What day of the week was August 20, 1940?

The day of the week August 20th, 1940 fell on was a Tuesday.

Rubén Hinojosa the American politician was born on 20 August in 1940. As was Rex Sellers the Indian-Australian cricketer .

In Mexico City the Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches the containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".