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  On this day in history wJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions  

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

1926  On August - 20 nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach  

1927  Geriatric1927, English video blogger on this day in history.  

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 this day in history norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)  

1930  Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval on August - 20.  

1930  Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor on this day in history.  

1930  Charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64  

1932  Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.  

1933  Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86) on this day in history.  

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

1934  On August - 20 armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen  

1935  On August - 20 milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador  

1935  On August - 20 charles Shere, composer  

1935  On August - 20 otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56  

1936  On August - 20 carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina  

1937  Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA) on this day in history.  

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

1939  1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc) on this day in history.  

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 August - 20.  

1940  On this day in history leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21  

1940  1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain on August - 20.  

1941  Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males on August - 20.  

1942  Dim-out regulations implemented in SF on August - 20.  

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

1944  127 Flying Fortress Bombers drop high-explosives on the factory areas at Auschwitz, less than five miles east of the gas-chambers on this day in history.  

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

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1517  On August - 20 birth of antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75)  

1526  Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum) was born on this day in history.  

1561  Jacopo Peri, composer was born on August - 20.  

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

1632  Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704) was born on August - 20.  

1637  Cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam was born on this day in history.  

1665  Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed) was born on August - 20.  

1666  On this day in history birth of alphonse d' Eve, composer  

0535  On August - 20 death of mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick  

0984  John XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies on this day in history.  

1153  Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies on this day in history.  

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

1538  On August - 20 death of aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake  

1572  Death of Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502) on this day in history.  

1580  On this day in history death of jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)  

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