MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012

Today is Monday, August 20, the 233rd day of 2012. There are 133 days left in the year.

1866 ― President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over

1896 ― Dial telephone patented

1920 ― Allen Woodring wins Olympic 200-m dash wearing borrowed shoes

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

1953 ― Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation

1960 ― USSR recovers two dogs; first living organisms to return from space

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)

1980 ― U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital