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| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1955 (July 20 1955) | Birth | Jem Finer, English musician and composer (The Pogues) | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1895 (July 20 1895) | Birth | Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (died in 1946) | |
| July 20th, 1885 (July 20 1885) | Event | The Football Association legalises professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association. | |
| July 20th, 0985 (July 20 0985) | Death | Pope Boniface VII | |
