What Happened in History Today - 20th August

The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary - 1000

The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary - 1619

England & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification - 1641

President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over - 1866

Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo - 1908

US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua - 1910

German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp - 1914

WW I: Britain opens offensive on Western front - 1918

Uprising against Rezā Shāh Pahlavi in Iran - 1926

British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" - 1940

Stalin meets Zhou Enlai - 1952

Nelson Rockefeller is selected as US Vice President by President Gerald Ford - 1974

Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing - 1975

NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune - 1977

"Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park - 1988

Estonia formally declares its independence from the USSR - 1991