Reuters historical calendar - October 20

LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 20 since 1900: 1935 - Mao Zedong and his Communist forces ended their ''Long March'' at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, northwest China, one year after beginning their epic flight from Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang armies in the southeast.

1944 - In World War Two, Russian and Yugoslav forces captured Belgrade from German forces.

1960 - The trial started in London of Penguin Books, charged with contravening Britain's Obscene Publications Act by publishing D.H.

Lawrence's novel ''Lady Chatterley's Lover''.

1962 - Chinese troops launched an offensive on Indian military posts along the Himalayan border.

1964 - Herbert Hoover, who served as 31st president of the United States from 1929-33, died.

1968 - Jackie Kennedy married the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, ending nearly five years of widowhood since the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1986 - Likud party leader Yitzhak Shamir took over as Israeli prime minister from Labour's Shimon Peres under a 1984 power-sharing arrangement.

1995 - Willy Claes quit as NATO secretary-general, brought down by a Belgian corruption scandal after a year in the job.

2002 - Iraq began to release political prisoners under an unprecedented amnesty issued by Saddam Hussein to inmates and exiles to mark his perfect 100 percent win in an election.

2003 - Jack Elam, U.S. film character actor and Western villain, died. Elam was best known for his appearances in ''Support Your Local Sheriff'', ''Rawhide'' and ''Once Upon a Time in the West''.

2004 - Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's first directly elected president, took office.

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