This Day In History

August 20th

1619  The first African slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia
1741  Vitus Jonas Bering, a Danish explorer and navigator working for the Russians was the first European to sight Alaska, the Bering Sea is subsequently named after him
1940  Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky fatally wounded with ice-pick assassin in Mexico City. A Spanish communist hired by Stalin is suspected, but the Soviet government denies it
1955  Typhoon Iris slammed the Fukien province of China killing over 2,000
1975  Unmanned Viking I launched the first US space mission to the surface of Mars.

1833  23rd US President Benjamin Harrison, grandson of 9th US President William Henry Harrison
1889  Nazi German Leader Adolf Hitler
1942  Singer Isaac Hayes
1944  India's Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi
1946  TV Journalist Connie Chung (Yu-Hwa)

Top Hits Courtesy of...

1959

• A Big Hunk O' Love - Elvis Presley

• There Goes My Baby - The Drifters

• What'd I Say (Part I) - Ray Charles

• Sea of Love - Phil Phillips with The Twilights

1967

• All You Need is Love - The Beatles

• Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees

• Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin

• Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry

1975

• Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees

• One of These Nights - Eagles

• Fallin' In Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds

• Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender

1983

• Every Breath You Take - The Police

• Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics

• Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco

• Love Song - The Oak Ridge Boys

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