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20 Rabi' al-Awwal or 20 Rabi' al-Anwar or Day 20 \ 3 (the twentieth day of the third month) is the ninth and seventy-ninth day of the days of the year (or eighty if the month of Safar is completed to the thirtieth). There remain 275 or 276 days for the end of the year.

Events

* 15 AH - The Rashidun Caliph Omar bin Al-Khattab enters Jerusalem.
* 329 AH - Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Mu'taqi takes over as the Islamic caliph, he is the twenty-first caliph in the series of Abbasid caliphs.
* 955 AH - The Ottomans conquer the Iranian city of Tabriz, one of the most important cities of the Safavid state, for the fourth time, during the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, who spent several days in the city.
* 979 AH - Ottoman commander Lale Mustafa Pasha conquers the island of Cyprus after 13 months of siege and fighting. The Ottomans had transferred many Anatolian Turks to the island and settled them there, increasing its population from 120,000 at the time of conquest to 360,000 shortly after.
* 1185 AH - Russians capture the entire Crimean Peninsula and end Ottoman rule in Crimea, which lasted for 296 years. This paved the way for Russia's entry into the Black Sea, which was no longer an Ottoman closed sea.
* 1246 AH - French colonialism begins to put its hand on Islamic waqfs in Algeria, ending with the liquidation of Islamic waqfs in favor of French colonization.
* 1363 AH - Algerian nationalist Ferhat Abbas establishes the Movement of Friends of the Manifesto and Freedom, which calls for Algerian independence.
* 1365 AH - The General Committee of Egyptian Workers and Students calls for a general strike against British occupation authorities in response to the Abbaseya Bridge incident, known as Independence Day. More than one hundred thousand people participated in a demonstration that clashed with British forces in Liberation Square, where they opened fire on them. The student protesters set fire to one of the British camps, and the student revolution spread from Asyut southward and Alexandria northward. A total of 28 martyrs and 432 wounded resulted from the events. News of the events reached several Arab countries, including Syria, Sudan, Jordan, Lebanon, who announced a general strike in solidarity with Egyptian students.
* 1368 AH - Cuba recognizes Israel.
* 1376 AH - The Sevres Protocol is signed between England, France, and Israel, outlining the role of each country during the Tripartite Aggression on Egypt.
* 1424 AH - An earthquake strikes northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
* 1425 AH - Assassination of Chechen President loyal to Moscow Akhmad Kadyrov in a bombing that targeted him while he was present at a stadium in the capital Grozny. The blast also killed 32 people and injured over 46 others.
* 1432 AH - Return of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to his country after spending a period of convalescence in Morocco following surgery performed outside the kingdom.
* 1435 AH - Bombing targeting the southern district of Beirut.
* 1437 AH - A massive fire broke out at the Address Downtown Hotel in Dubai.
* 1438 AH
+ Assassination of Andrei Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Turkey, as a result of being attacked by a gunman in Ankara. The attacker said he did it in retaliation for Russia's participation in the bombing of Aleppo.
+ A person was killed and three others were injured when an attack occurred on an Islamic center in Zurich, Switzerland, followed by the suicide of the perpetrator.
* 1441 AH - Saudi Aramco offers a portion of its shares to public subscription in the Saudi stock market.

Births

* 520 AH - Ibn Rushd, Muslim Andalusian philosopher, physician, jurist, judge, astronomer, and physicist.
* 1297 AH - Ibrahim Hamrush, the 37th Sheikh of Al-Azhar.
* 1304 AH
+ Nabawiya Musa, Egyptian feminist and writer.
+ Muhammad Rashid Rida, Lebanese Islamic scholar.