08-20-2006, 02:51 PM
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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 ~ UK PM Winston Churchill paid tribute to the RAF, saying, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
1941 ~ Birthday of Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1968 ~ Warsaw Pact troops and tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring of political liberalization.
1991 ~ Downfall of the Soviet Union: Estonia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
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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