August 20 Holidays

National Bacon Lovers Day celebrates cured pork belly — the most versatile cut in the American breakfast, now starring in everything from chocolate bars to cocktails — whose production method was developed in China approximately 3,000 years ago. National Radio Day marks August 20, 1920, when WWJ in Detroit, Michigan, became the world’s first commercially licensed radio station — an event that launched the broadcast media industry and preceded the internet as the most transformative communications technology of the 20th century. World Mosquito Day marks August 20, 1897, when British doctor Ronald Ross proved that the Anopheles mosquito carries malaria — a Nobel Prize-winning discovery that remains the foundation of malaria prevention and has saved hundreds of millions of lives. St. Stephen’s Day Hungary is Hungary’s national holiday marking August 20, 1000 CE, when the Pope crowned Stephen I as the first King of Hungary, founding the Christian Hungarian state. Cured pork, a 1920 radio signal, a mosquito revelation, and a medieval coronation.