August 20
Today is the 233rd day of 2016, there are 133 days left in the year.
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
1866 - Months after fighting in the Civil War had ended, President Andrew Johnson issued Proclamation 157, which declared that "peace, order, tranquility and civil authority now exist in and throughout the whole of the United States of America."
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" had its premiere in Moscow.
1914 - German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium during World War I.
1918 - Britain opened an offensive on the Western front during World War I.
1940 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
1953 - The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1955 - Hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
1964 - As part of his Great Society policies, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the nearly $1 billion anti-poverty Economic Opportunity Act, which among other things, established the Head Start program.
1968 - The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.
1977 - The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. It continues to explore to this day and is currently more than 7 billion miles from Earth.
1980 - Italian Reinhold Messner made the first successful solo ascent of Mount Everest and without oxygen.
1989 - Entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife, Kitty, were shot to death in their Beverly Hills mansion by their sons, Lyle and Erik.
1992 - The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.
1998 - Retaliating for deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.
2006 - Former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising picture during World War II, died at age 94.
2009 - Voting in Afghanistan's presidential election was marred by rampant ballot-box stuffing. (Hamid Karzai was declared the winner in November.)
2009 - The only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returned home to Libya after his release from a Scottish prison based on compassionate grounds.
Birthdays
21 - Liana Liberato (actress)
24 - Demi Lovato (singer)
31 - Brant Daugherty (actor)
33 - Andrew Garfield (actor)
34 - Meghan Ory (actress)
35 - Ben Barnes (actor)
40 - Nicole Curtis (TV host)
42 - Misha Collins (actor)
42 - Amy Adams (actress)
45 - David Williams (comedian)
46 - Fred Durst (rapper)
54 - James Masters (actor)
62 - Al Roker (TV weatherman)
70 - Connie Chung (news anchor)
73 - Sylvester McCoy (actor)
81 - Ron Paul (politician)
85 - Don King (boxing promoter)
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Today in Sports History - August 20
1920 - Representatives of four professional football clubs met in the first of two meetings in Canton, Ohio. The meetings led to the founding of the American Professional Football Association. Two years later the APFA officially became the National Football League.
1945 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Tommy Brown becomes youngest home run hitter (age 17).
1958 - Dale Long becomes first major league lefty catcher in 52 years.
1961 - The Philadelphia Phillies set a major league record with their 23rd straight loss.
1985 - Dwight Gooden became the first National League pitcher to strike out more than 200 batters in each of his first two seasons.
1990 - George Steinbrenner steps down as owner of the New York Yankees.
2000 - Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship, becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one year.
2005 - Thomas Herrion (San Francisco 49ers) collapsed and died after a preseason game in Denver.
2008 - Jamaica's Usain Bolt sets a new world record in the 200 meter dash at the Beijing Olympic Games with a time of 19.30 seconds.
2009 - At the World Track & Field Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt lowers his own world record in the 200 meters to 19.19 seconds.
Today is the 233rd day of 2016, there are 133 days left in the year.
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
1866 - Months after fighting in the Civil War had ended, President Andrew Johnson issued Proclamation 157, which declared that "peace, order, tranquility and civil authority now exist in and throughout the whole of the United States of America."
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" had its premiere in Moscow.
1914 - German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium during World War I.
1918 - Britain opened an offensive on the Western front during World War I.
1940 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
1953 - The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1955 - Hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
1964 - As part of his Great Society policies, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the nearly $1 billion anti-poverty Economic Opportunity Act, which among other things, established the Head Start program.
1968 - The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.
1977 - The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. It continues to explore to this day and is currently more than 7 billion miles from Earth.
1980 - Italian Reinhold Messner made the first successful solo ascent of Mount Everest and without oxygen.
1989 - Entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife, Kitty, were shot to death in their Beverly Hills mansion by their sons, Lyle and Erik.
1992 - The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.
1998 - Retaliating for deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.
2006 - Former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising picture during World War II, died at age 94.
2009 - Voting in Afghanistan's presidential election was marred by rampant ballot-box stuffing. (Hamid Karzai was declared the winner in November.)
2009 - The only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returned home to Libya after his release from a Scottish prison based on compassionate grounds.
Birthdays
21 - Liana Liberato (actress)
24 - Demi Lovato (singer)
31 - Brant Daugherty (actor)
33 - Andrew Garfield (actor)
34 - Meghan Ory (actress)
35 - Ben Barnes (actor)
40 - Nicole Curtis (TV host)
42 - Misha Collins (actor)
42 - Amy Adams (actress)
45 - David Williams (comedian)
46 - Fred Durst (rapper)
54 - James Masters (actor)
62 - Al Roker (TV weatherman)
70 - Connie Chung (news anchor)
73 - Sylvester McCoy (actor)
81 - Ron Paul (politician)
85 - Don King (boxing promoter)
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Today in Sports History - August 20
1920 - Representatives of four professional football clubs met in the first of two meetings in Canton, Ohio. The meetings led to the founding of the American Professional Football Association. Two years later the APFA officially became the National Football League.
1945 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Tommy Brown becomes youngest home run hitter (age 17).
1958 - Dale Long becomes first major league lefty catcher in 52 years.
1961 - The Philadelphia Phillies set a major league record with their 23rd straight loss.
1985 - Dwight Gooden became the first National League pitcher to strike out more than 200 batters in each of his first two seasons.
1990 - George Steinbrenner steps down as owner of the New York Yankees.
2000 - Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship, becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one year.
2005 - Thomas Herrion (San Francisco 49ers) collapsed and died after a preseason game in Denver.
2008 - Jamaica's Usain Bolt sets a new world record in the 200 meter dash at the Beijing Olympic Games with a time of 19.30 seconds.
2009 - At the World Track & Field Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt lowers his own world record in the 200 meters to 19.19 seconds.
