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{{Linked-title}} is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 133 days remaining.
==Events==
*[[636]] - [[Battle of Yarmuk]]: [[Arab]] forces led by [[Khalid bin Walid]] take control of [[Syria]] and [[Palestine (region)|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 [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]] out.
*[[1000]] - The foundation of the [[Hungarian Kingdom|Hungarian state]], [[Hungary]] is established as a [[Christian]] kingdom by [[Stephen I of Hungary]].
*[[1391]] - [[Konrad IV von Wallenrode]] becomes the 24th [[Grand master (order)|Grand Master]] of the [[Teutonic Order]].
*[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] - [[United States|American]] troops force a confederacy of [[Shawnee]], [[Mingo]], [[Lenape|Delaware]], [[Wyandot]], [[Miami tribe|Miami]], [[Ottawa (tribe)|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 (explorer)|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|Japan's]] primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
*[[1914]] - [[World War I]]: [[Germany|German]] forces occupy [[Brussels]].
*[[1920]] - The first commercial [[radio]] station, [[8MK]] ([[WWJ]]), begins operations in [[Detroit, Michigan]].
*[[1926]] - [[Japan|Japan's]] [[public broadcasting]] company, [[NHK|Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK)]] is established.
*[[1938]] - [[Lou Gehrig]] hits his 23rd career grand slam - a record that still stands.
*[[1940]] - Exiled [[Russia]]n 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 (1944)|Battle of Romania]] begins with a major [[Soviet]] offensive.
*[[1955]] - In [[Morocco]], a force of [[Berber people|Berbers]] from the [[Atlas Mountains]] region of [[Algeria]] raid two rural settlements and kill 77 [[France|French]] nationals.
*[[1960]] - [[Senegal]] breaks from the [[Mali]] federation, declaring independence.
*[[1968]] - 200,000 [[Warsaw Pact]] troops and 5,000 [[tank]]s invade [[Czechoslovakia]] to end the "[[Prague Spring]]" of political liberalization.
*[[1975]] - [[Viking program|Viking Program]]: [[NASA]] launches the [[Viking 1]] planetary probe toward [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].
*[[1977]] - [[Voyager program|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]], [[United States Postal Service|US Postal]] employee [[Patrick Sherrill|Patrick Henry Sherrill]] guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits [[suicide]].
*[[1988]] - [[Peru]] becomes a member of the [[Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary 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 [[Quebec|Québec]] cannot legally secede from [[Canada]] without the federal government's approval.
*1998 - [[1998 U.S. embassy bombings|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 [[United States|American]] embassies in [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]]. The [[al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory]] in [[Khartoum]] is destroyed in the attack.
==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 in Literature|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]])
*[[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 in Chemistry|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 (actress)|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 (actor)|Robert Clark]], Canadian actor
*[[1987]] - [[Cătălina Ponor]], Romanian gymnast
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==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 in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1835]])
*[[1961]] - [[Percy Williams Bridgman]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1882]])
*[[1965]] - [[Jonathan Myrick Daniels]], [[American civil rights movement|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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==Holidays and observances==
*[[World Union]] - [[World Union Day]].
*[[List of saints|Roman Catholic saints]] - Saint [[Bernard of Clairvaux]]
*[[Bahá'í Faith]] - Feast of [[Asmá]] ([[Names]]) - First day of the ninth month of the [[Bahá'í Calendar]].
*[[Estonia]] - [[Restoration Day]].
*[[Hungary]] - [[Stephen I of Hungary|St. Stephen]]'s day, the main national holiday in [[Hungary]].
*[[Morocco]] - [[Revolution of the King and the People Day]].
==External links==
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/20 BBC: On This Day]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20060820.html ''The New York Times'': On This Day]
* [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Aug&day=20 On This Day in Canada]
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