Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of August 20:
1778 Bernardo O'Higgins won independence for Chile
1785 Oliver Hazard Perry US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
1833 Benjamin Harrison North Bend, Ohio (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)
1860 Raymond Poincar‚ France, PM (1912), president
1873 Eliel Saarinen Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich)
1881 Edgar Albert Guest Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
1890 H.P. Lovecraft US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness)
19-- "Diamond" Darrell rocker (Pantera-Cowboys From Hell)
19-- Louis Svitek rocker (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
19-- Norma Connolly Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)
19-- Peter Davies actor (Loving)
19-- Phyllis Lyons actress (Arlene Vaughan-All My Children)
1901 Salvatore Quasimodo Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959)
1907 Alan Reed NYC, actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone)
1907 Shirley Booth NYC, actress (Hazel-Hazel, A Touch of Grace)
1908 Alfonso Lopez baseball player (AL Manager of the year 1959)
1920 Istv n Sziv¢s Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1921 Jacqueline Susann Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls)
1931 Don King boxing promoter, shocking hairstyle
1933 George Mitchell (Sen-D-Me, Senate Whip 1989- )
1935 Justin Tubb San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1937 George Thoma German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
1938 Jean-Loup Chr‚tien 1st French traveler in space (on Soyuz T-6)
1940 Sam Melville Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks)
1941 William H Gray III Baton Rouge La, (Rep-D-Pa, 1978- )
1942 Hans-Joachim Klein German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1942 Isaac Hayes composer (Shaft)
1944 Graig Nettles 3rd baseman (NY Yankees, SD Padres, Cleve Indians)
1944 Rajiv Gandhi PM of India (1984- )
1946 Connie Chung TV newscaster (NBC, CBS)
1948 Robert Plant rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1953 Peter Horton Bellevue Wash, actor (Gary-30 Something)
1955 Jay Acovone Mahopac NY, actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
1957 Cindy Nicholas Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times
1957 Jim "Bullseye" Bowen British TV game show host
1958 Lenny Henry British comedian (3 of a Kind)
1960 Elizabeth Alda daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons)
1961 Linda Mantz NYC, actress (Frankie-Dorothy)
1961 Rick Rael heavy metal rocker
1964 Giuseppe Giannini Rome Italy, soccer player (Rome A Team)
1966 Courtney Gibbs Miss USA (1988)/actress (Baywatch)
1971 Ke Huy Quan Saigon Vietnam, actor (Sam-Together We Stand)
Deaths which occurred on August 20:
1804 Charles Floyd only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
1914 Pope Pius X dies
1915 Paul Ehrlich scientist, dies in Hamburg at 61
1940 Leon Trotsky icepicked by Frank Jackson
1961 Vilhjalmur Stefansson Arctic explorer, dies at 82
1982 Ulla Jacobsson Swedish actress, dies in Vienna at 53 of bone cnacer
1985 Harchand Singh Longowai Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
1986 Donn Bennett TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
1986 Walter Brooke actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
1991 Lenore Strunsky Gershwin widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1966 MILIKIN RICHARD M.III MIAMI FL 1968 LINDBLOOM CHARLES DAVID ATLANTA GA 1968 RISNER RICHARD F. 08/22/68 ESCAPED ALIVE IN 99 1972 MOSSMAN HARRY S. MANHASSET NY
1781 George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1794 Gen Mad Anthony Wayne routes Indians at Fallen Timbers, Ohio
1852 Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
1865 Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
1866 Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
1896 Dial telephone patented
1908 Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe P‚goud-France)
1914 German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I
1918 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1920 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
1920 Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1929 1st airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed
1930 Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1939 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"
1940 Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21
1942 Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
1944 "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
1945 Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
1947 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1948 US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1949 78,382 watch the White Sox play the Indians at Cleveland
1949 Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1953 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
1955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
1956 Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1957 Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
1957 USAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957 White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1960 Senegal breaks from the Mali federation; declaring independence
1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight losses
1964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act (totaling nearly $1 billion)
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
1968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1971 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
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
1979 Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
1980 NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1980 UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital
1982 Don Lever becomes the 1st captain of the NJ Devils
1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Goodin)
1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US
1985 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986 Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in the 9th
1988 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Hungary : Constitution Day (1949)
Senegal : Independence Day (1960)
Hawaii : Admission Day (1959)
- - - - - ( Friday ) Mich : Montrose-Blueberry Festival
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Religious Observances
Unification Church : The Day of Total Victory
Ang, RC, Luth : Memorial of St Bernard, abbot at Clairvaux, doctor
Religious History
1553 Protestant reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.'
1745 Birth of Francis Asbury, English Methodist missionary and circuit-riding bishop of the American colonies. During 42 years of labor, Asbury traveled 300,000 miles by horseback, ministering up and down the Eastern seaboard.
1884 Birth of Rudolf Bultmann, German New Testament scholar. He pioneered Form Criticism with his History of the Synoptic Tradition (1921), whereby he sought to identify the devices of Hebrew speech in order to make the central Gospel message meaningful to moderns.
1886 Birth of Paul Tillich, German philosophical theologian. Tillich advocated "myth" as a signpost, participating in the reality to which it points. Evangelicals generally criticize Tillich today for his pantheistic views of God.
1958 A pentecostal sect, formed by Grady R. Kent out of the Church of God of Prophecy, formally adopted as its name "The Church of God of All Nations." The denomination is headquartered today in Cleveland, Tennessee.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
