August 20th 917 Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines.
August 20th 1534 Turkish admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" occupies Tunis.
August 20th 1604 Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice.
August 20th 1648 Battle of Lens: French Duc d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
August 20th 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers: Major General "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeats a joint British-Native American force at Fallen Timbers.
August 20th 1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia.
August 20th 1914 German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians.
August 20th 1914 Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia Russians defeated the Germans.
August 20th 1914 Battle at Morhange German troops chase French.
August 20th 1914 Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny, France.
August 20th 1914 German army captured Brussels.
August 20th 1918 Britain opens offensive on Western front.
August 20th 1935 Military coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador.
August 20th 1939 Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia.
August 20th 1940 1st Polish squadrons fight along allies in the Battle of Britain.
August 20th 1940 Churchill make the famous speech "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
August 20th 1944 French General Charles de Gaulle returns to France.
August 20th 1944 US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap.
August 20th 1945 Soviet troops occupy Harbin & Mukden.
August 20th 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR.
August 20th 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR.
August 20th 1972 USSR performs underground nuclear test.
August 20th 1982 US marines land in Beirut Lebanon.
August 20th 2021 HMS Brocklesby Official left its base at Bahrain for Home HMNB Portsmouth.
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