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 August - 20.   

1925  On August - 20 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  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  Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital) on August - 20.   

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  On this day in history 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)   

1931  On this day in history bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)   

1931  On August - 20 waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64   

1932  Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87 on August - 20.   

1933  On this day in history don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)   

1934  Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match on August - 20.   

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

1936  On August - 20 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  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 this day in history.   

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

1941  On this day in history police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males   

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  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 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 this day in history 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  Alphonse d' Eve, composer was born on August - 20.   

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  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  On this day in history death of aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake   

1572  Death of Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502) on August - 20.   

1580  Death of Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506) on August - 20.   

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