Today in History - History - August 20th

573Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours

1866President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over

1940Louis Buchalter is indicted on murder charges in Los Angeles for the killing of Harry Greenberg, a mob associate of casino owner Meyer Lansky and mobster Bugsy Siegel

1865President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Texas

1882Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow

1993Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria

1952Stalin meets Chou Enlai

1967Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open

1781George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis

1974Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)

1833Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)

1901Salvatore Quasimodo, Naples Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959), (d. 1968)

1948Robert Plant, West Bromwich England, rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love)

1918Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls), (d. 1974)

2011Socialite and model Kim Kardashian (30) weds basketball player Kris Humphries (26) at a private estate in Montecito, California

1939"Rebecca" actress Joan Fontaine (21) weds actor Brian Aherne (37)

2012Phyllis Diller, American comedienne and actress, dies from natural causes at 95

1854Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79