Thursday, 20 August 2020

Today in History: August 20th

Hello Gentle Readers.

Lets open up the weird supernatural books of history and hope we dont run into Cthulhu.


1858: Charles Darwin publishes his Theory of Evolution.



1882: The first performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture in Moscow.



1890: American horror and science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft is born.






1940: Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded by a blow from and ice axe to his head.



1971: British comedian and novelist David Walliams is born.



1977: Space probe Voyager II is launched.



2017: US comedy actor Jerry Lewis dies.



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