Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/August 20

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  • August 20:
  • 1914 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
  • 1940 - In Mexico City exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramon Mercader. Dies next day.
  • 1948 – Robert Plant, British Musician (Led Zeppelin), is born.
  • 1953 - The Soviet Union publicly acknowledges that it had tested a hydrogen bomb in 1913.
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