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August 20. August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 133 days remain until the end of the year.
August 4. Glassell's black marlin. 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: A combined Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles captured Gibraltar from Spain. 1914 – World War I: Adhering to the terms of the Treaty of London, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany in response to the latter's ...
August 20. Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory. 1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola came to an end with the British and Creek abandoning their attempt to capture Pensacola in Spanish Florida. 1910 – Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which burned about ...
On this day in history, Aug. 20, 2017, 91-year-old Jerry Lewis died of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada.. One of the most well-known American comedians of the 1950s, '60s and well ...
2015 (Sunday) 2014 (Saturday) August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 123 days remain until the end of the year.
August 18 in recent years ... it is the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides. ... [20] 2003 – One-year-old ...
August 21, 1944 (Monday) The Dumbarton Oaks Conference began at the Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, D.C. The international conference was to be where the United Nations was to be formulated and negotiated among international leaders. The Battle of the Falaise Pocket ended in an Allied victory. The Battle of Marseille began in southern France.
August 22, 1922 (Tuesday) Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of Ireland's National Army, was shot dead in an ambush at Béal na Bláth (Anglicized as "Bealnablath"). [ 87] Collins had set out at dawn, accompanied by 20 Irish National Army guards, for an inspection tour of various posts in County Cork.