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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_20" title="August 20">August 20</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1707" title="1707">1707</a> – The first <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Pensacola_(1707)" title="Siege of Pensacola (1707)">Siege of Pensacola</a></b> came to an end with the British and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscogee" title="Muscogee">Creek</a> abandoning their attempt to capture <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola,_Florida" title="Pensacola, Florida">Pensacola</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">Spanish Florida</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910" title="1910">1910</a> – Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho" title="Idaho">Idaho</a> into the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1910" title="Great Fire of 1910">Devil's Broom fire</a></b>, which burned about 4,700 square miles (12,100 km²), the largest fire in recorded U.S. history.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920" title="1920">1920</a> – The American Professional Football Association, a predecessor of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a></b>, was founded.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998" title="1998">1998</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory" title="Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory">Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory</a> in Sudan was destroyed by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infinite_Reach" title="Operation Infinite Reach">a missile attack</a></b> launched by the United States in retaliation for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings" title="1998 United States embassy bombings">August 7 U.S. embassy bombings</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanair_Flight_5022" title="Spanair Flight 5022">Spanair Flight 5022</a></b> crashed just after take-off from Madrid's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid%E2%80%93Barajas_Airport" title="Madrid–Barajas Airport">Barajas Airport</a>, killing 154 people.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremi_Wi%C5%9Bniowiecki" title="Jeremi Wiśniowiecki">Jeremi Wiśniowiecki</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1651); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Lynott" title="Phil Lynott">Phil Lynott</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Garfield" title="Andrew Garfield">Andrew Garfield</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1983); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Dabholkar" title="Narendra Dabholkar">Narendra Dabholkar</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2013)</p>
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