08-20-2005, 09:41 AM
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August 20th
1882 ~ Piotr Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuted in Moscow.
1890 ~ Birthday of H. P. Lovecraft , Horror Writer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Jim Reeves, country and western singer.
1940 ~ Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded in Mexico City and died the next day.
1941 ~ Birthday of Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1991 ~ Downfall of the Soviet Union: Estonia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 ~ The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), were finalized in Oslo, Norway.
1998 ~ The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Quebec could not legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 ~ The U.S. launched cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2001 ~ Death of Sir Fred Hoyle , Astronomer, Science Fiction Writer.
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