Today in History: August 20, first women invited to join Augusta National golf club
Nowadays is Wednesday Aug the nd day of There are days left in the year This day in history On Aug after years in existence Georgia s Augusta National golf club home to the Masters Tournament invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become its first female members both accepted Also on this date In Charles Darwin s theory of evolution was first published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society Related Articles Colorado urges Supreme Court to uphold state s ban on conversion therapy for minors Walmart recalls frozen shrimp over feasible radioactive contamination NASA s Webb telescope finds a new tiny moon around Uranus US pediatricians new COVID- shot recommendations differ from CDC advice Las Vegas tourism is down Chosen blame Trump s tariffs and immigration crackdown In the New York Tribune published an open letter by editor Horace Greeley calling on President Abraham Lincoln to take more aggressive measures to free enslaved people and end the South s rebellion In President Andrew Johnson declared the official end of the Civil War In Tchaikovsky s Overture had its premiere in Moscow In a series of wildfires swept through parts of Idaho Montana and Washington killing at least people and burning a few million acres In the American Professional Football Conference was established by representatives of four professional football teams two years later with teams it would be renamed the National Football League In exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked in Coyoacan Mexico by assassin Ramon Mercader Trotsky died the next day In President Lyndon B Johnson signed into law the Economic Opportunity Act a nearly billion anti-poverty measure In the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring liberalization movement In postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond Oklahoma shooting fellow workers to death before killing himself In people died when the pleasure boat Marchioness sank in the River Thames in London after being struck by a dredger In Tropical Storm Hilary struck Baja California killing three and causing million in damage This day s Birthdays Boxing promoter Don King is Former U S Senator and diplomat George Mitchell is Former U S Rep Ron Paul R-Texas is Broadcast journalist Connie Chung is Rock singer Robert Plant is Country singer Rudy Gatlin is Singer-songwriter John Hiatt is Actor-director Peter Horton is TV weather presenter Al Roker is Actor Joan Allen is Movie director David O Russell is Rapper KRS-One Boogie Down Productions is Actor Colin Cunningham is Actor Billy Gardell is Rock singer Fred Durst Limp Bizkit is Actor Ke Huy Quan is Baseball Hall of Famer Todd Helton is Actor Amy Adams is Actor Misha Collins TV Supernatural is Actor Ben Barnes is Actor Andrew Garfield is Actor-singer Demi Lovato is
