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Anniversary on the 20th of August 0337

Anniversary
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100 years anniversary
20 Aug 1924   Jim Reeves: US country singer / actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim)
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20 Aug 1924 WW2 Light carrier Hosho's modification work was completed at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan, which saw the removal of her island, mast, and crane. 
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20 Aug 1924 WW2 General Soroku Suzuki was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Shinnosuke Kikuchi. 
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20 Aug 1924 WW2 Lieutenant General Takaichi Kanno was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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20 Aug 1924   birth Jim Reeves, US country singer. The first country singer to crossover into the pop market. (1960 US No.2 single 'He'll Have To Go', 1966 UK No.1 single 'Distant Drums'). Reeves was killed in a plane crash on 31st July 1964 when the single engine aircraft flying from Arkansas to Nashville crashed in thick fog.
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75 years anniversary
20 Aug 1949   78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
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20 Aug 1949 WW2 USS Sea Robin arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States and joined Submarine Squadron 8. 
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20 Aug 1949   birth Phil Lynott Irish singer, songwriter, bass player, Thin Lizzy. (1973 UK No.6 single 'Whisky In The Jar'). Lynott died on 4th Jan 1986 of heart failure and pneumonia after being in a coma for eight days following a drug overdose. A life-size bronze statue of Phil Lynott was unveiled on Harry Street in Dublin in 2005.
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20 Aug 1949   78,382 watch the White Sox play the Indians at Cleveland
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20 Aug 1949   Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
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50 years anniversary
20 Aug 1974   Denesha Reid: Miss USA-Georgia (1997)
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20 Aug 1974   Ilona Massey: Actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico), dies at 62
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20 Aug 1974   Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
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20 Aug 1974   Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
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20 Aug 1974   Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 km/h (100.4 mph)
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20 Aug 1974   Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
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20 years anniversary
20 Aug 2004   A man from Stoke-on-Trent, England, named Bryan Adams as the 'other man' in his divorce papers after years spent trying to cope with his wife's obsession with the singer. Rob Tinsley said he had to live with a 6ft cut-out of Adams which stood at the foot of the bed and posters on the bedroom walls.
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