August 20

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 20. From 1900 until now. August 20 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Demi Lovato (1992), Robert Plant (1948) and Amy Adams (1974). Several movies were released around August 20 over the years, such as Pather Panchali in 1955 directed by Satyajit Ray and Rashomon in 1950 directed by Akira Kurosawa.
But much more happened on August 20 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Morocco - Revolution of the King and the People Day
RC saints - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Bah�'f Faith - Feast of Asm� (Names) - First day of the ninth month of the Bah�'f Calendar
Estonia - Restoration Day
Hungary - St. Stephen's day, the main national holiday in Hungary
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Events

2018 Terrorism in Europe: An officer fatally shoots a man in Cornellà, Barcelona, Spain, after he storms into a Mossos d'Esquadra police station with a knife. Police are treating the incident as an attempted terrorist attack. (BBC)
2017 Iraqi Civil War: Battle of Tal Afar (2017): Iraqi security forces, along with Shi'ite volunteers and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, launch a ground offensive to take the city of Tal Afar back from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants. The city has been isolated from the rest of the ISIL-held territory since the recent Mosul liberation. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
2016 Gaziantep bombing: A suicide bomber targets a Kurdish wedding celebration in the Turkish city of Gaziantep killing at least 22 people and wounding 94. (Reuters), (Reuters via New York Times)
2015 Macedonia declares a state of emergency and deploys police units on its borders as immigrants from the Middle East, mainly from Syria and Iraq, block the railway line between Thessaloniki and Skopje. (The News Hub)
2014 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict: In response to rocket fire six hours before the end of a cease-fire, Israeli airstrikes kill 11 Palestinians including the wife and infant son of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif - the first deaths in a week - while Hamas launches over 130 missiles at Israel during the day. This is the 11th cease-fire broken by rocket fire from Hamas. (BBC), (AP via Fox News) (Reuters)
2013 Insurgency in the North Caucasus:: Russian police kill nine suspected Islamist militants in the North Caucasus region. (Reuters)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 28 ampndash Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels take control of the nation's capital, effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi.
2010 Norwegian stand-up comedian Hans Morten Hansen completes a 38 hours and 14 minute long stand-up marathon, setting a new world record for longest stand-up performance. (''VG'')
2009 The US Mint releases the 2009 James Polk Presidential dollar to circulation.
2008 Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, and 8 more die later. Only 18 people survive.
2007 NASDAQ announces its intention to sell its 31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange.
2006 With nearly all votes counted, the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo heads toward a run-off election after neither candidate wins a fifty percent majority. Full provisional results show Joseph Kabila with 44.81 percent of the vote, to Jean-Pierre Bemba's 20.03 percent. There have been reports of automatic gunfire, and MLC representatives accused Kabila's Republican Guard of killing one of its men and injuring three policemen. (Reuters) (SBS)
2005 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of Indonesia, ordered the national intelligence agency and police to investigate after a power outage left about 100 million people without electricity. (Wikinews)
2004 US Airways, struggling to avoid a second bankruptcy, asks pilots to accept a 16.5% pay cut. (CNN)
2003 War on Terrorism – Canal Hotel: US officials comment terror group linked to al Qaeda, Ansar al-Islam, is emerging as a top suspect in the U.N. headquarters bombing in Baghdad. ampquotIt's part of a global war against terrorism that was officially declared on us on September 11. It's quite clear we do have terrorists inside Iraq now.ampquot
2002 A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2001 TV series: Oswald
1998 The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1997 Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
1996 A thousands-large protest in Seoul, calling for reunification with North Korea, is broken up by riot police.
1994 Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
1993 Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
1992 England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs. Pakistan, then world ODI record
1991 After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares
1990 Gene Michael names New York Yankee VP / GM replacing Harding Peterson
1989 Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1988 6.5 earthquake strikes India / Nepal, 1,000s killed
1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1985 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian / Egyptian gas workers
1983 Miss National Teen-Ager
1982 US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1980 Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1979 India Premier Charan Singh resigns
1978 Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
1975 Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1974 Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1971 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr.
1969 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1966 Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1965 Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
1964 LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1959 Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
1958 Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
1957 Simply Heavenly opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
1956 Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1955 First airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph) - HA Hanes, Palmdale, California, USA.
1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests Premier Mossadeq of Persia
1952 Stalin meets Chou Enlai
1949 78,382 watch the Chicago White Sox play the Cleveland Indians at Cleveland, Ohio.
1948 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1945 Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
1944 Anna Lucasta, opens on Broadway
1942 Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco, California.
1941 Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1940 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Association)
1938 Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam : a record that still stands.
1935 Military coup by General Pons and President Ibarra in Ecuador
1931 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)
1930 Dumont's first TV broadcast for home reception (New York City).
1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1926 Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
1925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1923 London harbor strike ends
1922 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
1921 35th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62)
1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League.
1919 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 average)
1918 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I.
1915 Italy declares war on Turkey
1914 Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect.
1910 US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1908 Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo.
1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
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