This Day, Aug. 20: Augusta National Golf Club admits women for 1st time

Aug. 20 has marked several notable events in history, ranging from exploration and science to major crimes and sports milestones. In 1741, Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering became the first European to reach what is now called Alaska. In 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s evolution theories were published in a British scholarly journal. On Aug. 20, 1968, Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring.” In 1977, the second U.S. Voyager spacecraft left Cape Canaveral for Jupiter and Saturn and still transmitted data. More recent items include 2003’s suspension of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore over a Ten Commandments display, and 2012 when Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore became the first female members of Augusta National.