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Events on the 20th of August in history

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20 Aug 0573 Gregory of Tours selected Bishop of Tours
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20 Aug 0917 Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
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20 Aug 1191 Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
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20 Aug 1534 Turkish Admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
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20 Aug 1566 Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
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20 Aug 1585 English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to the Netherland
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20 Aug 1597 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
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20 Aug 1604 Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
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20 Aug 1619 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
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20 Aug 1641 Britain and Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
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20 Aug 1741 Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
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20 Aug 1781 George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
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20 Aug 1791 Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska
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20 Aug 1794 Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
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20 Aug 1795 Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
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20 Aug 1852 Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
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20 Aug 1856 Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
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20 Aug 1861 Skirmish at Jonesboro, Missouri
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20 Aug 1864 8th / last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties)
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20 Aug 1865 President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Texas
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20 Aug 1865 Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
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20 Aug 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
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20 Aug 1879 Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
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20 Aug 1893 Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
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20 Aug 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
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20 Aug 1896 Dial telephone patented
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20 Aug 1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
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20 Aug 1908 Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
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20 Aug 1910 US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
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20 Aug 1912 Washingston Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
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20 Aug 1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
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20 Aug 1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
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20 Aug 1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe P
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20 Aug 1914 Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
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20 Aug 1914 Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
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20 Aug 1914 Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France
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20 Aug 1914 German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
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20 Aug 1914 German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I
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20 Aug 1915 Italy declares war on Turkey
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20 Aug 1915 White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleveland in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500
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20 Aug 1918 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
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20 Aug 1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 average)
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20 Aug 1920 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
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20 Aug 1920 Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
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20 Aug 1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
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20 Aug 1921 35th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62)
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20 Aug 1922 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
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20 Aug 1923 London harbor strike ends
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20 Aug 1925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
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20 Aug 1926 Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
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20 Aug 1929 1st airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed
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20 Aug 1930 Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
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20 Aug 1931 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)
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20 Aug 1935 Military coup by General Pons and President Ibarra in Ecuador
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20 Aug 1938 Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd and last grand slam
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20 Aug 1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Association)
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20 Aug 1939 Russ offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia
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20 Aug 1940 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
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20 Aug 1940 British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
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20 Aug 1940 Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies
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20 Aug 1940 Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21
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20 Aug 1941 Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
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20 Aug 1942 Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco
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20 Aug 1944 "Anna Lucasta, " opens on Broadway
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20 Aug 1944 26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito Golf and Country Club - Spokane Washington
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20 Aug 1944 Gen de Gaulle returns to France
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20 Aug 1944 Russian offensive at Jassy and Kisjinev
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20 Aug 1944 US and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
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20 Aug 1944 "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
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20 Aug 1945 Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
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20 Aug 1945 Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
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20 Aug 1945 Russian troops occupy Harbin and Mukden
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20 Aug 1945 Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
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20 Aug 1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
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20 Aug 1947 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
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20 Aug 1948 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
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20 Aug 1948 US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
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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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20 Aug 1952 Stalin meets Chou Enlai
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20 Aug 1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests Premier Mossadeq of Persia
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20 Aug 1953 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
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20 Aug 1955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 km/h) - HA Hanes, Palmdale, California
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20 Aug 1955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
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20 Aug 1956 Republicans convene at Cow Palace
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20 Aug 1957 "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
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20 Aug 1957 Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washingston Senators, 6-0
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20 Aug 1957 USAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
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20 Aug 1958 Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
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20 Aug 1958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
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20 Aug 1958 Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
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20 Aug 1959 Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
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20 Aug 1960 Senegal breaks from the Mali federation; declaring independence
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20 Aug 1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
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20 Aug 1961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
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20 Aug 1964 LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
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20 Aug 1964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
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20 Aug 1964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act (totaling nearly $1 billion)
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20 Aug 1965 Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
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20 Aug 1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
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20 Aug 1966 Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
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20 Aug 1968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
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20 Aug 1969 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
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20 Aug 1971 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
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20 Aug 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
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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 kph (100.4 mph)
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20 Aug 1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
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20 Aug 1975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
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20 Aug 1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
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20 Aug 1978 Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
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20 Aug 1978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
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20 Aug 1978 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
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20 Aug 1979 India Premier Charan Singh resigns
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20 Aug 1979 Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
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20 Aug 1980 Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
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20 Aug 1980 New York Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
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20 Aug 1980 Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
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20 Aug 1980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
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20 Aug 1980 UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital
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20 Aug 1982 Don Lever becomes 1st captain of New Jersey Devils
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20 Aug 1982 US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
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20 Aug 1982 Don Lever becomes the 1st captain of the NJ Devils
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20 Aug 1983 Miss National Teen-Ager
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20 Aug 1985 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian / Egyptian gas workers
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20 Aug 1985 Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
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20 Aug 1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Goodin)
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20 Aug 1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US
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20 Aug 1985 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
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20 Aug 1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
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20 Aug 1986 Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in the 9th
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20 Aug 1988 6.5 earthquake strikes India / Nepal, 1,000s killed
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20 Aug 1988 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
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20 Aug 1989 Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
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20 Aug 1989 Howard Johnson joins B Bonds and W Mays to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases
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20 Aug 1989 Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
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20 Aug 1989 Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
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20 Aug 1990 Gene Michael names New York Yankee VP / GM replacing Harding Peterson
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20 Aug 1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankee owner
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20 Aug 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approximately 132 at bat)
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20 Aug 1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
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20 Aug 1991 After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares
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20 Aug 1991 Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
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20 Aug 1991 Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
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20 Aug 1992 England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs. Pakistan, then world ODI record
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20 Aug 1992 Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
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20 Aug 1993 Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
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20 Aug 1993 Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
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20 Aug 1993 Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
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20 Aug 1994 Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
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20 Aug 1994 Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
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20 Aug 1997 Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
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