August 20 is:
National Radio Day
National Bacon Lovers Day
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day
A handful of Pecans provide nearly 10 percent of the recommended Daily Value for zinc. If the body does not get enough zinc, it may have difficulty producing testosterone – a key hormone in initiating sexual desire in both men and women.
Texas adopted the pecan tree as its state tree in 1919. In fact, Texas Governor James Hogg liked pecan trees so much that he asked if a pecan tree could be planted at his gravesite when he died. His wish was carried out.
August 20 – Feast day of Stephen I of Hungary who, in 1000 set the foundation of the Hungarian state. Celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
August 20, 1775 – The Spanish established the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
Birthday of Oliver Hazard Perry (August 20, 1785), American naval officer famous for the statement “We have met the enemy and they are ours”.
1858 – Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace’s same theory.
President Andrew Johnson formally declared the American Civil War over in 1866.
Tchaikovsky‘s 1812 Overture debuted in Moscow, Russia in 1882.
August 20, 1940: In Mexico City exiled Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, was fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He died the next day.
1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sank on the River Thames following a collision. 51 people were killed.
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
Augusst 20, 1998, U.S. embassy bombings: the United States military launched 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 was destroyed in the attack.