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

1929  Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital) on August - 20.   

1930  On August - 20 bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval   

1930  On this day in history 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  Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87 on August - 20.   

1933  On August - 20 don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)   

1934  On August - 20 ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match   

1934  On this day in history armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen   

1935  Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador on August - 20.   

1935  On this day in history charles Shere, composer   

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

1936  Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina on August - 20.   

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

1938  On August - 20 lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam   

1939  On August - 20 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 this day in history.   

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 August - 20.   

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

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1517  On this day in history birth of antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75)   

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 this day in history birth of thomas Corneille, French playwright   

1632  On August - 20 birth of louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)   

1637  Cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam was born on this day in history.   

1665  Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed) was born on August - 20.   

1666  On August - 20 birth of alphonse d' Eve, composer   

0535  Death of Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick on August - 20.   

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

1153  On this day in history bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies   

1384  On this day in history geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getijdenboek), dies   

1538  Death of Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake on this day in history.   

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

1580  Death of Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506) on this day in history.   

1632  On this day in history death of valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38