Historical Events In August - 20
Thursday, 25 February 2021
1924 Jim Reeves, US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim) on August - 20.
1925 Major Georges-P Vanier appointed CO of the 22e Régiment at Quebec on this day in history.
1925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions on this day in history.
1926 Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia on this day in history.
1926 On August - 20 nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
1927 On this day in history geriatric1927, English video blogger
1929 First airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed on August - 20.
1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed on this day in history.
1929 Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital) on this day in history.
1930 Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval on August - 20.
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 August - 20.
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 On August - 20 emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
1933 Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86) on August - 20.
1934 On August - 20 ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
1934 On this day in history armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
1935 Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador on August - 20.
1935 Charles Shere, composer on this day in history.
1935 On August - 20 otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56
1936 Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina on this day in history.
1937 On this day in history corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA)
1938 Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam on this day in history.
1939 On August - 20 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1940 On this day in history 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"
1940 Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21 on this day in history.
1940 On this day in history 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1941 On August - 20 police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1942 On August - 20 dim-out regulations implemented in SF
1942 On this day in history the birth of Isaac Hayes, American film actor
1944 On this day in history 127 Flying Fortress Bombers drop high-explosives on the factory areas at Auschwitz, less than five miles east of the gas-chambers.
1944 "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway on August - 20.
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