August 20th observes International Day of Medical Transporters and Chocolate Pecan Pie Day.
NASA announced they would send a ship to Jupiter's moon, Europa, to look for extraterrestrial life.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that measles cases were at an all-time record high, with 41,000 in the first half of the year alone.
A suicide bomber killed 57 people while injuring 66 in Gaziantep, Turkey.
More than 30 military students were injured in a mass pillow fight leading to a ban of the event in future years.
England was defeated by South Africa, who became top of the world Test cricket rank.
Mother Teresa contracted malaria and spent one week in hospital in New Delhi, India.
Estonia claimed its independence from USSR.
The Iran-Iraq war ended in a stalemate after nearly eight years of conflict.
NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
Exiled Soviet leader Leon Trotsky was assassinated with an ice axe in Mexico City.
The ''LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin” returned to Lakehurst, New Jersey, after being the first airship to circumference the earth in one journey.
The Erickson Brothers submitted the application for the first dial telephone patent.
President Andrew Johnson declared that the American civil war was over.
