Huns-Battle of the Catalaunian Plains

Sunday Aug 20, 451 - France

Byzantine Empire-Battle of Achelous

Friday Aug 20, 917 - Achelous river near Anchialus (Present-Day in Pomorie)

Crusades-Massacre at Ayyadieh

Tuesday Aug 20, 1191 - Acre

Lothar Meyer-Birth

Friday Aug 20, 1830 - Varel, Duchy of Oldenburg (Present Day Varel, Germany)

Xinhai Revolution-Tongmenghui (United League)

Sunday Aug 20, 1905 - Tokyo, China

Disasters with highest death tolls-Great Fire of 1910

Saturday Aug 20, 1910 - Montana and Idaho, U.S.

Irish War of Independence-Oath of Allegiance

Wednesday Aug 20, 1919 - Ireland

Mao Zedong-The Hundred Regiments Campaign

Tuesday Aug 20, 1940 - North China

Winston Churchill-Churchill made a statement that created a famous nickname

Tuesday Aug 20, 1940 - England, United Kingdom

Slobodan Milošević-Born

Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 - Požarevac, Serbia (Then German-occupied Serbia)

Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle allowed to entered Paris

Sunday Aug 20, 1944 - Paris, France

World War II-Jassy–Kishinev Offensive

Sunday Aug 20, 1944 - Romania

Korean War-China warning

Sunday Aug 20, 1950 - China

Algerian War-The massacre of Pieds-Noirs

Saturday Aug 20, 1955 - Skikda, Algeria

The Beatles-The Last Occasion on which all Four Beatles Were Together

Wednesday Aug 20, 1969 - England

Ted Bundy-Thompson flew to Seattle with two other detectives to interview Kloepfer

Wednesday Aug 20, 1975 - Seattle, Washington, U.S.

Johan Cruyff-To Los Angeles

Monday Aug 20, 1979 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Mass Shootings in the United States-Edmond Post Office Shooting

Wednesday Aug 20, 1986 - Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S.

Iran–Iraq War-Peace

Saturday Aug 20, 1988 - Iran - Iraq

Gulf War-The ceasefire with Iran

Saturday Aug 20, 1988 - Iraq

Vladimir Putin-Resignation from KGB

Tuesday Aug 20, 1991 - Russia

Dissolution of the Soviet Union-Less centralized state

Tuesday Aug 20, 1991 - Russia

Dissolution of the Soviet Union-Estonia had officially restored its independence

Tuesday Aug 20, 1991 at 11:03:00 PM - Estonia

1997 Asian financial crisis-Bailout package

Wednesday Aug 20, 1997 - Thailand

Apple Inc.-World record

Monday Aug 20, 2012 - U.S.

Dollar Tree-Bid was rejected

Wednesday Aug 20, 2014 - U.S.

Uber-Uber raises $100 million in private equity from the Tata Opportunities Fund

Thursday Aug 20, 2015 - Bombay House, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Christian Mayer Birth

Sunday Aug 20, 1719 - Modřice

Charles-Franois de Broglie Birth

Sunday Aug 20, 1719 - Paris

Cornelis de Witt was hanged up

Saturday Aug 20, 1672 - Chatham

Atomic Bomb-The First Time To Use Nuclear Weapons In War

Monday Aug 6, 1945 - Hiroshima, Japan

Harry S. Truman-Hiroshima atomic bomb

Monday Aug 6, 1945 - Hiroshima, Japan

Second Sino-Japanese War-Atomic bombings of Hiroshima

Monday Aug 6, 1945 - Hiroshima, Japan

World War II-Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Monday Aug 6, 1945 - Japan

Second Sino-Japanese War-Atomic bombings of Nagasaki

Wednesday Aug 8, 1945 - Nagasaki, Japan

Harry S. Truman-Nagasaki atomic bomb

Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Nagasaki, Japan

Korean War-Soviet Union declared war on Japan

Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Japan

Atomic Bomb-The Second Time To Use Nuclear Weapons In War

Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Nagasaki, Japan

Second Sino-Japanese War-The Soviet Union renounced its non-aggression Pact With Japan

Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Manchuria, China

Harry S. Truman-Soviet Union declared war on Japan

Thursday Aug 9, 1945 - Soviet Union, (Russia)

Harry S. Truman-Japan agreed to surrender

Friday Aug 10, 1945 - Japan

Korean War-The Red Army had begun to occupy the northern part of the Korean Peninsula

Friday Aug 10, 1945 - Korea

Korean War-Dividing the Korean Peninsula into Soviet and US occupation zones

Friday Aug 10, 1945 - Washington D.C., U.S.

Hirohito-The Cabinet drafted an "Imperial Rescript Ending The War"

Friday Aug 10, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan

Hirohito-The Emperor informed the imperial family of his decision to surrender

Sunday Aug 12, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan

Ho Chi Minh-August Revolution (1945)

Tuesday Aug 14, 1945 - Vietnam

Hirohito-Accepting the Potsdam Declaration

Tuesday Aug 14, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan

Hirohito-The Kyūjō Incident

Tuesday Aug 14, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan

Second Sino-Japanese War-Japanese Emperor Hirohito capitulated to the Allies

Wednesday Aug 15, 1945 - Japan

World War II-Japan surrendered

Wednesday Aug 15, 1945 - Japan

Hirohito-Broadcast the recording of the Emperor's Surrender Speech

Wednesday Aug 15, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan

Atomic Bomb-Physicist Harry Daghlian received a lethal dose of radiation

Tuesday Aug 21, 1945 - Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.

First Indochina War-Hồ Chí Minh was able to persuade Emperor Bảo Đại

Saturday Aug 25, 1945 - French Indochina (Now Vietnam)

Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle visited New York

Monday Aug 27, 1945 - U.S.

Chinese Civil War-First post-war peace negotiation

Tuesday Aug 28, 1945 - Chongqing, China

First Indochina War-The Vietnamese Famine

1945 - Vietnam

First Indochina War-The Provisional Government of the French Republic wanted to restore its colonial rule in French Indochina

1945 - French Indochina (Now Vietnam)

Shimon Peres-Marriage

1945 - Israel

Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Bribes for Lives

Jan, 1945 - Brünnlitz, Czech Republic

Harald V-Returning to Norway

1945 - Norway

Harald V-The First Member of The Royal Family To attend Public School

1945 - Smestad Skole, Konventveien, Oslo, Norway

Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-After the war

1945 - Czech Republic

Chinese Civil War-Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation

1945 - Japan

Chinese Civil War-Communist Party Liberated Zone

1945 - China

Computer-The First Electronic Programmable Computer built In The U.S.

1945 - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Hirohito-Emperor Hirohito began a series of individual meetings to consider the progress of the war

1945 - Tokyo, Japan

Hirohito-The Cabinet had agreed on a Negotiated Surrender

1945 - Tokyo, Japan

The Holocaust-Death marches to camps in Germany and Austria

Jan, 1945 - Poland

Heinrich Himmler-Operation North Wind

Monday Jan 1, 1945 - Germany

Alan Turing-Working on The Design of The ACE

1945 - Hampton, London, England

Rosa Parks-Rosa succeeded in registering to Vote

1945 - U.S.

Igor Stravinsky-Stravinsky became a Naturalized United States Citizen

1945 - West Hollywood, California, U.S.

Nuclear Power-Little Boy

1945 - U.S.

Charles de Gaulle-Winston Churchill made his first visit to France since the liberation

1945 - Paris, France

Martin Bormann-Hitler Transferred His Headquarters To The Führerbunker

Tuesday Jan 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Pope John Paul II-Germans fled the City

Wednesday Jan 17, 1945 - Karkow, Poland

Harry S. Truman-A Vice President

Saturday Jan 20, 1945 - U.S.

Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels noted in his diary millions of Germans were fleeing westward

Sunday Jan 21, 1945 - Germany

Max Planck-Erwin (His son) was hanged

Tuesday Jan 23, 1945 - Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Germany

Heinrich Himmler-Commander of the Hastily formed Army Group Vistula

Thursday Jan 25, 1945 - Pomerania, Poland

The Holocaust-Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets

Saturday Jan 27, 1945 - Poland

Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels and his wife discussed suicide

Saturday Jan 27, 1945 - Germany

Winston Churchill-Malta Conference

Tuesday Jan 30, 1945 - Malta

Hirohito-The First Private audience with The Emperor

Feb, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan

Heinrich Himmler-Planning secret Peace Negotiation

1945 - Germany

World War II-Vistula–Oder Offensive ended

Friday Feb 2, 1945 - Poland and Eastern Germany

Queen Elizabeth II-Elizabeth appointed as an honorary second subaltern

Feb, 1945 - London, United Kingdom

World War II-Yalta Conference

Sunday Feb 4, 1945 - Yalta, Crimea, U.S.S.R.

Winston Churchill-Yalta Conference

Sunday Feb 4, 1945 - Yalta, Crimea

Bob Marley-Born

Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 - Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica

Benito Mussolini-The Porzûs massacre

Wednesday Feb 7, 1945 at 08:38:00 PM - Italy

Winston Churchill-Bombing of Dresden

Tuesday Feb 13, 1945 - Dresden, Germany

World War II-Fall of Budapest

Tuesday Feb 13, 1945 - Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary

World War II-Gothic Line

Mar, 1945 - Northern Italy

John F. Kennedy-Kennedy Retired

Thursday Mar 1, 1945 - U.S.

World War II-U.S. forces recaptured Manila

Mar, 1945 - Manila, Philippines

Josip Broz Tito-The provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (Demokratska Federativna Jugoslavija, DFY) was assembled in Belgrade

Wednesday Mar 7, 1945 - Serbia (Yugoslavia)

World War II-The Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine

Thursday Mar 8, 1945 - France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Germany

World War II-Bombing of Tokyo

Thursday Mar 8, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan

First Indochina War-The Second French Indochina Campaign

Friday Mar 9, 1945 - French Indochina (Now Vietnam)

Penicillin-Australia was the first country to make the drug available for civilian use

Thursday Mar 15, 1945 - Australia

Edward VIII-Resignation

Friday Mar 16, 1945 - Nassau, Bahamas

Itzak Stern-Marriage

1945 - Poland

Winston Churchill-Churchill decided to restrict area bombing and sent a memorandum to General Ismay

Wednesday Mar 28, 1945 - United Kingdom

World War II-Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan

Mar, 1945 - Northern Burma and Western Yunnan, China

World War II-Upper Silesian Offensive

Saturday Mar 31, 1945 - Upper Silesia, Germany

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-Gandhi's letter to Birla

Apr, 1945 - India

Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Separation and reunion

1945 - Germany

Ho Chi Minh-Ho met with the OSS agent Archimedes Patti

Apr, 1945 - Vietnam

Hirohito-The Soviet Union issued notice that it would not renew its neutrality agreement

Apr, 1945 - Moscow, Russia (then Soviet Union)

World War II-East Pomeranian Offensive

Wednesday Apr 4, 1945 - Pomerania, Danzig-West Prussia inside Germany

Second Sino-Japanese War-Battle of West Hunan

Friday Apr 6, 1945 - Zhijiang, Huaihua, Hunan, China

Penicillin-Florey and Chain shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine

1945 - Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

World War II-Fall of Königsberg

Sunday Apr 8, 1945 - Königsberg, East Prussia (Present Day Kaliningrad, Russia)

The Holocaust-Buchenwald was liberated

Wednesday Apr 11, 1945 - Weimar, Germany

Harry S. Truman-A President

Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.

Harry S. Truman-Truman's brief vice-presidency was relatively uneventful

Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.

Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels knew how to play on Hitler's fantasies

Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - Germany

World War II-Roosevelt death

Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.

Franklin D. Roosevelt-Death

Thursday Apr 12, 1945 at 03:35:00 PM - Warm Springs, Georgia, U.S.

Charles de Gaulle-Roosevelt died

Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.

World War II-Operation Spring Awakening - Last German major offensive

Sunday Apr 15, 1945 - Lake Balaton, Kingdom of Hungary

The Holocaust-Bergen-Belsen was liberated

Sunday Apr 15, 1945 - Germany

Martin Bormann-The Battle of Berlin

Monday Apr 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

World War II-Fall of Berlin

Monday Apr 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

World War II-Ruhr Pocket

Wednesday Apr 18, 1945 - Ruhr Area, Germany

Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels burned his private papers

Wednesday Apr 18, 1945 - Germany

World War II-Air raids on Japan

Wednesday Apr 18, 1945 - Japan

The Holocaust-Belsen report "Victims of The Holocaust on Belsen"

Thursday Apr 19, 1945 - United Kingdom

Martin Bormann-The Red Army started to Encircle Berlin

Thursday Apr 19, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Adolf Hitler-Last trip from the Führerbunker

Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Heinrich Himmler-Last Meeting

Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Martin Bormann-Hitler's 56th Birthday

Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Joseph Goebbels-Most of Hitler's inner circle to leave Berlin

Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Adolf Hitler-Battle of the Seelow

Saturday Apr 21, 1945 - Seelow Heights, Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany

Heinrich Himmler-Release of Jewish Concentration Camp

Saturday Apr 21, 1945 - Germany

Martin Bormann-Albert Bormann Left The Bunker complex and flew to the Obersalzberg

Monday Apr 23, 1945 - Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany

Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels made the last proclamation to the people of Berlin

Monday Apr 23, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Heinrich Himmler-Himmler met directly with Bernadotte

Monday Apr 23, 1945 - Germany

World War II-East Prussian Offensive

Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - East Prussia (Present Day in Poland)

W. E. B. Du Bois-United Nations Conference on International Organization

Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - San Francisco, California, U.S.

Martin Bormann-Gerda Bormann and the Children fled Obersalzberg for Italy

Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - Italy

Benito Mussolini-Escaping to Spain

Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - Spain

United Nations-United Nations Conference on International Organization

Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - San Francisco, California, U.S.

Heinrich Himmler-Himmler's SS representative was caught and brought back to the Führerbunker

Friday Apr 27, 1945 - Germany

Heinrich Himmler-Negotiations with the western Allies

Saturday Apr 28, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

World War II-Benito Mussolini was killed

Saturday Apr 28, 1945 - Italy

Benito Mussolini-Mussolini's death

Saturday Apr 28, 1945 - Italy

Adolf Hitler-Hitler removed Göring from all government positions

Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Adolf Hitler-Marriage

Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Martin Bormann-Bormann was Named Executor of The Estate

Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany

Heinrich Himmler-Himmler and Göring are traitors

Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Germany

Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels and Bormann were witnesses to Hitlers

Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

World War II-German forces surrender

Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany

Joseph Goebbels-Hitler married Eva Braun before his suicide

Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany