Page 5: Historical Events In August - 20

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

1925  On August - 20 major Georges-P Vanier appointed CO of the 22e Régiment at Quebec.   

1925  On August - 20 wJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions   

1926  Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia on August - 20.   

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  On this day in history 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed   

1929  On this day in history norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)   

1930  On this day in history bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval   

1930  On August - 20 mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor   

1930  Charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies on August - 20.   

1931  On this day in history 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)   

1931  On August - 20 bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)   

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

1932  On August - 20 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  Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen on August - 20.   

1935  Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador on this day in history.   

1935  On August - 20 charles Shere, composer   

1935  On August - 20 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  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  On this day in history 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  1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain on this day in history.   

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

1942  On August - 20 dim-out regulations implemented in SF   

1942  On this day in history the birth of Isaac Hayes, American film actor   

1944  On August - 20 127 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 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 this day in history.   

1561  On August - 20 birth of jacopo Peri, composer   

1625  On this day in history birth of thomas Corneille, French playwright   

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 this day in history.   

1666  Alphonse d' Eve, composer was born on this day in history.   

0535  On this day in history death of mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick   

0984  On this day in history john XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies   

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 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 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 August - 20.