Event:
Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
More Notable Events on August 20:
1982 U.S. Marines land in Beirut, Lebanon
1980 Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1741 Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
