Historical Events In August - 20

1924  On August - 20 jim Reeves, US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim)   

1925  On August - 20 major Georges-P Vanier appointed CO of the 22e Régiment at Quebec.   

1925  WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions on this day in history.   

1926  On August - 20 uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia   

1926  Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach on August - 20.   

1927  On this day in history geriatric1927, English video blogger   

1929  First airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed on this day in history.   

1929  1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed on August - 20.   

1929  On August - 20 norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)   

1930  Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval on this day in history.   

1930  On this day in history mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor   

1930  On August - 20 charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies   

1931  45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61) on this day in history.   

1931  Bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th) on this day in history.   

1931  Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1932  Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87 on August - 20.   

1933  On this day in history don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)   

1934  On August - 20 ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match   

1934  On August - 20 armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen   

1935  Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador on August - 20.   

1935  On August - 20 charles Shere, composer   

1935  On this day in history otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56   

1936  Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina on this day in history.   

1937  Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA) on August - 20.   

1938  On this day in history lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam   

1939  On August - 20 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)   

1940  British PM Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" on this day in history.   

1940  Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21 on August - 20.   

1940  1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain on this day in history.   

1941  On this day in history police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males   

1942  Dim-out regulations implemented in SF on this day in history.   

1942  The birth of Isaac Hayes, American film actor on August - 20.   

1944  On August - 20 127 Flying Fortress Bombers drop high-explosives on the factory areas at Auschwitz, less than five miles east of the gas-chambers.   

1944  On this day in history "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway   

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1517  Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75) was born on this day in history.   

1526  On this day in history birth of peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum)   

1561  On this day in history birth of jacopo Peri, composer   

1625  On August - 20 birth of thomas Corneille, French playwright   

1632  On August - 20 birth of louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)   

1637  On this day in history birth of cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam   

1665  On August - 20 birth of bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed)   

1666  Alphonse d' Eve, composer was born on August - 20.   

0535  Death of Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick on this day in history.   

0984  John XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies on August - 20.   

1153  On August - 20 bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies   

1384  On August - 20 geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getijdenboek), dies   

1538  On this day in history death of aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake   

1572  Death of Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502) on August - 20.   

1580  Death of Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506) on August - 20.   

1632  Death of Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38 on this day in history.