{"id":23038,"date":"2020-08-20T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23038"},"modified":"2020-08-20T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T04:46:11","slug":"history-of-20-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-20-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 20 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1991 &#8211; A rally of more than 100,000\npeople occurred outside the Russian parliament building to protest the coup\nthat removed Gorbachev from power.<\/li><li>1997 &#8211; NATO troops seized six police\nstations in Banja Luka that had been held by troops controlled by former\nBosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; Canada&#8217;s Supreme Court\nannounced that Quebec could not secede without the federal government&#8217;s consent.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211;&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;military\nforces attacked a terrorist camp in Afghanistan and a chemical plant in Sudan.\nBoth targets were chosen for cruise missile strikes due to their connection\nwith Osama bin Laden.<\/li><li>1997 &#8211; Britain began voluntary\nevacuation of its Caribbean island of Montserrat due to the volcanic activity\nof the Soufriere Hills.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; The U.N. Security Council\nextended trade sanctions against Iraq for blocking arms inspections.<\/li><li>2010 &#8211; The last American combat\nbrigade exited Iraq after more than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion\nbegan. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2012\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0prison riot\u00a0in the\u00a0Venezuelan\u00a0capital,\u00a0Caracas, kills at least 20 people.<\/li><li>2014\u00a0\u2013 Seventy-two people are killed in Japan&#8217;s\u00a0Hiroshima Prefecture\u00a0by a series of\u00a0landslides\u00a0caused by a month&#8217;s worth of rain that fell in one day.<\/li><li>2016\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fifty-four people are killed\u00a0when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in\u00a0Gaziantep,\u00a0Turkey.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ben Barnes, English actor<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Brett Finch, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Artur Kotenko, Estonian footballer<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Bernard Mendy, French footballer<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Craig Ochs, American football player<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Byron Saxton, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster<\/li><li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cl\u00e9ber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Aleksandr Amisulashvili, Georgian footballer<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Monty Dumond, South African rugby player<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Mija\u00edn L\u00f3pez, Cuban wrestler<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Richard Petiot, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Enyelbert Soto, Venezuelan-Japanese baseball player<\/li><li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hamza Abdullah, American football player<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Paulo Andr\u00e9 Cren Benini, Brazilian footballer<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Andrew Garfield, American-English actor<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0H\u00e9ctor Landazuri, Colombian footballer<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Mladen Pelai\u0107, Croatian footballer<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Brian Schaefering, American football player<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer<\/li><li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A\u00edlton Jos\u00e9 Almeida, Brazilian footballer<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Pavel Eismann, Czech footballer<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Laura Georges, French footballer<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Jamie Hoffmann, American baseball player<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Ingrid Lukas, Estonian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist<\/li><li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brant Daugherty, American actor<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Glen Buttriss, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Blake DeWitt, American baseball player<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Thomas Domingo, French rugby player<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Matt Hague, American baseball player<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Jack King, English footballer<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0\u00c1lvaro Negredo, Spanish footballer<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Willie Ripia, New Zealand rugby player<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Joe Vitale, American ice hockey player<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Stephen Ward, Irish footballer<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Mark Washington, American football player<\/li><li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andrew Surman, South African-English footballer<\/li><li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Steven Zalewski, American ice hockey player<\/li><li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stefan Aigner, German footballer<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Vedran Janjetovi\u0107, Croatian-Australian footballer<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Sido Jombati, Portuguese footballer<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Egon Kaur, Estonian race car driver<\/li><li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Sarah R, Lotfi, American director, producer, and screenwriter<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Zamora, Spanish footballer<\/li><li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kirko Bangz, American rapper and producer<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Nebil Gahwagi, Hungarian footballer<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Silas Kiplagat, Kenyan runner<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Slavcho Shokolarov, Bulgarian footballer<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Judd Trump, English snooker player<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Dean Winnard, English footballer<\/li><li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Macauley Chrisantus, Nigerian footballer<\/li><li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Culoe De Song, South African music producer and DJ<\/li><li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Venelin Filipov, Bulgarian footballer<\/li><li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer<\/li><li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Fabien Jarsal\u00e9, French footballer<\/li><li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Bradley Klahn, American tennis player<\/li><li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer<sup><a 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footballer<\/li><li>1995\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Liana Liberato, American television and film actress<\/li><li>1996\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bunty Afoa, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li><li>1999\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Oregon Kaufusi, Australian rugby league player<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1991 &#8211; A rally of more than 100,000 people occurred outside the Russian parliament building to protest the coup that removed Gorbachev from power. 1997 &#8211; NATO troops seized six police stations in Banja Luka that had been held by troops controlled by former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic. 1998 &#8211; Canada&#8217;s Supreme Court announced 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