August 20

Friday 20, 2004:

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

Saturday 20, 1988:

Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

Tuesday 20, 1968:

200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.

Saturday 20, 1960:

Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring independence.

Thursday 20, 1914:

World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.

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