August 20, 2008

Nacimientos:

1833	Benjamin Harrison, Former (23rd) US President
1890	H.P Lovecraft, American writer
1924	Jim Reeves, American country singer
1937	Jim Bowen, Comedian
1942	Isaac Hayes, American film actor
1952	John Embury, Cricketer

Acontecimientos:

1914	German forces occupied the Belgian city of Brussels
1917	Bathing by Berlin residents was banned, to save water and coal
1940	Leon Trotsky, the Russian politician, was murdered
1956	Britain's first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, began operating
1968	Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia
1975	The US probe Viking I was launched; first craft to send pictures from the surface of Mars
1977	The US spacecraft Voyager 2 was launched to the outer solar system
1990	Britons were held hostage at Iraqi miltary installations, during the Gulf War

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