About August 20
August 20, 2022 is the 232nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 155 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
- 917 –Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army.
- 1391 –Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order.
- 1710 –War of the Spanish Succession: a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
- 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.
- 1882 –Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
- 1914 –World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
- 1926 –Japan’s public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
- 1944 –World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being “terror fliers”, arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
- 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 its independence.
- 1975 –Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
- 1977 –Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- 1988 –“Black Saturday” of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
- 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 pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision, 51 people are killed.
- 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.
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