This Day, That Year – October 20

“The Return of the King”, the third and final volume of “The Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien, was published by George Allen and Unwin on this day in 1955.

Did you know that:

• Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube) on this day in 1906
• The first appearance of a cork centered baseball in the World Series was on this day in 1910
• Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and James Lovelock gave the first demonstration of gas chromatography at a meeting of the Biochemical Society on this day in 1950