On this day, Aug. 20

1920 Pioneering American radio station 8MK in Detroit (later WWJ) began daily broadcasting.

1980 U.S. Steel announced it would recall 800 furloughed employees back to the Edgar Thomson Works.

1987 The Regional Industrial Development Corp., with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, receives a $150,000 contract to coordinate plans for a new High Technology Park on the site of the old Jones & Laughlin steel plant.

1999 Paul Spadafora, a McKees Rocks native, won the International Boxing Federation lightweight championship by beating Israel Cardona.

2017 Actor, comic and longtime telethon host Jerry Lewis died of heart disease in Las Vegas at the age of 91.

Today’s birthdays: Writer-producer-director Walter Bernstein, 101. Boxing promoter Don King, 89. Former Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine,, 87. Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, 85. Former MLB All-Star Graig Nettles, 76. Broadcast journalist Connie Chung, 74. Musician Jimmy Pankow (Chicago), 73. Actor Ray Wise, 73. Actor John Noble, 72. Rock singer Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), 72. Country singer Rudy Gatlin, 68. Singer-songwriter John Hiatt, 68. Actor-director Peter Horton, 67. TV weatherman Al Roker, 66. Actor Jay Acovone, 65. Actor Joan Allen, 64. Movie director David O. Russell, 62. TV personality Asha Blake, 59. Actor James Marsters, 58.

Thought for today: “To the eye of failure success is an accident.” — Ambrose Bierce, American author-journalist (1842-1914?)