Public Holidays on August 20

• 🌍 Az államalapítás ünnepe (Hungary)
• 🌍 State Foundation Day (Hungary)

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On This Day in History — August 20

• 2016 — 54 people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
• 2014 — Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
• 2012 — A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
• 2008 — Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
• 2007 — China Airlines Flight 120 caught fire and exploded after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
• 2006 — Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.

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Notable Births on August 20

• 1996 — Bunty Afoa, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 — Liana Liberato, American television and film actress
• 1993 — Mario Jelavic, Croatian footballer
• 1992 — Matt Eisenhuth, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 — Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1992 — Andrei Peteleu, Romanian footballer

Notable Deaths on August 20

• 2017 — Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
• 2015 — Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (b. 1922)
• 2015 — Paul Kibblewhite, New Zealand chemist and engineer (b. 1941)
• 2015 — Frank Wilkes, Australian soldier and politician (b. 1922)
• 2014 — Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and journalist (b. 1983)
• 2014 — Lois Mai Chan, Taiwanese-American librarian, author, and academic (b. 1934)

Public Holidays on August 21

• 🌍 Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
• 🌍 Pihenőnap (2026. 08. 08.-től helyettesítve) (Hungary)

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On This Day in History — August 21

• 2017 — An eclipse traverses the continental United States.
• 2016 — Last day of the Rio Summer Olympics.
• 2013 — Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
• 2000 — Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year.
• 1993 — NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
• 1991 — Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.

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Notable Births on August 21

• 1991 — Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer
• 1989 — Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer
• 1989 — Hayden Panettiere, American actress
• 1989 — Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer
• 1989 — Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
• 1989 — James Davey, English rugby league player

Notable Deaths on August 21

• 2017 — Bajram Rexhepi, First Kosovan Prime Ministers of UN mission administration in Kosovo . (b. 1954)
• 2015 — Colin Beyer, New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938)
• 2015 — Wang Dongxing, Chinese commander and politician (b. 1916)
• 2015 — Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2014 — Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (b. 1944)
• 2014 — Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (b. 1925)