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

1926  Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia on this day in history.   

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

1927  Geriatric1927, English video blogger on August - 20.   

1929  First airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed on August - 20.   

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

1929  Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital) on this day in history.   

1930  Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval on August - 20.   

1930  On this day in history mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor   

1930  On August - 20 charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies   

1931  On August - 20 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  Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

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

1933  Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86) on August - 20.   

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

1934  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1935  Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

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

1937  Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA) on this day in history.   

1938  Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam on this day in history.   

1939  On August - 20 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 this day in history leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21   

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  The birth of Isaac Hayes, American film actor on August - 20.   

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  On this day in history "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway   

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1517  Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75) was born on August - 20.   

1526  On August - 20 birth of peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum)   

1561  On August - 20 birth of jacopo Peri, composer   

1625  Thomas Corneille, French playwright was born on this day in history.   

1632  On August - 20 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 August - 20 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  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  Death of Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506) on this day in history.   

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