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20 August: Naitonal Day (Hungary)

• 1000 – The foondation o the Hungarian state bi Saunt Stephen, celebratit as a Naitional Day in Hungary.
• 1866 – Preses Andrew Johnson (picturt) formally declares the American Ceevil War ower.
• 1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stuid for 75 years till it wis braken bi Alex Rodriguez.
• 1940 – In Mexico Ceety, Mexico exiled Roushie revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally woundit wi an ice aix bi Ramón Mercader. He dees the next day.
• 1977 – Voyager programme: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

Benjamin Harrison (b. 1833) · Andrew Garfield (b. 1983) · Demi Lovato (b. 1992)