Laziness is considered the engine of progress. It is human nature to make life easier for oneself in order to save effort in order to achieve results in any field of activity. The reluctance to climb stairs led to the invention of the excavator, walking - the bicycle, washing diapers - Pampers disposable diapers.

The boxes were used for fun; their melodies delighted the ears of adults and children. Rare items found on the antique market include musical mirrors and snuff boxes, cigarette holders and inkwells. A mechanism for playing melodies, hidden in a drawer, was wound up at night for children, helping them fall asleep.

The hero of the book “Gena the Crocodile and His Friends,” written by Eduard Uspensky, became the idol of several generations of children. The creator of the character named Cheburashka's date of birth at a meeting with orphans in 2005. Since then, every year on August 20, the birth of an animal unknown to science, living in hot and humid tropical forests, has been celebrated.

With the onset of summer, hordes of blood-sucking insects are activated, for which humans become a desired target. If you find a tick on yourself or become a delicacy for gadflies, fleas, horseflies, mainly summer residents and lovers of hiking in impenetrable forest thickets, then mosquitoes will find you everywhere.

Russian Air Fleet Day

Holidays of Belarus - Air Force Day

Sports Day in Kazakhstan

Catholic Feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

The illusory world, which with the help of 3D creates the effect of reality of what is happening on a smartphone or computer, is called virtual. To simulate it, software and special sensory devices are used that affect the organs of smell, touch, vision and hearing. A holiday was invented in honor of the artificially created environment using computer technology.

Estonia's Restoration of Independence Day (Taasiseseisvumispaev)

Saint Stephen's Day in Hungary

The name of this day is associated with the names of Marin of Caesarea, Pimenov the Many-Sick and the Faster. On August 20, people continued to prepare for autumn. The most beautiful tradition of this holiday is seeing off the cranes flying south. The women were waiting for the storks that day. Seeing them, they made their deepest wish - to conceive and bear a healthy child.

Baha'i Holidays - Feast of the Nineteenth Day of the Month of Asma

Orthodox holidays on August 20:

Memorial Day of St. Anthony of Optina

Memorial Day of the Venerable Martyr Dometius the Persian

Discovery of the relics of St. Mitrofan, the first Bishop of Voronezh