Silent Sam, a Confederate monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was toppled by protestors.
ClockHorizon daily selection“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
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.
A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
First Air Flight 6560 crashes 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Resolute Bay runway, killing 12 of the 15 aboard.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
One highlighted entry is from 2018: Silent Sam, a Confederate monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was toppled by protestors.
People listed for August 20 include Prince Gabriel of Belgium (2003), Lieke Klaver (1998), and Kaho Minagawa (1997).
Observances listed for August 20 include Christian feast day: Amadour, Christian feast day: August 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), and Christian feast day: Bernard of Clairvaux.
