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| 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, 1996 (July 20 1996) | Event | In Spain, an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35 | |
| 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, 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, 1966 (July 20 1966) | Birth | Stone Gossard, American musician | |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 1916 (July 20 1916) | Event | World War I: In Armenia, Russian troops capture Gumiskhanek. | |
| July 20th, 1876 (July 20 1876) | Birth | Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (died in 1944) | |
| 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, 1816 (July 20 1816) | Death | Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (born 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, 1616 (July 20 1616) | Death | Hugh O Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, English soldier | |
| July 20th, 1156 (July 20 1156) | Death | Emperor Toba of Japan (born in 1103) | |
| July 20th, 0356 (July 20 0356) | Birth | Alexander the Great, Macedonian king and military leader (died in 323 BC) | Alexander the Great Quotes |
