On This Day in History August 20, 2020

Historical Events 1597  1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East 1619  1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude. 1741  Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition 1866  President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over 1905  Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus 1968  During the night 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring 1993  Oslo Peace Accords signed, after secret negotiations in Norway, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Benjamin Harrison (1833 - 1901) Demi Lovato 28th Birthday Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1779 - 1852) Rajiv Gandhi (1944 - 1991) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Jerry Lewis (1926 - 2017) Phyllis Diller (1917 - 2012) More Famous Deaths