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October 20, 1962: Vice-president Lyndon Johnson stops on Maui (and Oahu) to stump for Democratic party candidates, running in November’s mid-term general elections. What makes this visit interesting isn’t the obvious reasons for it, but rather the timing. On October 14, President John F. Kennedy announced that the USSR had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, and until October 29, the Cuban Missle Crisis raged. The day after LBJ visited Hawaii, Kennedy ordered the blockade of Cuba. Evidently, he didn’t need LBJ’s input for the decision.
October 20, 1962: Vice-president Lyndon Johnson stops on Maui (and Oahu) to stump for Democratic party candidates, running in November’s mid-term general elections. What makes this visit interesting isn’t the obvious reasons for it, but rather the timing. On October 14, President John F. Kennedy announced that the USSR had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, and until October 29, the Cuban Missle Crisis raged. The day after LBJ visited Hawaii, Kennedy ordered the blockade of Cuba. Evidently, he didn’t need LBJ’s input for the decision.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — October 20th
1944: Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
1973: Saturday Night Massacre: As ordered by President Nixon, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed by Solicitor General Bork (Attorney General Elliot Richardson & Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resigned refusing to fire Cox)
1977: 3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash
1990: Anti-war protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (U.S.-Iraq)
1991: Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
2000: Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who’d served in the Army, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
1973: Saturday Night Massacre: As ordered by President Nixon, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed by Solicitor General Bork (Attorney General Elliot Richardson & Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resigned refusing to fire Cox)
1977: 3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash
1990: Anti-war protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (U.S.-Iraq)
1991: Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
2000: Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who’d served in the Army, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
BORN ON THIS DAY — October 20th
1854: Arthur Rimbaud, poet/adventurer
1859: John Dewey, philosopher
1874: Charles Edward Ives, composer
1911: Will Rogers Jr, actor
1925: Art Buchwald, columnist/author
1934: Martin Landau, actor
1935: Jerry Orbach, actor
1946: Connie Chung, news anchor
1953: Tom Petty, singer
1970: Tiffany, (Renee Darwisch), rocker
1981: Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus), rapper
1854: Arthur Rimbaud, poet/adventurer
1859: John Dewey, philosopher
1874: Charles Edward Ives, composer
1911: Will Rogers Jr, actor
1925: Art Buchwald, columnist/author
1934: Martin Landau, actor
1935: Jerry Orbach, actor
1946: Connie Chung, news anchor
1953: Tom Petty, singer
1970: Tiffany, (Renee Darwisch), rocker
1981: Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus), rapper
