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AUGUST 20
Jamie Agoglia was born.
Kendra Lane-Allen was born.
1980 – Italian Reinhold Messner made the first successful solo ascent of Mount Everest and without oxygen.
2000 – Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one year.
AUGUST 21
Mike Kehoe was born.
Janice Weinert was born.
Ryan Urciuoli was born.
1911 – The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia.
AUGUST 22
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt became the first United States president to ride in an automobile.
2004 – A version of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream was stolen in Norway. Another version had been stolen in 1994.
AUGUST 23
Jim Moriarty was born.
Brian Galarza was born.
Maryann Dean-Polanco was born.
Sarah Bradwisch was born.
1305 – Scottish leader and national hero, William Wallace, was executed in London.
1926 – Silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31.
AUGUST 24
Geoff Rawling was born.
Brian James McManus was born.
John Reinhardt was born.
Kerri McGuinness Ward was born.
Timra Sullivan Mannino was born.
Bryan Henry was born.
Jennifer Baldwin was born.
79 A.D. – Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
AUGUST 25
Mary Cassidy Kennedy was born.
Veronica (Cassidy) Barry was born.
Deirdre Powers was born.
1916 – The Department of the Interior created the National Park Service to manage and preserve national parks and monuments.
1944 – Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation by Allied forces.
AUGUST 26
1920 – The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote went into effect.
1939 – The first televised major league baseball game aired: a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.
