Amy Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut with a supporting part in the 1999 satire Drop Dead Gorgeous, and her first major role was in Steven Spielberg's 2002 biopic Catch Me If You Can. After a breakthrough role as a loquacious pregnant woman in Junebug (2005), her first major success as a leading lady was in the 2007 musical Enchanted, in which she played a cheerful Disney Princess. She went on to play naive, optimistic women in a series of films. She played stronger female parts to positive reviews in The Fighter (2010) and The Master (2012), and in 2013 she began portraying Lois Lane in superhero films set in the DC Extended Universe. She won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for playing a seductive con artist in American Hustle (2013) and Margaret Keane in Big Eyes (2014). Further acclaim came for playing a linguist in the science fiction film Arrival (2016) and a self-harming reporter in the miniseries Sharp Objects (2018). (Full article...)

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Romani flag

• ... that the flag of the Romani people (pictured) was a triband, before the red stripe was removed over suspicions that it stood for communism?
• ... that Sir Cusack Patrick Roney was knighted for his role as secretary to the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853?
• ... that penis worms very similar to Priapulus caudatus created trace fossils in the early Cambrian period?
• ... that minutes after a world record was set for Super Mario World, SethBling completed a faster run, validating a technique used previously only on an emulator?
• ... that Narmakosh, compiled by Narmad, is the first monolingual dictionary of the Gujarati language?
• ... that video artist Joan Braderman superimposed herself onto scenes from the television series Dynasty to critique the characters, plots, and themes?
• ... that if the Green Bay Packers football team, with an estimated value of $2.55 billion, was ever sold, all the profits would go to its charitable foundation rather than its shareholders?
• ... that opera singer Catherine-Nicole Lemaure was imprisoned overnight for refusing to perform?

Kofi Annan

• Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (pictured) dies at the age of 80.
• The Asian Games open in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.
• Former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee dies at the age of 93.
• American soul singer and songwriter Aretha Franklin dies at the age of 76.
• In Afghanistan, hundreds are killed as the Taliban seize most of the strategic city of Ghazni for four days.
• A portion of the Ponte Morandi motorway bridge in Genoa, Italy, collapses, killing at least 41 people.

August 20: Day of Arafah (Islam, 2018); Day of Restoration of Independence in Estonia (1991); St. Stephen's Day in Hungary

Yellowstone fires

• 636 – Rashidun forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid took control of Syria and Palestine in the Battle of Yarmouk, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests after the death of Muhammad.
• 1710 – War of the Spanish Succession: The Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay was soundly defeated by a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg.
• 1909 – Pluto was photographed for the first time at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 15 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
• 1950 – Korean War: United Nations forces repelled an attempt by North Korea to capture the city of Taegu.
• 1988 – Fires (pictured) in the United States' Yellowstone National Park destroyed more than 150,000 acres (610 km²), the single-worst day of the conflagration.

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