The first McDonalds in Moscow on opening day, 1990. It
was the largest McDonald’s in the world at the time, with
seating for 900 and a staff of 600 workers.

On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by
the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and
are then bought by English colonists.

The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marked
the beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North
America.

 
CAMILLE BOHANNON

Voyager 2 launched by a Titan-Centaur rocket.

On August 19, 1934, Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is
also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented
consolidation of power in the short history of the republic.