Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: 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 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 20
- 20 –Agrippa Postumus, adoptive-son of the late Roman Emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1989 –The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision, 51 people are killed.
Who were born on August 20?
- 1779 –Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
- 1833 –Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
- 1921 –Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (d. 1985)
- 1949 –Patrick Kilpatrick, American actor
- 1956 –Alvin Greenidge, West Indian cricketer
- 1969 –Billy Gardell, American actor and comedian
- 1971 –David Walliams, British comedian
- 1974 –Misha Collins, American actor and producer
- 1982 –Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1983 –Andrew Garfield, American actor
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