Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 20

Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
Battle at Yarmuk: Moslems beat Byzantines [or August 15]
Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
1191 : Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
1534 : Turkish admiral Chaireddin Barbaross aoccupies Tunis
1566 : Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
1585 : English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland
1597 : 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1604 : Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
1619 : 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
1641 : Britain & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
1648 : Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
1741 : Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1745 : Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1781 : George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1791 : Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska
1794 : Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
1795 : Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1852 : Steamer Atlantic collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
1856 : Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1861 : Skirmish at Jonesboro MO
1864 : 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties)
1865 : Pres Johnson proclaims an end to insurrection in Tx
1866 : Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1879 : Govt Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1882 : Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture opens in Moscow
1888 : Longest US men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats
1888 : T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
1893 : Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1895 : Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Norwood Builder (BG)
1896 : Dial telephone patented
1901 : Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1908 : A Kopff discovers asteroids #669 Kypria & #670 Ottegebe
1908 : Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1910 : US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1912 : Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 : Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1913 : 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe P‚goud-France)
1913 : Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1914 : -21] German General von Blow executes 211 Belgians
1914 : -24] Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre & Meuse, Mons
1914 : Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914 : Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1914 : Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France
1914 : German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1915 : Italy declares war on Turkey
1915 : Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500
1915 : White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth,
1918 : Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1919 : ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
1919 : Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit
1920 : 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
1920 : Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920 : Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal Ha-Refuah
1920 : Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players
1920 : to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
1922 : 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
1923 : London harbor strike ends
1925 : WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1926 : Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
1929 : 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1930 : Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1930 : E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1381 Danubia
1935 : C Jackson discovers asteroid #1474 Beira
1935 : Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
1938 : Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam
1939 : 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939 : Russ offensive under gen Zjoekov against Jap invasion in Mongolia
1940 : 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1940 : British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, Never in the
1940 : field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
1940 : Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21
1941 : Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1942 : Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
1944 : Anna Lucasta opens on Broadway
1944 : Gen de Gaulle returns to France
1944 : Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
1944 : US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
1945 : Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
1945 : Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
1945 : Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
1947 : Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1947 : Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1948 : 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1948 : US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1949 : 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
1949 : Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1952 : Stalin meets Chou Enlai
1953 : General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
1953 : Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1955 : 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
1955 : Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
1956 : Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1957 : Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
1957 : Simply Heavenly opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
1957 : USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957 : White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1958 : Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
1958 : Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 : Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1959 : Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
1960 : Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
1960 : USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1961 : East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the
1961 : west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
1962 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 : LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1964 : President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
1964 : Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
1965 : Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig
1965 : hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
1965 : Rolling Stones release Satisfaction (their 1st #1 US hit)
1966 : Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1966 : Crimean Astrophysical Obs discovers asteroid #2406 Orels);kaya
1967 : Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, & fired again as manager of A's
1968 : 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 : 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1970 : -21] Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
1971 : FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1971 : M Antal discovers asteroid #1807 Slovakia
1972 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 : Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1974 : Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
1974 : Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974 : Pres Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
1975 : Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 : Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1976 : Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #7626
1976 : M R Cesco discovers asteroid #5758
1977 : N S Chernykh discovers asteroid #7046
1977 : NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
1978 : Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
1978 : Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1978 : Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1979 : India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979 : N S Chernykh discovers asteroid #3618, #3818 Gorlitsa & #8246
1979 : Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
1980 : Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when
1980 : Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1980 : NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 : Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1980 : Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1980 : that all of Jersualem is it's capital
1980 : UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration
1980 : White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
1982 : C & E Shoemaker discover asteroids #3025 Higson & #3225 Hoag
1982 : Don Lever becomes 1st captain of NJ Devils
1982 : US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1983 : Miss National Teen-Ager
1985 : E Bowell discovers asteroid #3455 Kristensen
1985 : Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day
1985 : Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1985 : Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1985 : Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
1985 : trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1986 : Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986 : Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
1988 : 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1988 : Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1989 : Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1989 : Howard Johnson joins B Bonds & W Mays to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1989 : Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
1989 : Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
1990 : Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
1990 : George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 : Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1990 : NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
1990 : T Seki discovers asteroid #6244 & #7410
1991 : After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares
1991 : Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL
1991 : Estonia declares it's independence from USSR
1991 : itself independent
1991 : Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
1991 : player with a 5-year extension for $25 million 0
1992 : England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
1992 : Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
1993 : Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
1993 : Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
1993 : Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1994 : 109.8øF (43.2øC) in Cordoba Spain
1994 : Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
1994 : Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
1995 : Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save
1995 : L Sarounova discovers asteroid #7670 Kabelac
1995 : Play's the Thing closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 perfs
1996 : India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
1997 : Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
2002 : 20 police killed in Tripura Militant attack
2002 : BCCI decides to send a new team for the ICC trophy next month
2002 : Power Minister Suresh Prabhu resigns

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