Also on August 20
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Az államalapítás ünnepe (HU) · State Foundation Day (HU)
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 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... ↗
- 2007 — China Airlines Flight 120 caught fire and exploded after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 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