August 20: "Paradise Lost," a record sailing of the German U-35 submarine and the launch of the Viking-1

On August 20, 1627, an epic poem was published in the white poems "Paradise Lost" by the English poet John Milton. Now considered one of the greatest literary works written in English.

1897 - Indian doctor of Scottish origin Ronald Ross experimentally proved that malaria is transmitted by mosquito bites.

1912 - Thomas Edison patent phonograph and electric battery.

1913 - The First All-Russian Sports Olympiad was opened in Kiev.

1916 - German submarine "U-35" completed its record 25-day voyage across the Mediterranean Sea, during which 54 enemy ships were sunk.

1925 - The Kanev Museum-Reserve "Tomb of Taras Shevchenko" was founded by the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR on the Blackstone mountain in Kanev. Now - Shevchenko National Reserve.

1939 - operation of Soviet-Mongolian troops to defeat Japanese troops in the Khalkhin-Gol river area.

1951 - DOSAAF (Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Aviation and Fleet) was created in the USSR.

1975 - Viking: NASA launched the Viking-1 to Mars.

1980 - Italian climber Reinhold Messner first conquered Mount Everest alone without using a respiratory oxygen mask.

2002 - General Motors Corporation announced the recall of seven hundred thousand cars. The pick-ups and minivans Chevrolet and GM-Si, produced in 2000, revealed a problem in the airbags.

2008 - Madrid crashed a passenger plane McDonnell Douglas MD-82. Of the 170 people on board, 154 people died.