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20 August 2019 - Tuesday

  • World day of homeless animals

  • Marina-Pimeny

  • Birthday Cheburashka

  • Day music boxes

  • Day strengthening rears

  • Day of Restoration of Independence - Estonia

  • Feast of St. Stephen - Hungary

  • Day of People's revolution - Morocco

  • Nineteen Day Feast month Asma ( Holidays Baha'i) (photo)

  • Uncovering of the relics of St. Mitrofan, first bishop of Voronezh ( Orthodox holidays) (photo)

    • Events of the day:

  • August 20, 1634 published the first primer

  • August 20, 1721 launched the first fountains and cascades of Peterhof

  • August 20, 1741 the first Russian navigator Vitus Bering discovered Alaska

  • August 20 1896 patented rotary dial phone with

  • August 20, 1912 patented the phonograph and elektrobatareya

  •  August 20, 1913 in Kiev, the First All-Russia Sports Olympiad

  • August 20, 1922 in Moscow began broadcasting broadcast radio

  • August 20, 1925 in the Soviet Union created the Society of Friends of Soviet Cinema

  • August 20, 1951 in the USSR based DOSAAF ( Voluntary society for Assistance to army, air Force and Navy)

  • August 20, 1977 in the United States launched the spacecraft «Voyager 2" for the study of distant planets of the solar system

    • Birthday party:

  • Alexander, Alexey, Anton, Athanasius

  • Basil, Dmitri, Ivan, Mitrofan

  • Michael, Nicanor, Peter

    • On this day were born:

    Benjamin Harrison

    Boleslaw Prus

    William Pohlebkin

    Vasily Aksenov

    Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky

    Slobodan Milosevic

    Rajiv Gandhi

    On this day, died:

    Friedrich Brockhaus

    Friedrich Schelling

    Paul Ehrlich

    Vilfredo Pareto

    Joe Dassin

    Semen Farad

    Lev Durov



    19 August 2019

    21 August 2019

    Current time and date

    19:25:40 20-08-2019

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