August 20th Holidays
🥱 World Laziness Day
🌼 World Daffodil Day
🦟 World Mosquito Day
🚑 International Day of Medical Transporters
🍟 World French Fry Day (Día Mundial de las Papas Fritas)
👾 Virtual Worlds Day
✝️ Feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
🇺🇸 National Lemonade Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Bacon Lover’s Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Radio Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Accessible Air Travel Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Hazy IPA Day - USA
🇺🇸 Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - USA
🇻🇪 National Firefighter Day (Día Nacional del Bombero) - Venezuela
🇨🇷 National Artist Day (Día del Artista Nacional) - Costa Rica
🇨🇱 Birthday of the Liberator Bernardo O’Higgins (Día del Natalicio del Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins) - Chile
🇵🇪 Callao Day (Día del Callao) - Peru
🇦🇷 Day of Activism for Sexual Diversity (Día del Activismo por la Diversidad Sexual) - Argentina
🇮🇳 Renewable Energy Day (Akshay Urja Diwas, अक्षय ऊर्जा दिवस) - India
🇮🇳 Manipuri Language Day (Manipuri Longi Numit, Meitei Language Day) - India
🇷🇺 Cheburashka Day (День рождения Чебурашки) - Russia
🇺🇿 Entrepreneur’s Day (Tadbirkorlar kuni) - Uzbekistan
🇪🇪 Day of Restoration of Independence (Taasiseseisvumispäev) - Estonia
🇭🇺 Saint Istvan Day (Szent István Nap) - Hungary
🇵🇱 Love Confession Day (Dzień Wyznawania Miłości) - Poland
🇮🇹 National Day of the Principality of Seborga (Festa Nazionale del Principato di Seborga) - Italy
🇲🇦 King and People’s Revolution Day (Thaourat al-malik wa shâab) - Morocco
🇹🇱 FALINTIL Anniversary - East Timor
This Day in History
• On August 20, 1896, A dial-in telephone has been patented in the USA 130 yr.
• On August 20, 1912, the phonograph and the electric battery are patented 114 yr.
• On August 20, 1977, The Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched in the USA to explore the distant planets of the Solar system 49 yr.
