About August 20
August 20, 2024 is the 233rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 162 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 20
- 20 –Agrippa Postumus, adoptive-son of the late Roman Emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances
- 1000 –The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen. Today celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
- 1083 –Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric.
- 1672 –Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
- 1775 –The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
- 1858 –Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace’s same theory.
- 1866 –President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
- 1910 –The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup or the Big Burn) occurred in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, burning approximately 3 e6acre.
- 1938 –Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam – a record that still stands.
- 1940 –British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”.
- 1944 –World War II: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive.
- 1977 –Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- 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 –Iran–Iraq War: a cease-fire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
- 1988 –Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1988 –The Troubles: Eight British Army soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb in Northern Ireland (see Ballygawley bus bombing).
- 1989 –The O-Bahn in Adelaide, the world’s longest guided busway, opens.
- 1991 –Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of her pre-World War II statehood.
- 1998 –The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval.
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