What happend on 20th August

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2004

Talk show host Regis Philbin breaks the record for Most Hours on Camera, with 15,188.

1998

1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.

1998

The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.

1997

Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.

1993

After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the next month.

1991

Collapse of the Soviet Union: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev. Estonia reclaimed its indenpendence and seceded from the Soviet Union. Estonia had been occupied by the Soviets for more than 50 years.

1988

Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1986

In Edmond, Oklahoma, US Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.

1982

Craig Smith is born in Riverside Hospital in Secaucus, New Jersey.

1982

Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.