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Movie events on the 20th August
Benjamin Harrison is born. (North Bend, Ohio) (Stars and Stripes Forever )
Horace Greeley's "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" is published. (Gangs of New York)
Papa Justify records the voodoo spell Conjure of Sacrifice onto an LP. (New Orleans) (The Skeleton Key)
Jacqueline Susann is born. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (Isn't She Great)
After wandering the world for 10 years, taking odd newspaper jobs in Calcutta, London, Paris and Melbourne, Sam Preston decides it's time to return to the family he abandoned in Silvertown, Colorado. (Shanghai, China) (Mary Jane's Pa)
Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded. (Mexico City) (The Assassination of Trotsky)
Irene, future mother of Raimunda and Sole, is born. (Volver)
Sandra Dee ends her contract with Universal. (Beyond the Sea )
Police are dispatched to a remote farmhouse in Travis County where they find the butchered remains of 33 victims, killed by Leatherface. (Travis County, Texas) (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003))