Talk:August 20

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August 20 Pluto 917 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Bulgarian forces led by Tsar Simeon I drove the Byzantines out of Thrace with a decisive victory at the Battle of Achelous. 1892 – Celtic Park, the largest football stadium in Scotland and home of Celtic F.C., opened. 1909 – Pluto (pictured) was photographed for the first time at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 21 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. 1988 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a bus carrying British Army soldiers in Northern Ireland, killing eight of them and wounding twenty-eight. 1989 – After colliding with the dredger Bowbelle on the River Thames in London, the pleasure boat Marchioness sank in thirty seconds, killing 51 people. James Prinsep (b. 1799) Rudolf Bultmann (b. 1884) Agnes Giberne (d. 1939) Amy Adams (b. 1974) 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)