August 20 Holidays

🕰️ 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. ↗

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🎂 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