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08-19-2010, 07:47 PM
jseal
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August 20th
1882
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Piotr Tchaikovsky's “1812 Overture” debuted in Moscow.
1890
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Birthday of
H. P. Lovecraft
, Horror Writer.
1923
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Birthday of Jim Reeves, country and western singer.
1940
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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
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Birthday of
Slobodan Milosevic
, former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1968
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Warsaw Pact troops and tanks invaded Czechoslovakia
to end the Prague Spring of political liberalization.
1991
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Downfall of the Soviet Union
: Estonia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1998
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The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that
Quebec could not legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval
.
1998
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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
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Death of Sir
Fred Hoyle
, Astronomer, Science Fiction Writer.
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