On This Day, Aug. 20: Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership admits ladies for 1st time

Aug. 20 (UPI) — On this date in historical past:

In 1741, Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering found what’s now referred to as Alaska.

In 1858, theories by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace concerning evolution had been revealed in a British scholarly journal.

In 1968, about 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” — a short interval of efforts to democratize socialism within the nation.

In 1977, the second U.S. Voyager spacecraft — one in all two launched in 1977 — left Cape Canaveral, Fla., certain for Jupiter and Saturn. The 2 Voyager area probes are nonetheless transmitting information.

In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill killed 14 fellow workers and wounded six others within the Edmond, Okla., publish workplace earlier than killing himself.

In 1989, 18-year-old Eric Menendez and 21-year-old Lyle Menendez — the Menendez brothers — killed their parents with a gun. The brothers had been arrested in March and in 1996, each had been convicted and sentenced to life in jail.

In 1996, U.S. President Invoice Clinton signed into regulation an increase in the minimum wage in two steps from $4.25 to $5.15 an hour.

In 1998, U.S. missiles struck websites in Afghanistan and Sudan mentioned to be linked with terrorists. The assaults had been in response to the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 13 days earlier.

In 2003, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal courtroom order to take away a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the foyer of the state Supreme Court docket constructing.

In 2008, a Spanair jetliner crashed on takeoff in Madrid, killing 154 folks and injuring many others. Observers mentioned the left jet engine was on fireplace because the aircraft took off.

In 2009, the Libyan convicted of the 1968 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Scotland killing 270 folks, was freed from prison on compassionate grounds. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who had been sentenced to life in jail in 2001, had prostate most cancers. He died in Might 2012.

In 2011, two U.S. hikers who mentioned that they had wandered into Iran by mistake had been sentenced to eight years in an Iranian jail for espionage. They had been freed one month later and returned to the USA.

In 2012, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and businesswoman Darla Moore turned the first female members of Georgia’s Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership, website of the Masters, one in all golf’s most prestigious occasions. The membership had lengthy been below assault by ladies’s rights teams, and others, for its all-male membership.

In 2014, mudslides attributable to heavy rains killed about 70 people in residential areas on the outskirts of Hiroshima, Japan.

In 2020, former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, was arrested and charged for allegedly bilking political donors out of tons of of 1000’s of {dollars}. He was later pardoned by Trump and the fees had been dismissed.