August 20
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August 20 is
the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are
133 days remaining.
[edit] Events
- 636 - Battle of Yarmuk: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid take control of Syria and
Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and
the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
- 917 - Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and
drives the Byzantines out.
- 1000 - The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is
established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
- 1391 - Konrad IV von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.
- 1794 - Battle of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and
Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
- 1804 - and
Clark Expedition">Lewis and
Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
- 1882 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
- 1888 - Mutineers imprison Emin Pasha at Dufile.
- 1900 - Japan's primary school law is
amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
- 1914 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
- 1920 - The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1926 - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is
established.
- 1938 - Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam - a record that still stands.
- 1940 - Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is
fatally wounded in Mexico City by an
assassin's ice axe. He dies the next day.
- 1944 - The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive.
- 1955 - In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and
kill 77 French nationals.
- 1960 - Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring independence.
- 1968 - 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and
5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
- 1975 - Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
- 1977 - Voyager Program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- 1982 - Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.
- 1986 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, US Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and
then commits suicide.
- 1988 - Peru becomes a member of the and
Artistic Works">Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: more
than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
- 1991 - Estonia reclaims its independence and
secedes from the Soviet Union. it
had been occupied by the Soviets for more
than 50 years.
- 1993 - After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the next month.
- 1997 - Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.
- 1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada states Québec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
- 1998 - U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and
a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is
destroyed in the attack.
[edit] Births
- 1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (d. 1586)
- 1561 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
- 1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
- 1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
- 1632 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
- 1710 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)
- 1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
- 1719 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and
diplomat (d. 1791)
- 1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
- 1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
- 1845 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
- 1847 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
- 1856 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
- 1860 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (d. 1934)
- 1873 - Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
- 1881 - Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959)
- 1897 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970)
- 1890 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
- 1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1905 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and
poet (d. 1973)
- 1905 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964)
- 1908 - Al Lopez, baseball player and
manager (d. 2005)
- 1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
- 1913 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the or
Medicine">Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (d. 1994)
- 1916 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (d. 1984)
- 1918 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
- 1923 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
- 1930 - Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
- 1932 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
- 1932 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist
- 1934 - Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
- 1935 - Ron Paul, American politician
- 1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 - Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director
- 1938 - Alain Vivien, French politician
- 1939 - Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and
presidential candidate
- 1940 - Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
- 1941 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (d. 2006)
- 1941 - Rich Brooks, American football coach
- 1941 - Robin Oakley, British journalist
- 1942 - Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and
actor
- 1942 - Fred Norman, baseball player
- 1943 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
- 1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
- 1946 - Connie Chung, American journalist
- 1946 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
- 1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
- 1948 - John Noble, Australian actor
- 1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
- 1951 - Greg Bear, American author
- 1952 - John Hiatt, American musician
- 1954 - Al Roker, American television broadcaster
- 1955 - Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and
writer
- 1956 - Joan Allen, American actress
- 1961 - Greg Egan, Australian author
- 1962 - Sophie Aldred, English actress
- 1962 - James Marsters, American actor
- 1965 - KRS-One, American rapper
- 1966 - Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and
Damageplan) (d. 2004)
- 1967 - Andy Benes, Baseball player
- 1968 - Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and
singer
- 1969 - Duke Droese, American Professional Wrestler
- 1970 - John Carmack, American computer game programmer
- 1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)
- 1971 - Steve Stone, English footballer
- 1971 - Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese American actor
- 1971 - David Walliams, British comedian
- 1973 - Todd Helton, baseball player
- 1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
- 1975 - Amy Adams, American actress
- 1975 - Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End)
- 1976 - Chris Drury, American hockey player
- 1977 - Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and
actress
- 1979 - Cory Sullivan, baseball player
- 1981 - Bernard Mendy, French footballer
- 1982 - Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
- 1984 - Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
- 1986 - Robert Clark, Canadian actor
- 1987 - Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
[edit] Deaths
- 535 - Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick
- 984 - Pope John XIV
- 1384 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
- 1572 - Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
- 1580 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
- 1611 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)
- 1639 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
- 1643 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
- 1648 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and
philosopher (b. 1583)
- 1672 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
- 1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
- 1680 - William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
- 1701 - Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
- 1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and
composer (b. 1627)
- 1773 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
- 1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
- 1823 - Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
- 1825 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
- 1887 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
- 1904 - René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846)
- 1912 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
- 1914 - Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
- 1915 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the or
Medicine">Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (b. 1854)
- 1917 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
- 1961 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- 1965 - Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Civil Rights Martyr (b. 1939)
- 1971 - Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
- 1980 - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
- 1986 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
- 1997 - Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
- 1998 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
- 2001 - Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and
science fiction writer (b. 1915)
- 2001 - Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (heart disease) (b. 1981)
- 2005 - Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
- 2006 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
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observances">edit] Holidays and
observances
[edit] External links
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lg,
li,
lij,
lmo,
ln,
lo,
lt,
lv,
map_bms,
mg,
mh,
mi,
mk,
ml,
mn,
mo,
mr,
ms,
mt,
mus,
my,
mzn,
na,
nah,
nap,
nds,
nds_nl,
ne,
new,
ng,
nl,
nn,
no,
nov,
nrm,
nv,
ny,
oc,
om,
or,
os,
pa,
pag,
pam,
pap,
pdc,
pi,
pih,
pl,
pms,
ps,
pt,
qu,
rm,
rmy,
rn,
ro,
roa_rup,
roa_tara,
ru,
ru_sib,
rw,
sa,
sc,
scn,
sco,
sd,
se,
searchcom,
sg,
sh,
si,
simple,
sk,
sl,
sm,
sn,
so,
sq,
sr,
ss,
st,
su,
sv,
sw,
ta,
te,
test,
tet,
tg,
th,
ti,
tk,
tl,
tlh,
tn,
to,
tokipona,
tpi,
tr,
ts,
tt,
tum,
tw,
ty,
udm,
ug,
uk,
ur,
uz,
ve,
vec,
vi,
vls,
vo,
wa,
war,
wo,
wuu,
xal,
xh,
yi,
yo,
za,
zea,
zh,
zh_classical,
zh_min_nan,
zh_yue,
zu.