08-20-2004, 05:35 AM
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August 20th
1882 ~ Piotr Ilyitch 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 by an assassin's ice-ax. He died the next day.
1941 ~ Birthday of Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1944 ~ Birthday of Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India.
1968 ~ 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
1991 ~ Collapse 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.
2001 ~ Death of Sir Fred Hoyle, Astronomer, Science Fiction Writer.
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