FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2021

1896-Dial telephone patented

1914-German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I

1940-British PM Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

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

1955-Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria

1960-Senegal breaks from the Mali federation; declaring independence

1968-650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia

1977-NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune

1980-Reinhold Messner of Italy is first to solo ascent Mt. Everest

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

1985-Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia

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