Page 5: Historical Events In August - 20

1924  Jim Reeves, US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim) on this day in history.   

1925  On this day in history 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 this day in history uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia   

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

1927  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.   

1930  On August - 20 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 August - 20.   

1931  On this day in history waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64   

1932  On this day in history emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87   

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

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 this day in history.   

1935  Charles Shere, composer on this day in history.   

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

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 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  On August - 20 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  On August - 20 leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21   

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

1941  Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history dim-out regulations implemented in SF   

1942  The birth of Isaac Hayes, American film actor on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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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  Jacopo Peri, composer was born on August - 20.   

1625  Thomas Corneille, French playwright was born on August - 20.   

1632  Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704) was born on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getijdenboek), dies   

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

1632  Death of Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38 on August - 20.