TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT August 20, 1953

The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.

ON THIS DATE 1910

A series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 people and burning some 3 million acres.

1964

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.

1986

Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond, Okla., shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself.

2000

Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship in a playoff over Bob May, becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one year.