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August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
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 von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister 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 - 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 .
1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declared the U.S. Civil War over.
1882 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 's 1812 Overture 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.
1953 - The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb .
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.
1974 - Congress votes to reduce aid to South Vietnam from $1 Billion to $700 Million. Majority of the cuts were for military supplies.
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 , U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide .
1988 - "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
1988 - Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty .
1988 - Iran-Iraq War : A cease-fire is agreed to after almost eight years of war.
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 secedes from the Soviet Union .
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 Quebec 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.
2002 - A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein took over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up.
Births 1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle , French church leader (d. 1586 )
1561 - Jacopo Peri , Italian composer (d. 1633 )
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 )
1776 - Bernardo O'Higgins , South American revolutionary (d. 1842 )
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 )
1898 - Vilhelm Moberg , Swedish author and historian (d. 1973 )
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 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 )
1926 - Nobby Wirkowski , American and Canadian football player and coach
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 and of Yugoslavia (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 )
1949 - Nikolas Asimos , Greek composer and singer (d. 1988 )
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
1962 - Dong-Wook Song , South Korean tennis player
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
1977 - Ivar Ingimarsson , Icelandic footballer
1979 - Cory Sullivan , baseball player
1980 - Rochelle Gadd , British actress
1981 - Bernard Mendy , French footballer
1982 - Joshua Kennedy , Australian footballer
1982 - Youssouf Hersi , Ethiopian footballer
1982 - Cléber , Brazilian footballer
1984 - Mirai Moriyama , Japanese actor
1986 - Robert Clark , Canadian actor
1987 - Cătălina Ponor , Romanian gymnast
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 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854 )
1917 - Adolf von Baeyer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835 )
1930 - Charles Bannerman , Australian cricketer (b. 1851 )
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 )
1993 - Bernard Delfgaauw , Dutch philosopher (b. 1912 )
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 )
Holidays and observances
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