods (36) divorces costume designer Kathryn Morrison after 3 years of marriage

1951Actor Jackie Coogan (36) divorces Ann McCormack after 5 years of marriage

1945Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz, commits suicide at 36

1863Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78