Page 5: Historical Events In August - 20

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

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  On August - 20 uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia   

1926  On this day in history nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach   

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

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

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

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  On August - 20 mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor   

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  On this day in history bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)   

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 August - 20 armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen   

1935  On this day in history milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador   

1935  Charles Shere, composer on August - 20.   

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

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

1937  On this day in history corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA)   

1938  Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam on August - 20.   

1939  On this day in history 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 August - 20.   

1940  On August - 20 leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21   

1940  On August - 20 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  Dim-out regulations implemented in SF on August - 20.   

1942  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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 August - 20.   

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

1561  Jacopo Peri, composer was born on this day in history.   

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  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  On August - 20 john XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies   

1153  Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies on August - 20.   

1384  Geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getijdenboek), dies on this day in history.   

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

1572  On this day in history death of miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)   

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

1632  On August - 20 death of valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38