August 20 Events in History

2010	Game-maker NCsoft is sued by a man claiming he would not have played Lineage II if he knew it was addictive and render him unable to function
2010	Thousands of Kyrgyzstani's rally in response to rumors that Osh's mayor was fired by Kyrgyzstan's interim government
1997	Shelly Moore, 18, of Tennessee, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
1996	India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
1995	"Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 75 performances
1995	Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save
1995	Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1994	109.8 degrees F (43.2 degrees C) in Cordoba, Spain
1994	Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
1994	Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
1993	Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
1993	Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago, Illinois
1993	Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1992	England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
1992	Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
1991	Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
1991	Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
1991	Estonia declares it's independence from U.S.S.R. itself independent
1990	Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson
1990	George Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankee owner
1990	Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1990	New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 home runs (approx 132 at bat)
1989	Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1989	Howard Johnson joins B Bonds and W Mays to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases
1989	Janet Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
1989	Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
1988	6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1988	Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1986	Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986	Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
1985	1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
1985	Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1985	Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1985	Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
1985	Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1982	Don Lever becomes 1st captain of New Jersey Devils
1982	U.S. Marines land in Beirut, Lebanon
1980	Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1980	New York Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980	Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1980	Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mount Everest
1980	Cleveland Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
1980	U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital
1979	India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979	Singer Vikki Carr and Michael Nilsson wed
1978	Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
1978	Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1978	Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1978	Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1977	NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
1975	Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975	Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1974	Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1974	Nelson Rockefeller becomes V.P.
1974	Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974	President Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
1972	Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1972	U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1971	FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1970	Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
1969	69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1968	650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1967	Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, and fired again as manager of A's
1967	Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1966	Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1965	Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 U.S. hit)
1965	Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954 - 1965) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 home runs while playing together on the same team
1964	Lyndon Baines Johnson signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1964	President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
1964	Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 vs. India in only Test Cricket innings
1964	Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
1962	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961	Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
1961	East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
1960	Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
1960	U.S.S.R. recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1959	Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
1958	Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958	Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1957	"Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 62 performances
1957	Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0
1957	USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957	White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1956	Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1955	1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale, California
1955	Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria
1953	General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
1953	Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1952	Stalin meets Chou Enlai
1949	78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
1949	Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1948	15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1948	U.S. expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1947	Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1947	Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1945	Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a home run
1945	Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
1945	Russian troops occupy Harbin and Mukden
1945	Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodger becomes youngest home run hitter (17)
1944	"Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
1944	26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G and CC Spokane Wash
1944	General de Gaulle returns to France
1944	Russian offensive at Jassy and Kisjinev
1944	U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
1942	Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco
1941	Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1940	1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1940	Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21
1940	British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force,  "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
1939	1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939	Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia
1938	Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd and last grand slam
1935	Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador
1934	Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
1931	45th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)
1930	Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval
1930	Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (New York City)
1929	1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1926	Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
1925	WJR-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions
1923	London harbor strike ends
1922	1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
1921	35th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62)
1920	1st U.S. coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
1920	Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920	Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
1920	Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1920	Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow I ndian players to attend Ray Chapman's f uneral in Cleveland
1919	Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit,ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
1918	Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1915	Italy declares war on Turkey
1915	White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleveland in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500
1914	Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre and Meuse, Mons
1914	Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914	Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1914	Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France
1914	German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1913	1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France)
1913	Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1912	Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912	Washington Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1910	U.S. supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1908	Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1901	Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1900	Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
1896	Dial telephone patented
1895	Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder"
1893	Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1888	Longest U.S. men's single tournament match Palmer  Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
1882	Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
1879	Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1866	President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1865	President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
1864	8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia (about 3900 casualties)
1856	Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1852	Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
1795	Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1794	General Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
1791	Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska
1781	George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1745	Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1741	Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1648	Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
1641	Britain and Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
1619	1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
1604	Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
1597	1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1585	English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland
1566	Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
1534	Turkish Admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1191	Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
917	Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
573	Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
2	Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem