September 20

National Gibberish Day
National Rum Punch Day
Wife Appreciation Day
Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play
Puppy Mill Awareness Day
National Punch Day
National Women's Friendship Day

Birthdays
1934 - Sophia Loren, actress
1964 - Crispin Glover, George McFly in "Back to the Future", Layne in "River's Edge", Rubin Farr in "Rubin and Ed", Andy Warhol in "The Doors"
1967 - Kristen Johnston, Sally Solomon in "3rd Rock from the Sun", Wilma Flintstone in "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas", Holly Franklin in "The Exes".

Today In History
1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1942 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
2011 – The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.