The Daily News | August 20

Two dogs and six mice survived Sputnik V orbit, 1960
Viking 1 (US) launched, 1975
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, died, 1912
Dial telephone patented, 1896
First airline to fly faster than 800 mph (H.A. Hanes), 1955
Voyager 2 (US) launched, 1977
Original Xerox 914 copying machine presented to the Smithsonian, 1985
Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
Youngest major league player to hit a home run (Tommy Brown, 17), 1945
Abbey Theater founded (Dublin), 1904
The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a Hydrogen bomb, 1953
Earthquake hit Turkey (3000 killed), 1966
St. Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto), 257th Roman Catholic Pope, died, 1914
Plant Quarantine Act came into effect, 1912
William Taylor, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, died, 1992
Steamboat collision, Lake Erie (250 died), 1852