20 de agosto
What happened on 20 de agosto: 26 moments from 7 timelines
- 1804from The Lewis and Clark ExpeditionExploration & Adventure
before we could get him in to this bath he expired, with a great deel of composure — Clark Charles Floyd probably died of a burst appendix, which no doctor of 1804 could have treated. He was the only member of the expedition to die on it. They buried him on a bluff with a cedar post at his head…
- 1832
- 1883
- 1893from Dracula, document by documentFiction & Worldbuilding
Renfield, strait-waistcoated and in the padded room, has quietened since the moon rose: “Now I can wait; now I can wait.” His attacks are less frequent, and Seward plans to ease his bonds for a few hours at a time.
- 1893
Mina joins Lucy at Whitby while no word comes from Jonathan. The storm, the wreck and Mr. Swales’s death frame Lucy’s first sleepwalking, and Mina leaves on 20 August to nurse Jonathan in Buda-Pesth.
- 1958
- 1968
Alexander Dubček, the new party leader, promised “socialism with a human face”: censorship all but ended, and Czechs and Slovaks began to say what they thought. Moscow watched with growing alarm.
- 1969from The BeatlesMusic & Screen
Finishing “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” and setting the running order of the new album. It was the last time all four Beatles were in a studio together.
- 1969
No more tours, no deadlines, and as much time in EMI’s studios as they wanted. With George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick they made the studio an instrument; Sgt. Pepper alone took about 700 hours.
- 1975from Robotic Explorers of the Solar SystemSpace & Astronomy
An orbiter and a lander, with Viking 2 as its twin. The landers’ biology experiments gave results that still divide scientists. Built for 90 days, Viking 1’s lander worked for six years, until a faulty command pointed its antenna away from Earth.
- 1977
People and organizations
- 1153 O.S.
- 1804Died
- 1833
- 1865Dissolved
- 1875Born
- 1914
- 1926Born
- 1940
- 1945Dissolved
- 1957
- 1964Founded
- 1977
Launched first, and the only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus and Neptune. It used a line-up of the outer planets that comes round every 175 years to swing from one to the next. It still calls home, slower each year as its plutonium runs down.
- 1983
More than 500 civic groups, churches, unions and student bodies came together in Mitchells Plain to oppose a new constitution. Allan Boesak told a crowd of about 10,000: “We want all our rights, we want them here, and we want them now.” The UDF was not banned, and became the ANC’s voice at home.
- 2001Died
- 2006Died