It was on this date in 1917, police arrested suffragette Alice Paul for obstructing traffic outside of the White House. And it was on this date in 1920 that a natural gas explosion leveled one-square-mile of Cleveland, Ohio.
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Mark's Almanac for October 20, 2020
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