Page 5: Historical Events In August - 20

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

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 August - 20 geriatric1927, English video blogger   

1929  On August - 20 first airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed   

1929  1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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  On August - 20 bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)   

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  On August - 20 don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)   

1934  Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match on this day in history.   

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  On August - 20 charles Shere, composer   

1935  Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56 on August - 20.   

1936  On this day in history carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina   

1937  On August - 20 corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA)   

1938  On August - 20 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  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  On August - 20 dim-out regulations implemented in SF   

1942  On August - 20 the birth of Isaac Hayes, American film actor   

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

1944  "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway on August - 20.   

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

1526  Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum) was born on August - 20.   

1561  On August - 20 birth of jacopo Peri, composer   

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

1632  On this day in history birth of louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)   

1637  On August - 20 birth of cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam   

1665  On this day in history birth of bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed)   

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

0535  Death of Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick on August - 20.   

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

1153  On this day in history bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies   

1384  Geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getijdenboek), dies on August - 20.   

1538  Death of Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake on August - 20.   

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.