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July 20th, 2007 (July 20 2007) | Death | Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (born in 1942) | |
July 20th, 2006 (July 20 2006) | Death | Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (born in 1913) | |
July 20th, 2006 (July 20 2006) | Death | Gerard Oury, French filmmaker (born in 1919) | |
July 20th, 2005 (July 20 2005) | Event | Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent. | |
July 20th, 2005 (July 20 2005) | Death | James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (born in 1920) | |
July 20th, 2005 (July 20 2005) | Death | Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (born in 1926) | |
July 20th, 2005 (July 20 2005) | Death | Kayo Hatta, American film director (born in 1958) | |
July 20th, 2004 (July 20 2004) | Death | Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (born in 1931) | |
July 20th, 2003 (July 20 2003) | Event | France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice. | |
July 20th, 2003 (July 20 2003) | Death | Nicolas Freeling, English writer (born in 1927) | |
July 20th, 2002 (July 20 2002) | Event | South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five. | |
July 20th, 2001 (July 20 2001) | Event | The London Stock Exchange goes public. | |
July 20th, 2001 (July 20 2001) | Event | Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police. | |
July 20th, 2000 (July 20 2000) | Event | The leaders of Salt Lake City s bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering. | |
July 20th, 2000 (July 20 2000) | Event | In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade. | |
July 20th, 2000 (July 20 2000) | Event | Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him. | |
July 20th, 2000 (July 20 2000) | Death | Gregory Hill (also known as Malaclypse the Younger,) American writer (born in 1941) | |
July 20th, 1999 (July 20 1999) | Event | The practise Falun Gong is officially banned and defined as an "evil cult" (xiejiao) by the government of the People s Republic of China, and a large-scale crackdown of its practitioners is launched. | |
July 20th, 1999 (July 20 1999) | Birth | Princess Alexandra of Hanover, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco | |
July 20th, 1999 (July 20 1999) | Death | Sandra Gould, American actress (born in 1916) | |
July 20th, 1998 (July 20 1998) | Event | Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban. | |
July 20th, 1997 (July 20 1997) | Birth | Billi Bruno, American actress | |
July 20th, 1996 (July 20 1996) | Event | In Spain, an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35 | |
July 20th, 1995 (July 20 1995) | Event | The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997. | |
July 20th, 1994 (July 20 1994) | Event | Israel s Shimon Peres visits Jordan, the highest ranking Israeli official to do so | Shimon Peres Quotes |
July 20th, 1994 (July 20 1994) | Event | Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 s Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter. | |
July 20th, 1993 (July 20 1993) | Death | Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (born in 1945) | |
July 20th, 1992 (July 20 1992) | Event | Vaclav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia. | Vaclav Havel Quotes |
July 20th, 1991 (July 20 1991) | Birth | William Tomlin, British actor | |
July 20th, 1990 (July 20 1990) | Event | A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the International Stock Exchange in London. | |
July 20th, 1990 (July 20 1990) | Death | Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta s longest serving police chief (born in 1907) | |
July 20th, 1989 (July 20 1989) | Event | Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe s show opens at Washington, D.C. s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution s Corcoran Gallery cancels it. | |
July 20th, 1989 (July 20 1989) | Event | Burma s ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest. | |
July 20th, 1988 (July 20 1988) | Birth | Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer; actress; singer | Julian Quotes |
July 20th, 1987 (July 20 1987) | Event | UN Security Council Resolution 598, condemning the Iran-Iraq War and demanding cease-fire, is unanimously adopted. | |
July 20th, 1987 (July 20 1987) | Death | Richard Egan, American actor (born in 1921) | |
July 20th, 1986 (July 20 1986) | Event | In South Africa, police fire tear gas into a church service for families of those held under the government s emergency decrees. | |
July 20th, 1985 (July 20 1985) | Event | The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles. | |
July 20th, 1985 (July 20 1985) | Birth | John Francis Daley, American actor | |
July 20th, 1984 (July 20 1984) | Event | Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Lynn Williams to quit after Penthouse published nude photos of her. | |
July 20th, 1984 (July 20 1984) | Birth | Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player | |
July 20th, 1984 (July 20 1984) | Birth | Troy Smith, American football player | |
July 20th, 1983 (July 20 1983) | Event | The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon. | |
July 20th, 1983 (July 20 1983) | Death | Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (born in 1923) | |
July 20th, 1982 (July 20 1982) | Event | Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses. | |
July 20th, 1982 (July 20 1982) | Birth | Percy Daggs III, American actor | |
July 20th, 1982 (July 20 1982) | Death | Okot p Bitek, Ugandan poet (born in 1931) | |
July 20th, 1981 (July 20 1981) | Birth | Thorsten Engelmann, German rower | |
July 20th, 1981 (July 20 1981) | Birth | Damien Delaney. Irish footballer | |
July 20th, 1980 (July 20 1980) | Event | The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. | |
July 20th, 1980 (July 20 1980) | Birth | Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian model | |
July 20th, 1980 (July 20 1980) | Birth | Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects) | |
July 20th, 1979 (July 20 1979) | Birth | Miklos Feher, Hungarian football player (died in 2004) | |
July 20th, 1979 (July 20 1979) | Birth | Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress | |
July 20th, 1979 (July 20 1979) | Birth | David Ortega, Spanish freestyle and backstroke swimmer | |
July 20th, 1978 (July 20 1978) | Birth | Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player | |
July 20th, 1978 (July 20 1978) | Birth | Charlie Korsmo, American actor | |
July 20th, 1978 (July 20 1978) | Birth | Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete | |
July 20th, 1978 (July 20 1978) | Birth | Will Solomon, American basketball player | Solomon Quotes |
July 20th, 1978 (July 20 1978) | Birth | Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant | |
July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Event | Johnstown is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage. | |
July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Event | The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments. | |
July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Birth | Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer | |
July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Birth | Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer | |
July 20th, 1977 (July 20 1977) | Death | Gary Kellgren, American music producer (born in 1939) | |
July 20th, 1976 (July 20 1976) | Event | The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars. | |
July 20th, 1976 (July 20 1976) | Event | Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand. | |
July 20th, 1976 (July 20 1976) | Birth | Erica Hill, American news anchor | |
July 20th, 1976 (July 20 1976) | Birth | Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother) | |
July 20th, 1976 (July 20 1976) | Birth | Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver | |
July 20th, 1975 (July 20 1975) | Event | India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship. | |
July 20th, 1975 (July 20 1975) | Birth | Ray Allen, American basketball player | |
July 20th, 1975 (July 20 1975) | Birth | Judy Greer, American actress | |
July 20th, 1975 (July 20 1975) | Birth | Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer | |
July 20th, 1975 (July 20 1975) | Birth | Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician | |
July 20th, 1974 (July 20 1974) | Event | Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a "coup d etat", organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios. NATO s Council praises the US and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert. | |
July 20th, 1974 (July 20 1974) | Birth | Bengie Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
July 20th, 1974 (July 20 1974) | Birth | Simon Rex, American actor | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Event | The US Senate passes the War Powers Act. | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Event | Vietnam War: In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Friedheim to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, the US Defense Department admits it lied to US Congress about bombing Cambodia . | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Event | Seventy-three government officials and military officers are charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Greek government. | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Event | Palestianian terrorists hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai. | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Event | First coast-to-coast black-owned and operated radio network: The National Black Network (NBN) begins operations. | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Birth | Peter Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Birth | Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Birth | Claudio Reyna, American soccer player | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Birth | Mads Rieper, Danish footballer | |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Birth | Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American singer (The Dandy Warhols) | Andy Warhol Quotes |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Death | Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (born in 1940) | Bruce Lee Quotes |
July 20th, 1973 (July 20 1973) | Death | Robert Smithson, American land artist (born in 1938) | |
July 20th, 1972 (July 20 1972) | Birth | Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician | |
July 20th, 1971 (July 20 1971) | Event | The Soviet Union says it will support the People s Republic of China s admission to the United Nations | |
July 20th, 1971 (July 20 1971) | Birth | Charles Johnson, American baseball player | |
July 20th, 1971 (July 20 1971) | Birth | Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress | |
July 20th, 1971 (July 20 1971) | Birth | DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (died in 2000) | |
July 20th, 1970 (July 20 1970) | Death | Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (born in 1913) | |
July 20th, 1969 (July 20 1969) | Event | Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully lands the first man on the Moon. | |
July 20th, 1969 (July 20 1969) | Event | Cease fire announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the "Football War" | |
July 20th, 1969 (July 20 1969) | Birth | Josh Holloway, American actor | |
July 20th, 1969 (July 20 1969) | Birth | Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist | |
July 20th, 1969 (July 20 1969) | Birth | Tobi Vail, American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies) | |
July 20th, 1969 (July 20 1969) | Birth | Vitamin C, American singer | |
July 20th, 1969 (July 20 1969) | Death | Roy Hamilton, American singer (born in 1929) | |
July 20th, 1968 (July 20 1968) | Birth | Michael Park, American actor | |
July 20th, 1968 (July 20 1968) | Birth | Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player | |
July 20th, 1968 (July 20 1968) | Birth | Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor | Julian Quotes |
July 20th, 1967 (July 20 1967) | Birth | Reed Diamond, American actor | |
July 20th, 1966 (July 20 1966) | Birth | Stone Gossard, American musician | |
July 20th, 1965 (July 20 1965) | Event | In Hayneville, Alabama, two civil rights protesters, one a priest and the other a seminarian, are shot by a deputy sheriff. The seminarian dies of his wounds. | |
July 20th, 1965 (July 20 1965) | Event | Turkish prime minister Suat Hayri Urguplu returns from a visit to Moscow and announces the Soviet Union will provide aid to his country. | Ovid Quotes |
July 20th, 1964 (July 20 1964) | Event | Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Dinh Tuong Province, Cai Be, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children). | |
July 20th, 1964 (July 20 1964) | Birth | Chris Cornell, American musician Soundgarden/Audioslave | Chris Cornell Quotes |
July 20th, 1964 (July 20 1964) | Birth | Terri Irwin, American television personality and wife of Steve Irwin. | |
July 20th, 1964 (July 20 1964) | Birth | Kool G Rap, American musician | |
July 20th, 1964 (July 20 1964) | Birth | Bernd Schneider, German race car deriver | |
July 20th, 1964 (July 20 1964) | Birth | Dean Winters, American actor | |
July 20th, 1963 (July 20 1963) | Birth | Frank Whaley, American actor | |
July 20th, 1962 (July 20 1962) | Birth | Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian | |
July 20th, 1962 (July 20 1962) | Birth | Lee Harris, English drummer (Talk Talk, .O.rang) | Ang Lee Quotes |
July 20th, 1961 (July 20 1961) | Event | French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte. | |
July 20th, 1960 (July 20 1960) | Event | Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world s first elected female head of government. | |
July 20th, 1960 (July 20 1960) | Event | The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time. | George Washington Quotes |
July 20th, 1960 (July 20 1960) | Event | Belgium defends its intervention in the Congo to the United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the US and France and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute. | |
July 20th, 1960 (July 20 1960) | Event | The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage. | |
July 20th, 1959 (July 20 1959) | Event | The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain. | |
July 20th, 1959 (July 20 1959) | Death | William D. Leahy, American admiral (born in 1875) | |
July 20th, 1958 (July 20 1958) | Event | Twenty-six are dead in an explosion at a military base near Kokin Breg, Yugoslavia. | |
July 20th, 1958 (July 20 1958) | Birth | Mick MacNeil, ex-keyboardist with Simple Minds | |
July 20th, 1957 (July 20 1957) | Birth | Nancy Cruzan, American figure in right-to-die case (died in 1990) | |
July 20th, 1957 (July 20 1957) | Birth | Donna Dixon, American actress | |
July 20th, 1956 (July 20 1956) | Birth | Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols) | |
July 20th, 1956 (July 20 1956) | Birth | Jim Prentice, Canadian politician | |
July 20th, 1956 (July 20 1956) | Death | James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (born in 1868) | |
July 20th, 1955 (July 20 1955) | Birth | Jem Finer, English musician and composer (The Pogues) | |
July 20th, 1954 (July 20 1954) | Event | Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany s secret service, defects to East Germany. | |
July 20th, 1954 (July 20 1954) | Event | At Geneva, Switzerland, an armistice is signed that ends fighting in Vietnam and divides the country along the 17th parallel. | |
July 20th, 1954 (July 20 1954) | Birth | Moira Harris, American actress | |
July 20th, 1953 (July 20 1953) | Event | The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency. | |
July 20th, 1953 (July 20 1953) | Birth | Thomas Friedman, American journalist | |
July 20th, 1953 (July 20 1953) | Birth | Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer | |
July 20th, 1953 (July 20 1953) | Death | Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (born in 1900) | |
July 20th, 1953 (July 20 1953) | Death | Jan Struther, British author (born in 1901) | |
July 20th, 1952 (July 20 1952) | Birth | Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress | |
July 20th, 1951 (July 20 1951) | Event | King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. | |
July 20th, 1951 (July 20 1951) | Birth | Jeff Rawle, English actor | |
July 20th, 1951 (July 20 1951) | Death | King Abdullah I of Jordan (born in 1882) | |
July 20th, 1951 (July 20 1951) | Death | Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (born in 1882) | |
July 20th, 1950 (July 20 1950) | Event | Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs. | |
July 20th, 1950 (July 20 1950) | Birth | Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress | |
July 20th, 1950 (July 20 1950) | Birth | Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor | |
July 20th, 1949 (July 20 1949) | Event | Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war. | |
July 20th, 1948 (July 20 1948) | Event | US President Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime military draft in the US amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union. | Harry S. Truman Quotes |
July 20th, 1948 (July 20 1948) | Event | In New York City, twelve leaders of the Communist Party USA are indicted under the Smith Act including William Z. Foster and Gus Hall. | Will Smith Quotes |
July 20th, 1948 (July 20 1948) | Birth | Muse Watson, American actor | |
July 20th, 1947 (July 20 1947) | Event | Police in Burma arrest former Prime Minister U Saw and 19 others on charges of assassinating Prime Minister U Aung San and seven members of his cabinet. | |
July 20th, 1947 (July 20 1947) | Event | The Viceroy of India says the people of the Northwest Frontier Province overwhelmingly voted the previous day to join Pakistan rather than India. | |
July 20th, 1947 (July 20 1947) | Birth | Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate | |
July 20th, 1947 (July 20 1947) | Birth | Carlos Santana, Mexican-born American guitarist | |
July 20th, 1946 (July 20 1946) | Event | World War II: The US Congress s Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces. | |
July 20th, 1946 (July 20 1946) | Birth | Randal Kleiser, American film director | |
July 20th, 1945 (July 20 1945) | Event | The US Congress approves the Bretton Woods Agreement. | |
July 20th, 1945 (July 20 1945) | Birth | Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter | |
July 20th, 1945 (July 20 1945) | Birth | Larry Craig, American politician (U.S Senator from Idaho) | |
July 20th, 1945 (July 20 1945) | Birth | John Lodge, English musician (The Moody Blues) | |
July 20th, 1945 (July 20 1945) | Birth | Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (died in 2005) | |
July 20th, 1945 (July 20 1945) | Birth | Bo Rein, American football coach (died in 1980) | |
July 20th, 1945 (July 20 1945) | Death | Paul Valery, French author and poet (born in 1871) | Paul Valery Quotes |
July 20th, 1944 (July 20 1944) | Event | World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
July 20th, 1944 (July 20 1944) | Event | World War II: American troops land on Guam near Port Apra. | |
July 20th, 1944 (July 20 1944) | Event | Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City. | |
July 20th, 1944 (July 20 1944) | Death | Mildred Harris, American actress (born in 1901) | |
July 20th, 1943 (July 20 1943) | Event | World War II: American and Canadian troops conquer Enna on Sicily. | |
July 20th, 1943 (July 20 1943) | Birth | Wendy Richard, English actress | |
July 20th, 1942 (July 20 1942) | Event | World War II: Red Army troops take bridgeheads over the Don River near Voronezh. | |
July 20th, 1942 (July 20 1942) | Event | World War II: The first unit of the Women s Army Corps begins training in Des Moines, Iowa. | |
July 20th, 1942 (July 20 1942) | Birth | Ron Bowden, Australian politician | |
July 20th, 1942 (July 20 1942) | Birth | Pete Hamilton, American race car driver | |
July 20th, 1941 (July 20 1941) | Event | Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief. | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
July 20th, 1941 (July 20 1941) | Birth | Kurt Raab, German actor (died in 1988) | |
July 20th, 1941 (July 20 1941) | Death | Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (born in 1867) | |
July 20th, 1940 (July 20 1940) | Event | Denmark leaves the League of Nations. | |
July 20th, 1940 (July 20 1940) | Event | US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Hatch Act of 1939, limiting political activity by Federal government employees. | |
July 20th, 1940 (July 20 1940) | Birth | Tony Oliva, Cuban baseball player | |
July 20th, 1939 (July 20 1939) | Birth | Judy Chicago, American artist | Judy Chicago Quotes |
July 20th, 1938 (July 20 1938) | Event | The Justice Department files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of anti-trust law. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948. | |
July 20th, 1938 (July 20 1938) | Birth | Roger Hunt, English footballer | |
July 20th, 1938 (July 20 1938) | Birth | Dame Diana Rigg, English actress | |
July 20th, 1938 (July 20 1938) | Birth | Natalie Wood, American actress (died in 1981) | |
July 20th, 1937 (July 20 1937) | Event | Two black men accused of stabbing a policeman are taken by a mob from the county jail in Tallahassee, Florida and lynched. | |
July 20th, 1937 (July 20 1937) | Birth | Ken Ogata, Japanese actor | |
July 20th, 1937 (July 20 1937) | Death | Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (born in 1874) | Guglielmo Marconi Quotes |
July 20th, 1936 (July 20 1936) | Event | The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. | |
July 20th, 1936 (July 20 1936) | Birth | Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator from Maryland | |
July 20th, 1935 (July 20 1935) | Event | Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. | |
July 20th, 1935 (July 20 1935) | Birth | Ted Rogers, English comedian (died in 2001) | |
July 20th, 1934 (July 20 1934) | Event | Labor unrest in the US, as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, wounding fifty; Seattle police led by the mayor police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen, and the governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks. | |
July 20th, 1934 (July 20 1934) | Birth | Uwe Johnson, German writer | |
July 20th, 1934 (July 20 1934) | Birth | Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (died in 1996) | |
July 20th, 1933 (July 20 1933) | Event | Vice-Chancellor of Germany Franz von Papen and Vatican Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli sign a concordat on behalf of their respective nations. | Franz von Papen Quotes |
July 20th, 1933 (July 20 1933) | Event | In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism. | |
July 20th, 1933 (July 20 1933) | Event | Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets. | |
July 20th, 1933 (July 20 1933) | Birth | Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (died in 1999) | |
July 20th, 1933 (July 20 1933) | Birth | Cormac McCarthy, American author | |
July 20th, 1933 (July 20 1933) | Birth | Rex Williams, English snooker player | |
July 20th, 1932 (July 20 1932) | Event | In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House. | |
July 20th, 1932 (July 20 1932) | Event | Crowds in the capitals of Bolivia and Paraguay demand their governments declare war on the other after fighting on their border. | |
July 20th, 1932 (July 20 1932) | Birth | Nam June Paik, Korean-born artist (died in 2006) | |
July 20th, 1932 (July 20 1932) | Birth | Otto Schily, German politician | |
July 20th, 1932 (July 20 1932) | Death | Rene Bazin, French novelist (born in 1853) | |
July 20th, 1930 (July 20 1930) | Birth | Chuck Daly, American basketball coach | Chuck D Quotes |
July 20th, 1930 (July 20 1930) | Birth | Sally Ann Howes, English-born singer and actress | |
July 20th, 1929 (July 20 1929) | Event | Soviet troops attempt to cross the Amur River into Manchuria near Blagoveschensk as tensions mount between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China. | |
July 20th, 1929 (July 20 1929) | Birth | Mike Ilitch, American businessman, sports executive, and philanthropist | |
July 20th, 1929 (July 20 1929) | Birth | Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (died in 1999) | |
July 20th, 1928 (July 20 1928) | Event | The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians. | |
July 20th, 1928 (July 20 1928) | Death | Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (born in 1896) | |
July 20th, 1927 (July 20 1927) | Death | King Ferdinand of Romania (born in 1865) | |
July 20th, 1926 (July 20 1926) | Event | A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests. | |
July 20th, 1926 (July 20 1926) | Birth | Lola Albright, American actress | |
July 20th, 1926 (July 20 1926) | Birth | Patricia Cutts, English actress (died in 1974) | |
July 20th, 1926 (July 20 1926) | Death | Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (born in 1877) | |
July 20th, 1925 (July 20 1925) | Birth | Jacques Delors, French President of the European Commission | |
July 20th, 1925 (July 20 1925) | Birth | Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (died in 1961) | |
July 20th, 1924 (July 20 1924) | Event | Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people. | Martial Quotes |
July 20th, 1924 (July 20 1924) | Birth | Thomas Berger, American novelist | Ric Berger Quotes |
July 20th, 1924 (July 20 1924) | Birth | Mort Garson, Canadian composer | |
July 20th, 1923 (July 20 1923) | Birth | Stanislaw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (died in 2005) | |
July 20th, 1922 (July 20 1922) | Event | The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. | |
July 20th, 1922 (July 20 1922) | Birth | Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician | |
July 20th, 1922 (July 20 1922) | Death | Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (born in 1856) | |
July 20th, 1921 (July 20 1921) | Event | Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco. | |
July 20th, 1921 (July 20 1921) | Event | Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives. | |
July 20th, 1920 (July 20 1920) | Birth | Elliot Richardson, American politician (died in 1999) | |
July 20th, 1919 (July 20 1919) | Birth | Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber (died in 2008) | Edmund Hillary Quotes |
July 20th, 1918 (July 20 1918) | Event | World War I: German troops cross the Marne. | |
July 20th, 1918 (July 20 1918) | Birth | Cindy Walker, American singer (died in 2006) | |
July 20th, 1917 (July 20 1917) | Event | World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia. | |
July 20th, 1916 (July 20 1916) | Event | World War I: In Armenia, Russian troops capture Gumiskhanek. | |
July 20th, 1910 (July 20 1910) | Birth | Vilem Tausky, Czech conductor and composer (died in 2004) | |
July 20th, 1909 (July 20 1909) | Birth | Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (died in 1969) | |
July 20th, 1908 (July 20 1908) | Death | Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (born in 1835) | |
July 20th, 1907 (July 20 1907) | Event | A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more. | |
July 20th, 1903 (July 20 1903) | Event | Ford Motor Company shipped its first car. | |
July 20th, 1903 (July 20 1903) | Death | Pope Leo XIII (born in 1810) | |
July 20th, 1902 (July 20 1902) | Birth | Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (died in 1984) | |
July 20th, 1901 (July 20 1901) | Birth | Heinie Manush, American baseball player (died in 1971) | |
July 20th, 1901 (July 20 1901) | Death | William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (born in 1840) | |
July 20th, 1898 (July 20 1898) | Event | Spanish-American War: A boiler exploded on the USS Iowa (BB-4) off the coast of Santiago de Cuba. | |
July 20th, 1897 (July 20 1897) | Birth | Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (died in 1996) | |
July 20th, 1897 (July 20 1897) | Death | Jean Ingelow, English poet (born in 1820) | Jean Ingelow Quotes |
July 20th, 1895 (July 20 1895) | Birth | Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (died in 1946) | |
July 20th, 1894 (July 20 1894) | Event | The troops sent by Grover Cleveland to Chicago to end the Pullman Strike are recalled. | Grover Cleveland Quotes |
July 20th, 1893 (July 20 1893) | Birth | George Llewelyn-Davies, one of the Lost Boys for the Peter Pan book (died in 1915) | |
July 20th, 1890 (July 20 1890) | Birth | King George II of Greece (died in 1947) | |
July 20th, 1889 (July 20 1889) | Birth | John Reith, British broadcast executive (died in 1971) | |
July 20th, 1885 (July 20 1885) | Event | The Football Association legalises professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association. | |
July 20th, 1881 (July 20 1881) | Event | Indian Wars:Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to US troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota | |
July 20th, 1877 (July 20 1877) | Event | Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths. | |
July 20th, 1876 (July 20 1876) | Birth | Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (died in 1944) | |
July 20th, 1873 (July 20 1873) | Birth | Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (died in 1932) | |
July 20th, 1871 (July 20 1871) | Event | British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. | |
July 20th, 1868 (July 20 1868) | Birth | Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (died in 1939) | |
July 20th, 1866 (July 20 1866) | Event | Austro-Prussian War: Battle of LissaThe Austrian Navy , led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea. | |
July 20th, 1866 (July 20 1866) | Death | Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (born in 1826) | |
July 20th, 1864 (July 20 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree CreekNear Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman. | |
July 20th, 1864 (July 20 1864) | Birth | Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (died in 1931) | |
July 20th, 1858 (July 20 1858) | Birth | Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (died in 1925) | |
July 20th, 1849 (July 20 1849) | Birth | Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (died in 1918) | |
July 20th, 1847 (July 20 1847) | Birth | Max Liebermann, German artist (died in 1935) | |
July 20th, 1838 (July 20 1838) | Birth | Augustin Daly, American playwright (died in 1899) | |
July 20th, 1838 (July 20 1838) | Birth | George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (died in 1928) | |
July 20th, 1822 (July 20 1822) | Birth | Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics (died in 1884) | |
July 20th, 1816 (July 20 1816) | Death | Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (born in 1743) | |
July 20th, 1810 (July 20 1810) | Event | Citizens of Bogota, New Granada declare independence from Spain. | |
July 20th, 1797 (July 20 1797) | Birth | Sir Pawel Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (died in 1873) | |
July 20th, 1774 (July 20 1774) | Birth | Auguste Marmont, French marshal (died in 1852) | |
July 20th, 1757 (July 20 1757) | Birth | Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (died in 1811) | |
July 20th, 1754 (July 20 1754) | Birth | Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (died in 1836) | Philo Quotes |
July 20th, 1752 (July 20 1752) | Death | Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (born in 1667) | |
July 20th, 1738 (July 20 1738) | Event | North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Verendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. | |
July 20th, 1712 (July 20 1712) | Event | The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain. | |
July 20th, 1704 (July 20 1704) | Death | Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born in 1620) | |
July 20th, 1659 (July 20 1659) | Birth | Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (died in 1743) | |
July 20th, 1656 (July 20 1656) | Event | Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeats the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw. | |
July 20th, 1620 (July 20 1620) | Birth | Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (died in 1681) | |
July 20th, 1616 (July 20 1616) | Death | Hugh O Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, English soldier | |
July 20th, 1537 (July 20 1537) | Birth | Arnaud d Ossat, French diplomat and writer (died in 1604) | |
July 20th, 1524 (July 20 1524) | Death | Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (born in 1499) | |
July 20th, 1454 (July 20 1454) | Death | King John II of Castile (born in 1405) | |
July 20th, 1453 (July 20 1453) | Death | Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler | |
July 20th, 1402 (July 20 1402) | Event | Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of AnkaraTimur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeated forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I. | |
July 20th, 1398 (July 20 1398) | Death | Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (born in 1374) | |
July 20th, 1387 (July 20 1387) | Death | Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (born in 1356) | |
July 20th, 1351 (July 20 1351) | Death | Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (born in 1291) | |
July 20th, 1320 (July 20 1320) | Death | King Oshin of Armenia (born in 1282) | |
July 20th, 1304 (July 20 1304) | Event | Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling CastleKing Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war. | |
July 20th, 1304 (July 20 1304) | Birth | Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (died in 1374) | Petrarch Quotes |
July 20th, 1160 (July 20 1160) | Death | Peter Lombard, French theologian | |
July 20th, 1156 (July 20 1156) | Death | Emperor Toba of Japan (born in 1103) | |
July 20th, 1031 (July 20 1031) | Death | King Robert II of France (born in 972) | |
July 20th, 0985 (July 20 0985) | Death | Pope Boniface VII | |
July 20th, 0810 (July 20 0810) | Birth | Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (died in 870) | |
July 20th, 0356 (July 20 0356) | Birth | Alexander the Great, Macedonian king and military leader (died in 323 BC) | Alexander the Great Quotes |