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| Birthday August 20, 1778 Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile |
| Birthday August 20, 1833 Benjamin Harrison, (R), 23rd Pres (1889-1893) in North Bend, Ohio |
| Birthday August 20, 1833 Benjamin Harrison is born |
| Birthday August 20, 1860 Raymond Poincare, French prime minister (1912), president |
| Birthday August 20, 1873 Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect |
| Birthday August 20, 1881 Edgar A Guest, poet |
| Birthday August 20, 1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, critic, translator (Nobel 1959) |
| Birthday August 20, 1918 Jacqueline Susann born |
| Birthday August 20, 1918 Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann born |
| Birthday August 20, 1920 Professional football is born |
| Birthday August 20, 1921 Jacqueline Susann, writer (Valley of the Dolls) |
| Birthday August 20, 1925 Lola Albright, in Ohio |
| Birthday August 20, 1933 George Mitchell, (Sen-D-Me) |
| Birthday August 20, 1938 Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st French traveler in space (on Soyuz T-6) |
| Birthday August 20, 1940 Sam Melville, Actor |
| Birthday August 20, 1942 Isaac Hayes, composer |
| Birthday August 20, 1944 Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-, ) |
| Birthday August 20, 1946 Connie Chung, TV newscaster (NBC) |
| Birthday August 20, 1951 Guy Lafleur, NHL star |
| History August 20, 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers |
| History August 20, 1804 Corps of Discovery suffers its only death |
| History August 20, 1862 Horace Greeley's The Prayer of Twenty Millions is published |
| History August 20, 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over |
| History August 20, 1914 German forces occupied Brussels Belgium during WW I. |
| History August 20, 1918 Britain opened its offensive on the Western front during WW I |
| History August 20, 1920 US's 1st coml radio 8MK later WWJ Detroit began daily broadcasting |
| History August 20, 1930 Dumont's 1st TV Broadcast for home reception NY city |
| History August 20, 1932 German artist unveils monument honoring soldiers killed in World War I |
| History August 20, 1940 Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City by agents of Stalin |
| History August 20, 1940 Trotsky assassinated in Mexico |
| History August 20, 1940 British PM Churchill said of the Royal Air Force `Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.' |
| History August 20, 1942 Dimout regulations implemented in SF |
| History August 20, 1944 Brits launch Operation Wallace and aid French Resistance |
| History August 20, 1953 Russia publicly acknowledges a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb. |
| History August 20, 1954 United States decides to support Diem |
| History August 20, 1955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria |
| History August 20, 1955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph - HA Hanes Palmdale Ca |
| History August 20, 1956 Republicans convene at the Cow Palace |
| History August 20, 1960 Senegal gains independence from France |
| History August 20, 1964 LBJ signs an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion. |
| History August 20, 1968 Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia |
| History August 20, 1968 650 000 Soviet-block troops invade Czechoslovakia |
| History August 20, 1968 Soviet Union intervenes in Czechoslovakia |
| History August 20, 1971 Minh and Ky withdraw from presidential race |
| History August 20, 1974 Military aid to Saigon slashed |
| History August 20, 1975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars soft landing |
| History August 20, 1975 Viking 1 launched to Mars |
| History August 20, 1977 Best of My Love, by the Emotions, hits the top of the U.S. pop charts |
| History August 20, 1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune |
| History August 20, 1980 UN Security Council votes 14-0 US abstains condemning Israel's declaration that all of Jersualem was its capital. |
| History August 20, 1982 U.S. Marines deployed to Lebanon |
| History August 20, 1986 A mail carrier in Edmond Okla. shot 14 fellow workers dead |
| History August 20, 1989 The Menendez brothers murder their parents |
| History August 20, 1995 Trains collide and explode in India |
| History August 20, 2004 Record-setting tow-truck parade held in Washington State |
| History August 20, 2013 Best-selling crime writer Elmore Leonard dies |