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Wednesday, August 20th 2008
Today is the 233rd day of 2008. There are 132 days left in this year.
What Happened On This Day In History?
| 1866 |
President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, even though the fighting had stopped months earlier. |
| 1914 |
German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I. |
| 1918 |
Britain opened its offensive on the Western front during World War I. |
| 1940 |
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, ''Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'' |
| 1953 |
The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb. |
| 1955 |
Hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria. |
| 1964 |
President Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure. |
| 1968 |
The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime. |
| 1977 |
The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. |
| 1998 |
Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, U.S. forces launched cruise missile strikes against alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan. |
Born on this day
| 1833 |
Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio. |
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