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| August 20th, 2007 (August 20 2007) | Death | Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (born in 1920) | |
| August 20th, 2007 (August 20 2007) | Death | Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (born in 1942) | Bruce Lee Quotes |
| August 20th, 2006 (August 20 2006) | Death | Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (born in 1932) | |
| August 20th, 2006 (August 20 2006) | Death | Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (born in 1911) | |
| August 20th, 2006 (August 20 2006) | Death | Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Afghanistan) (born in 1977) | |
| August 20th, 2005 (August 20 2005) | Death | Thomas Herrion, American football player (born in 1981) | |
| August 20th, 2005 (August 20 2005) | Death | Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (born in 1970) | |
| August 20th, 2003 (August 20 2003) | Birth | Prince Gabriel of Belgium | |
| August 20th, 2002 (August 20 2002) | Event | A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| August 20th, 2001 (August 20 2001) | Death | Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (born in 1915) | Fred Hoyle Quotes |
| August 20th, 2001 (August 20 2001) | Death | Kim Stanley, American actress (born in 1925) | |
| August 20th, 1998 (August 20 1998) | Event | The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government s approval. | |
| August 20th, 1998 (August 20 1998) | Event | U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches 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 is destroyed in the attack. | |
| August 20th, 1998 (August 20 1998) | Death | Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (born in 1915) | |
| August 20th, 1997 (August 20 1997) | Event | Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped. | |
| August 20th, 1997 (August 20 1997) | Death | Norris Bradbury, American physicist (born in 1909) | |
| August 20th, 1997 (August 20 1997) | Death | Leon Dion, French-Canadian political scientist (born in 1922) | |
| August 20th, 1993 (August 20 1993) | Event | After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the next month. | |
| August 20th, 1993 (August 20 1993) | Death | Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (born in 1912) | Philo Quotes |
| August 20th, 1992 (August 20 1992) | Birth | Demi Lovato, American Actress | |
| August 20th, 1991 (August 20 1991) | Event | Collapse of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union s parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. | |
| August 20th, 1991 (August 20 1991) | Event | Estonia secedes from the Soviet Union. | |
| August 20th, 1991 (August 20 1991) | Birth | Marko Dokovic, Serbian tennis player | |
| August 20th, 1989 (August 20 1989) | Death | George Adamson, India-born English game warden and lion expert (born in 1906) | |
| August 20th, 1988 (August 20 1988) | Event | "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park | |
| August 20th, 1988 (August 20 1988) | Event | Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
| August 20th, 1988 (August 20 1988) | Event | Iran-Iraq War: A cease-fire is agreed to after almost eight years of war. | |
| August 20th, 1987 (August 20 1987) | Birth | Catalina Ponor, Romanian gymnast | |
| August 20th, 1986 (August 20 1986) | Event | In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. | |
| August 20th, 1986 (August 20 1986) | Birth | Robert Clark, Canadian actor | |
| August 20th, 1986 (August 20 1986) | Death | Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (born in 1923) | |
| August 20th, 1984 (August 20 1984) | Birth | Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor | |
| August 20th, 1982 (August 20 1982) | Event | Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. | |
| August 20th, 1982 (August 20 1982) | Birth | Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer | |
| August 20th, 1982 (August 20 1982) | Birth | Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer | |
| August 20th, 1982 (August 20 1982) | Birth | Cleber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer | |
| August 20th, 1982 (August 20 1982) | Death | Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (born in 1929) | |
| August 20th, 1981 (August 20 1981) | Birth | Bernard Mendy, French footballer | |
| August 20th, 1981 (August 20 1981) | Birth | Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian) | |
| August 20th, 1980 (August 20 1980) | Birth | Rochelle Gadd, British actress | |
| August 20th, 1980 (August 20 1980) | Birth | Corey Carrier, American actor | |
| August 20th, 1980 (August 20 1980) | Death | Joe Dassin, American singer (born in 1938) | |
| August 20th, 1979 (August 20 1979) | Event | The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens. | |
| August 20th, 1979 (August 20 1979) | Birth | Cory Sullivan, baseball player | |
| August 20th, 1977 (August 20 1977) | Event | Voyager Program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. | |
| August 20th, 1977 (August 20 1977) | Birth | Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player | |
| August 20th, 1977 (August 20 1977) | Birth | Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player | |
| August 20th, 1977 (August 20 1977) | Birth | Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer | |
| August 20th, 1977 (August 20 1977) | Birth | Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress | |
| August 20th, 1976 (August 20 1976) | Birth | Chris Drury, American hockey player | |
| August 20th, 1975 (August 20 1975) | Event | Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. | |
| August 20th, 1975 (August 20 1975) | Birth | Marcus Mastin, American author | |
| August 20th, 1975 (August 20 1975) | Birth | Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End) | |
| August 20th, 1974 (August 20 1974) | Event | Congress votes to reduce aid to South Vietnam from $1 Billion to $700 Million. Majority of the cuts were for military supplies. | |
| August 20th, 1974 (August 20 1974) | Birth | Amy Adams, American actress | |
| August 20th, 1974 (August 20 1974) | Birth | Big Moe, American rapper (died in 2007) | |
| August 20th, 1974 (August 20 1974) | Birth | Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist | |
| August 20th, 1974 (August 20 1974) | Birth | Szabolcs Safar, Hungarian footballer | |
| August 20th, 1973 (August 20 1973) | Birth | Todd Helton, baseball player | |
| August 20th, 1971 (August 20 1971) | Birth | Brad Avery, American musician (guitarist for Third Day) | |
| August 20th, 1971 (August 20 1971) | Birth | Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese American actor | |
| August 20th, 1971 (August 20 1971) | Birth | Steve Stone, English footballer | |
| August 20th, 1971 (August 20 1971) | Birth | David Walliams, British comedian | |
| August 20th, 1971 (August 20 1971) | Death | Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (born in 1951) | |
| August 20th, 1970 (August 20 1970) | Birth | Els Callens, Belgian tennis player | |
| August 20th, 1970 (August 20 1970) | Birth | John D. Carmack, American computer game programmer | |
| August 20th, 1970 (August 20 1970) | Birth | Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit) | |
| August 20th, 1969 (August 20 1969) | Event | All four Beatles were together in the recording studio for the final time as they finished the Abbey Road LP. | |
| August 20th, 1969 (August 20 1969) | Birth | Duke Droese, American professional wrestler | |
| August 20th, 1968 (August 20 1968) | Event | 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization. | |
| August 20th, 1968 (August 20 1968) | Birth | Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer | |
| August 20th, 1968 (August 20 1968) | Birth | Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer | |
| August 20th, 1967 (August 20 1967) | Birth | Andy Benes, baseball player | |
| August 20th, 1967 (August 20 1967) | Birth | Colin Cunningham, American actor | |
| August 20th, 1967 (August 20 1967) | Birth | Terri Poch, American yogini and former professional wrestler | |
| August 20th, 1966 (August 20 1966) | Birth | Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (died in 2004) | |
| August 20th, 1965 (August 20 1965) | Birth | KRS-One, American rapper | |
| August 20th, 1965 (August 20 1965) | Death | Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Civil Rights Martyr (born in 1939) | |
| August 20th, 1962 (August 20 1962) | Birth | Sophie Aldred, English actress | |
| August 20th, 1962 (August 20 1962) | Birth | James Marsters, American actor | |
| August 20th, 1962 (August 20 1962) | Birth | Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player | |
| August 20th, 1961 (August 20 1961) | Birth | Greg Egan, Australian author | |
| August 20th, 1961 (August 20 1961) | Birth | Joe Pasquale, English comedian | |
| August 20th, 1961 (August 20 1961) | Death | Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1882) | |
| August 20th, 1960 (August 20 1960) | Event | Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring independence. | |
| August 20th, 1959 (August 20 1959) | Death | William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (born in 1882) | |
| August 20th, 1957 (August 20 1957) | Birth | Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player | |
| August 20th, 1956 (August 20 1956) | Birth | Joan Allen, American actress | |
| August 20th, 1955 (August 20 1955) | Event | In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals. | |
| August 20th, 1955 (August 20 1955) | Birth | Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer | |
| August 20th, 1954 (August 20 1954) | Birth | Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (died in 2007) | |
| August 20th, 1954 (August 20 1954) | Birth | Al Roker, American television personality | |
| August 20th, 1954 (August 20 1954) | Birth | Don Stark, American actor | |
| August 20th, 1953 (August 20 1953) | Event | The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb. | |
| August 20th, 1952 (August 20 1952) | Birth | John Hiatt, American musician | |
| August 20th, 1952 (August 20 1952) | Birth | Doug Fieger, American musician (The Knack) | |
| August 20th, 1952 (August 20 1952) | Birth | John Emburey, English cricketer | |
| August 20th, 1951 (August 20 1951) | Birth | Greg Bear, American author | |
| August 20th, 1949 (August 20 1949) | Birth | Phil Lynott, Irish musician (died in 1986) | |
| August 20th, 1949 (August 20 1949) | Birth | Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (died in 1988) | |
| August 20th, 1949 (August 20 1949) | Birth | Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer | |
| August 20th, 1949 (August 20 1949) | Birth | Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter | |
| August 20th, 1948 (August 20 1948) | Birth | Robert Plant,British Musician (Led Zeppelin) | |
| August 20th, 1948 (August 20 1948) | Birth | John Noble, Australian actor | |
| August 20th, 1947 (August 20 1947) | Birth | Alan Lee, English conceptual artist | |
| August 20th, 1946 (August 20 1946) | Birth | Connie Chung, American journalist | |
| August 20th, 1946 (August 20 1946) | Birth | Ralf Hutter, German musician (Kraftwerk) | |
| August 20th, 1946 (August 20 1946) | Birth | N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman | |
| August 20th, 1944 (August 20 1944) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive. | |
| August 20th, 1944 (August 20 1944) | Birth | Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (died in 1991) | |
| August 20th, 1943 (August 20 1943) | Birth | Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor | |
| August 20th, 1942 (August 20 1942) | Birth | Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor | |
| August 20th, 1942 (August 20 1942) | Birth | Fred Norman, American baseball player | |
| August 20th, 1941 (August 20 1941) | Birth | Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (died in 2006) | |
| August 20th, 1941 (August 20 1941) | Birth | Rich Brooks, American football coach | |
| August 20th, 1941 (August 20 1941) | Birth | Robin Oakley, British journalist | |
| August 20th, 1941 (August 20 1941) | Birth | Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author | |
| August 20th, 1940 (August 20 1940) | Event | Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin s ice axe. He dies the next day. | Leon Trotsky Quotes |
| August 20th, 1940 (August 20 1940) | Birth | Ruben Hinojosa, American politician | |
| August 20th, 1939 (August 20 1939) | Birth | Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (died in 2004) | |
| August 20th, 1938 (August 20 1938) | Event | Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slama record that still stands. | |
| August 20th, 1938 (August 20 1938) | Birth | Alain Vivien, French politician | |
| August 20th, 1937 (August 20 1937) | Birth | Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director | |
| August 20th, 1937 (August 20 1937) | Birth | El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (died in 2007) | |
| August 20th, 1937 (August 20 1937) | Birth | Jim Bowen, English comedian | |
| August 20th, 1936 (August 20 1936) | Birth | Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| August 20th, 1934 (August 20 1934) | Birth | Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen | |
| August 20th, 1933 (August 20 1933) | Birth | George J. Mitchell, former United States Senator | |
| August 20th, 1932 (August 20 1932) | Birth | Anthony Ainley, British actor (died in 2004) | |
| August 20th, 1932 (August 20 1932) | Birth | Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist | |
| August 20th, 1931 (August 20 1931) | Birth | Don King, American Boxing Promoter | |
| August 20th, 1930 (August 20 1930) | Birth | Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor | |
| August 20th, 1930 (August 20 1930) | Death | Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (born in 1851) | |
| August 20th, 1927 (August 20 1927) | Birth | Geriatric1927, English video blogger | |
| August 20th, 1927 (August 20 1927) | Birth | Yootha Joyce, English actress (died in 1980) | |
| August 20th, 1926 (August 20 1926) | Event | Japan s public broadcasting company, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is established. | |
| August 20th, 1926 (August 20 1926) | Birth | Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach | |
| August 20th, 1923 (August 20 1923) | Birth | Jim Reeves, American singer (died in 1964) | |
| August 20th, 1920 (August 20 1920) | Event | The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan. | |
| August 20th, 1918 (August 20 1918) | Birth | Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (died in 1974) | |
| August 20th, 1917 (August 20 1917) | Death | Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1835) | |
| August 20th, 1916 (August 20 1916) | Birth | Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (died in 1984) | Paul Schmidt Quotes |
| August 20th, 1915 (August 20 1915) | Death | Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (born in 1854) | |
| August 20th, 1914 (August 20 1914) | Event | World War I: German forces occupy Brussels. | |
| August 20th, 1914 (August 20 1914) | Death | Pope Pius X (born in 1835) | |
| August 20th, 1913 (August 20 1913) | Birth | Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died in 1994) | |
| August 20th, 1912 (August 20 1912) | Death | William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (born in 1829) | William Booth Quotes |
| August 20th, 1910 (August 20 1910) | Birth | Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (died in 1961) | |
| August 20th, 1908 (August 20 1908) | Birth | Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (died in 2005) | |
| August 20th, 1905 (August 20 1905) | Birth | Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (died in 1973) | |
| August 20th, 1905 (August 20 1905) | Birth | Jack Teagarden, American musician (died in 1964) | |
| August 20th, 1904 (August 20 1904) | Death | Rene Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (born in 1846) | |
| August 20th, 1901 (August 20 1901) | Birth | Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1968) | |
| August 20th, 1900 (August 20 1900) | Event | Japan s primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling. | Ovid Quotes |
| August 20th, 1898 (August 20 1898) | Birth | Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (died in 1973) | |
| August 20th, 1897 (August 20 1897) | Birth | Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (died in 1970) | |
| August 20th, 1890 (August 20 1890) | Birth | H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (died in 1937) | H. P. Lovecraft Quotes |
| August 20th, 1888 (August 20 1888) | Event | Mutineers imprison Emin Pasha at Dufile. | |
| August 20th, 1887 (August 20 1887) | Death | Jules Laforgue, French poet (born in 1860) | |
| August 20th, 1886 (August 20 1886) | Birth | Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (died in 1965) | |
| August 20th, 1882 (August 20 1882) | Event | Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow. | |
| August 20th, 1881 (August 20 1881) | Birth | Edgar Guest, English poet (died in 1959) | |
| August 20th, 1873 (August 20 1873) | Birth | Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (died in 1950) | |
| August 20th, 1868 (August 20 1868) | Birth | Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (died in 1954) | |
| August 20th, 1866 (August 20 1866) | Event | President Andrew Johnson formally declared the U.S. Civil War over. | Andrew Johnson Quotes |
| August 20th, 1860 (August 20 1860) | Birth | Raymond Poincare, French statesman (died in 1934) | |
| August 20th, 1856 (August 20 1856) | Birth | Jakub Bart-Cisinski, Sorbian writer (died in 1909) | |
| August 20th, 1847 (August 20 1847) | Birth | Boleslaw Prus, Polish writer (died in 1912) | |
| August 20th, 1845 (August 20 1845) | Birth | St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (died in 1916) | |
| August 20th, 1833 (August 20 1833) | Birth | Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (died in 1901) | |
| August 20th, 1825 (August 20 1825) | Death | William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (born in 1753) | |
| August 20th, 1823 (August 20 1823) | Death | Pope Pius VII (born in 1740) | |
| August 20th, 1811 (August 20 1811) | Death | Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (born in 1729) | |
| August 20th, 1804 (August 20 1804) | Event | Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis. | |
| August 20th, 1794 (August 20 1794) | Event | Battle of Fallen TimbersAmerican troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat. | Tom Ze Quotes |
| August 20th, 1779 (August 20 1779) | Birth | Jons Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (died in 1848) | |
| August 20th, 1776 (August 20 1776) | Birth | Bernardo O Higgins, South American revolutionary (died in 1842) | |
| August 20th, 1773 (August 20 1773) | Death | Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (born in 1701) | |
| August 20th, 1719 (August 20 1719) | Birth | Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (died in 1783) | |
| August 20th, 1719 (August 20 1719) | Birth | Charles-Francois de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (died in 1791) | |
| August 20th, 1710 (August 20 1710) | Birth | Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (died in 1761) | |
| August 20th, 1707 (August 20 1707) | Death | Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (born in 1627) | |
| August 20th, 1701 (August 20 1701) | Death | Charles Sedley, English playwright (born in 1639) | |
| August 20th, 1680 (August 20 1680) | Death | William Bedloe, English informer (born in 1650) | |
| August 20th, 1672 (August 20 1672) | Event | Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis were brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague. | |
| August 20th, 1672 (August 20 1672) | Death | Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (born in 1625) | |
| August 20th, 1672 (August 20 1672) | Death | Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (born in 1623) | |
| August 20th, 1648 (August 20 1648) | Death | Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (born in 1583) | Philo Quotes |
| August 20th, 1643 (August 20 1643) | Death | Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (born in 1591) | |
| August 20th, 1639 (August 20 1639) | Death | Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (born in 1597) | |
| August 20th, 1632 (August 20 1632) | Birth | Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (died in 1704) | |
| August 20th, 1625 (August 20 1625) | Birth | Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (died in 1709) | |
| August 20th, 1611 (August 20 1611) | Death | Tomas Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (born in 1548) | |
| August 20th, 1580 (August 20 1580) | Death | Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (born in 1506) | |
| August 20th, 1572 (August 20 1572) | Death | Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (born in 1502) | |
| August 20th, 1561 (August 20 1561) | Birth | Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (died in 1633) | |
| August 20th, 1517 (August 20 1517) | Birth | Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (died in 1586) | |
| August 20th, 1391 (August 20 1391) | Event | Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order. | |
| August 20th, 1384 (August 20 1384) | Death | Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (born in 1340) | |
| August 20th, 1000 (August 20 1000) | Event | The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. | Stephen King Quotes |
| August 20th, 0984 (August 20 0984) | Death | Pope John XIV | |
| August 20th, 0917 (August 20 0917) | Event | Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out. | |
| August 20th, 0636 (August 20 0636) | Event | Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia. | |
| August 20th, 0535 (August 20 0535) | Death | Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick | |
