October 20th:
2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.
1992 - The Madonna album "Erotica" was released.
1977 - Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines (Steve's sister) and road manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed when their plane crashed in Gillsburg, MS. The other four members of the band were seriously injured but survived the crash.
1973 - "The Joker" was released by the Steve Miller Band.
1973 - The Sydney Opera house officially opened.
1962 - The Four Seasons released "Big Girls Don't Cry."
1961 - Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album was recorded.
1955 - "Day-O" was recorded by Harry Belafonte.
1935 - Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi after his Long March that took just over a year. He then set up the Chinese Communist Headquarters.
Willis McGahee (Running back for American Football's (NFL) Buffalo Bills) 1981
Thomas Wisniewski (Guitarist for Christian speed-punk band MxPx) 1971
Dannii Minogue (Australian pop singer, Kylie's younger sister, released her first single in 1991) 1971
Snoop Dogg (rapper: "Gin and Juice", "Drop It Like It's Hot") 1970
Tom Petty ("American Girl", "Walls", "Free Falling", "Don't Come Around Here No More", "Into the Great Wide Open", "Running Down a Dream", "Room at the Top", "Breakdown", "Refugee", "You Wreck Me") 1950
Wanda Jackson (rockabilly singer of the 1950s-80s: "Let's Have a Party", "Window Up Above", "Kansas City", "Making Believe", "Mean Mean Man", "Cool Love") 1937
Bela Lugosi (Hungarian actor was the title role in the original 1931 movie version of "Dracula") 1882


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