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20 Jumada al-Akhirah or 20 Jumadi II or Day 20 / 6 (the twentieth day of the sixth month) is the eighth and seventieth day after one hundred and sixty-eight days (or the ninth and seventieth day after one hundred and sixty-eight days if Rabi' al-Akhar is completed with thirty days or seventy days if Safar and Rabi' al-Akhar are each completed with thirty days) according to the Hijri calendar. There remain 186 or 187 days for the end of the year.

Events

* 791 AH - The Battle of Qusayya took place, in which Sultan Murad I defeated the Serbian army, allowing the Ottomans to control the Balkans.
* 1218 AH - Two American warships with 35 cannons attacked ships in the port of Tripoli in Libya. One of the ships (Vladivostok) that was considered the largest ship in the world at the time ran aground in the shallow waters of the port, and its crew of 300 sailors were captured. The governor of Tripoli demanded three million dollars in compensation from the United States.
* 1222 AH - The Russian Empire signed a truce with the Ottoman Empire due to its preoccupation with wars against France led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
* 1342 AH - Saad Zaghloul formed his first cabinet after winning the elections, which were held several months earlier. He won a landslide victory and secured a majority of seats in the Egyptian parliament.
* 1356 AH - French authorities in Algeria arrested the nationalist Mouloud Mammeri, leader of the Algerian People's Party.
* 1388 AH - Albania withdrew from the Warsaw Pact.
* 1400 AH - British special forces stormed the Iranian embassy in London.
* 1408 AH - The Soviet Union decided to withdraw from Afghanistan, which it had occupied for nine years, after negotiations with the Afghan government.
* 1412 AH - The Islamic Salvation Front led by Abbassi Madani won the first round of parliamentary elections held on a multiparty basis in Algeria.
* 1416 AH - Five Americans and two Indians were killed in a car bomb explosion outside a training center run by the US National Guard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A group claiming to be part of the Islamic Reform Movement demanded responsibility for the incident.
* 1426 AH
+ The Dutch-Moroccan Mohammed Boudiaf was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh after he screened his film "Submission", which showed a woman naked with laser lights projecting verses from the Quran on her body.
+ Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was released from prison after serving eleven years in an underground cell at the Ministry of Defense building, following a general amnesty law passed by the Lebanese parliament.
* 1430 AH - The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a second presidential term, and his opponent Mir Hussein Mousavi's supporters clashed with police over election results.
* 1431 AH - A massive fire broke out in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing more than 110 people and injuring around 100 others.

Births

* 18 BCE - Fatimah bint Muhammad, companion of Ali ibn Abi Talib (God be pleased with him).
* 1280 AH - Qasim Amin, Egyptian writer and thinker.
* 1298 AH - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey.
* 1320 AH - Ruhollah Khomeini, Imam and leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
* 1332 AH - Abdel Monem Abdel Raouf, one of the free officers and a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
* 1345 AH - Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Iraqi poet.
* 1358 AH - Ahmed El Hwan, Egyptian intelligence officer.