SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2011

Today is Saturday, August 20, the 232nd day of 2011. There are 133 days left in the year.

1866 ― President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over

1896 ― Dial telephone patented

1914 ― German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I

1940 ― Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21

1953 ― Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation

1958 ― Dale Long becomes first major league lefty catcher in 52 years

1965 ― Rolling Stones release ``Satisfaction" (their first No. 1 U.S. hit)

1968 ― 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia

1974 ― Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)

1990 ― Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)