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August 20: Day of the Week
August 20, 2024 is the 233rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.
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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Leo is the zodiac 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.
August 20 Historical Event(s)
1000
The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen. Today celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
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.
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.
1882
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
1944
World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being “terror fliers”, arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
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.
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.
Who were born on August 20?
1886
Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (d. 1965)
1897
Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970)
1932
Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1940
Rex Sellers, Australian cricketer
1949
Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer
1952
John Hiatt, American musician
1975
Marcus Mastin, American author
1976
Chris Drury, American hockey player
1982
Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
1986
Robert Clark, Canadian actor
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