• Time Zone: GMT-05:00
• Time Zone ID: America/New_York
• Day numbers: 232
• Week number: 34
• Leap year: 2025 is not a leap year
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for Aug 20th 2025
• Sunrise time: 06:49 am
• Sunset time: 08:25 pm
• Day length: 13h 35m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for Aug 20th 2025
• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
• Illumination: 6%
• Moon Age: 27.19 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
Holidays and National Days for August 20th 2025
August 20 in History
1619
The first group of twenty Africans is brought to Jamestown, Virginia.
1667
John Milton publishes Paradise Lost, an epic poem about the fall of Adam and Eve.
1741
Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering, commissioned by Peter the Great of Russia to find land connecting Asia and North America, discovers America.
1794
American General “Mad Anthony” Wayne defeats the Ohio Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the Northwest territory, ending Indian resistance in the area.
1847
General Winfield Scott wins the Battle of Churubusco on his drive to Mexico City.
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