Talk:August 20

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August 20 Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory 1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola came to an end with the British and Creek abandoning their attempt to capture Pensacola in Spanish Florida. 1910 – Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which burned about 4,700 square miles (12,100 km²), the largest fire in recorded U.S. history. 1920 – The American Professional Football Association, a predecessor of the National Football League, was founded. 1998 – The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory (pictured) in Sudan was destroyed by a missile attack launched by the United States in retaliation for the August 7 U.S. embassy bombings. 2008 – Spanair Flight 5022 crashed just after take-off from Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 154 people. Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (d. 1651) Phil Lynott (b. 1949) Andrew Garfield (b. 1983) Narendra Dabholkar (d. 2013) More anniversaries: August 19 August 20 August 21

'68 invasion of Czech.

I suggest that tomorrow, on its 50th anniversary, the following event be included in OTD:

• 1968 – Cold War: Soviet-controlled Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring liberalization movement led by Alexander Dubček.

This was a watershed event in the Cold War – the third and last time the Soviet Union intervened militarily in a Warsaw Pact satellite state. Sca (talk) 15:07, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

William and Catherine Booth

who celebrates them on this day? support?--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 19:03, 20 November 2017 (UTC)