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[[{{PAGENAME}}]] is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 133 days remaining.
[[{{PAGENAME}}]] is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 133 days remaining.


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==Events==
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* [[636]] - [[Battle of Yarmuk]]: [[Arab]] forces led by [[Khalid bin Walid]] take control of [[Syria]] and [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] away from the [[Byzantine Empire]], marking the first great wave of [[Muslim]] conquests and the rapid advance of [[Islam]] outside [[Arabia]].
* [[917]] - [[Battle of Anchialus]]: Tsar [[Simeon I of Bulgaria]] invades [[Thrace]] and drives the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]] out.
*[[1391]] - [[Konrad IV von Wallenrode]] becomes the 24th [[Grand master (order)|Grand Master]] of the [[Teutonic Order]].
*[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] - [[United States|American]] troops force a confederacy of [[Shawnee]], [[Mingo]], [[Lenape|Delaware]], [[Wyandot]], [[Miami tribe|Miami]], [[Ottawa (tribe)|Ottawa]], [[Chippewa]], and [[Potawatomi]] warriors into a disorganized retreat.
*[[1804]] - [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]]: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the [[Louisiana Purchase]], suffers its only death when Sergeant [[Charles Floyd (explorer)|Charles Floyd]] dies, apparently from acute [[appendicitis]].
*[[1833]] - [[Nat Turner]] leads his [[revolt]] against the Southern plantation owners of Southampton County, [[Virginia]]
*[[1882]] - [[Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky]]'s [[1812 Overture]] debuts in [[Moscow]].
*[[1888]] - Mutineers imprison [[Emin Pasha]] at [[Dufile]].
*[[1900]] - [[Japan|Japan's]] primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
*[[1914]] - [[World War I]]: [[Germany|German]] forces occupy [[Brussels]].
*[[1920]] - The first commercial [[radio]] station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in [[Detroit, Michigan]].
*[[1926]] - [[Japan|Japan's]] [[Public broadcasting|public broadcasting]] company, [[NHK|Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK)]] is established.
*[[1938]] - [[Lou Gehrig]] hits his 23rd career grand slam--a record that still stands.
*[[1940]] - Exiled [[Russia]]n revolutionary [[Leon Trotsky]] is fatally wounded in [[Mexico City]] by an assassin's ice axe. He will die the next day.
*[[1944]] - The [[Battle of Romania (1944)|Battle of Romania]] begins with a major Soviet offensive.
*[[1955]] - In [[Morocco]], a force of [[Berber]]s from the [[Atlas Mountains]] region of [[Algeria]], raid two rural settlements and kill 77 [[France|French]] nationals.
*[[1960]] - [[Senegal]] breaks from the [[Mali]] federation, declaring independence.
* 1965 - [[Ilias Tsirimokos]] becomes [[List of Prime Ministers of Greece|Prime Minister of Greece]].
*[[1968]] - 200,000 [[Warsaw Pact]] troops and 5,000 [[tank]]s invade [[Czechoslovakia]] to end the "[[Prague Spring]]" of political liberalization.
*[[1975]] - [[Viking program]]: [[NASA]] launches the [[Viking 1]] planetary probe toward [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].
*[[1977]] - [[Voyager program]]: The [[United States]] launches the [[Voyager 2]] spacecraft.
*[[1982]] - [[Lebanese Civil War]]: A multinational force lands in [[Beirut]] to oversee the [[PLO]] withdrawal from [[Lebanon]].
*[[1986]] - In [[Edmond, Oklahoma]], [[United States Postal Service|US Postal]] employee [[Patrick Sherrill|Patrick Henry Sherrill]] guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits [[suicide]].
*[[1988]] - [[Peru]] becomes a member of the [[Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works|Berne Convention]] [[copyright]] [[treaty]].
*[[1989]] - In [[Beverly Hills, California]], [[Lyle and Erik Menendez]] shoot and kill their wealthy parents.
*[[1991]] - [[Collapse of the Soviet Union]]: More than 100,000 people rally outside the [[Soviet Union]]'s parliament building protesting the [[coup]] aiming to depose President [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]. [[Estonia]] reclaimed its independence and seceded from the [[Soviet Union]]. Estonia had been occupied by the Soviets for more than 50 years.
*[[1993]] - After rounds of secret negotiations in [[Norway]], the [[Oslo Peace Accords]] were signed, followed by a public ceremony in [[Washington, D.C.]] the next month.
*[[1994]] - Circus elephant trainer [[Allen Campbell]] is crushed to death in Honolulu, Hawaii, by the performing elephant "[[Tyke (elephant)|Tyke]]".
*[[1997]] - [[Souhane massacre]] in [[Algeria]]; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.
*[[1998]] - The [[Supreme Court of Canada]] states [[Quebec]] cannot legally secede from [[Canada]] without the federal government's approval.
* 1998 - [[1998 U.S. embassy bombings|U.S. embassy bombings]]: The [[United States military]] launches [[cruise missile]] attacks against alleged [[al-Qaida]] camps in [[Afghanistan]] and a suspected chemical plant in [[Sudan]] in retaliation for the [[August 7]] bombings of American embassies in [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]]. The [[al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory]] in [[Khartoum]] is destroyed in the attack.


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Revision as of 17:00, 3 August 2006

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August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 133 days remaining.

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