Daily Archives: October 20, 2018

Dodgers beat Athletics to win World Series 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 20 1988)


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(Thursday, October 20, 1988, at approximately 5:35 p.m.- 8:26 p.m. PDT) — The Los Angeles Dodgers won the 1988 World Series tonight, beating the Oakland Athletics 5-2 at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California, in the fifth and deciding game. Continue reading Dodgers beat Athletics to win World Series 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 20 1988)

Jackie Kennedy weds Aristotle Onassis on Greek island 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 20 1968)


Video: 'Jackie Kennedy Aristotle Onassis 1968'

(Sunday, October 20, 1968) — Less than five years after the assassination of her husband, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and four months after the assassination of her brother-in-law U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, 39, married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 62, today in a candle-lit wedding ceremony in a Greek Orthodox chapel among the cypress trees on the Greek island of Skorpios. Continue reading Jackie Kennedy weds Aristotle Onassis on Greek island 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 20 1968)