Today in History in 1630 – Lemonade is invented in Paris, France; and in 1920 the first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.

Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

14 – Agrippa Postumus, adopted son of the deceased emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances.

636 – Battle of Yarmuk: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.

917 – Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out.

1000 – Date of the official founding of Hungary by Saint Stephen.

1083 – Canonization of Saint Stephen of Hungary and his son, Saint Emeric.

1391 – Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of Teutonic Order.

1467 – The Second Battle of Olmedo takes place as part of the succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.

1519 – Philosopher and General Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the Ming Dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.

1619 – First Africans arrive in the US, transported by the Dutch, and are sold as servants in Jamestown, Virginia.

1630 – Lemonade is invented in Paris, France.

1672 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother, Cornelis de Witt, are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.

1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola ends with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida, from the Spanish.

1710 – War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational (of different nationalities) army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maitre, Marquis de Bray in the Battle of Zaragoza.

1728 – Vitus Bering lands on St. Lawrence Island in the now-named Bering Sea. The island is now part of the US state of Alaska.

1775 – Spanish colonists establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson, in the town that would become Tucson, Arizona.

1794 – Battle of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.

1804 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.

1833 – Nat Turner leads his revolt against the Southern plantation owners of Southampton County, Virginia

1857 – The ship Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads, 121 people drown.

1857 – First book published by an Australian female writer: Gertrude the Emigrant by Caroline Atkinson.

1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his Theory of Evolution through natural selection alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

1860 – In Melbourne, Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills begin their south–north expedition of Australia. They successfully go from the South to North but both die on they way back south in late June 1861.

1866 – US President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War to be over.

1868 – The Abergele train disaster in North Wales kills 33 people.

1882 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.

1892 – The Celtic Park football stadium opens in Glasgow, Scotland. It is home to Celtic FC.

1910 – Fire rips through parts of eastern Washington State, northern Idaho and western Montana.

1914 – World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.

1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1920 – The National Football League (NFL) is founded.

1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.

1926 – Japan's broadcasting company Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is founded.

1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career Grand Slam, a record in baseball that still stands.

1940 – Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice-ax. He will die the next day.

1940 – Winston Churchill makes a famous speech containing the following quote: Never was so much owed by so many to so few.

1944 – World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a Soviet offensive.

1950 – Korean War: The United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Naktong River and assault the city of Taegu.

1955 – In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria, raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.

1960 – Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring independence.

1962 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, starts her first voyage.

1968 – 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.

1975 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.

1977 – Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

1980 – Reinhold Messner reaches the top of Mount Everest, both without oxygen, and on his own.

1982 – Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.

1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, US Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.

1988 – Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1988 – An earthquake in India and Nepal kills 1,450 people.

1988 – Iran-Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed to end eight years of war.

1989 – The O-Bahn busway opens in Adelaide, South Australia, as the world's longest guided busway.

1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the Thames in London, killing 51 people.

1989 – In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot and kill their wealthy parents.

1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.

1991 – Estonia separates from the Soviet Union.

1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington D.C. the next month.

1995 – The Hindu temple in Neasden, London, UK, is opened. At the time of its opening, it is the largest Hindu temple outside India.

1996 – Russian soldiers surround Grozny, Chechnya.

1997 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.

1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.

1998 – 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.

From 2001

2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.

2004 – Talk show host Regis Philbin breaks the record for Most Hours on Camera, with 15,188.

2008 – A Spanair plane, due to travel from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Madrid Barajas Airport, killing 146 people, with 8 dying later. 18 survive.

2009 – Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person to have been convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, who is suffering from prostate cancer, is released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, returning to his native Libya. He dies on May 20, 2012.

2014 – A series of landslides in Hiroshima Prefecture kills 72 people, after a month's worth of rain fell in one day.

2018 – Then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg protests outside the Swedish parliament over politicians' lack of action on climate change, starting what would become a worldwide movement of school strikes.

2019 – Giuseppe Conte announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy over his coalition partner and League party leader Matteo Salvini's calls for an early election.