July 20

July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining.

Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
• 1940 - Billboard magazine publishes its first "Music Popularity Chart."
• 1944 - Adolf Hitler survives the July 20 Plot an assassination attempt led by Claus von Stauffenberg.
• 1969 - The first lunar landing, by Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on Apollo 11: Sea of Tranquility, Luna, 4:18pm EDT. At 10:56pm EDT, Neil Armstrong is the first person to walk on the surface of the Moon.
• 1976 - Viking 1 lander touches down on Mars.
• 1999 - Liberty Bell 7 raised from Atlantic Ocean.
• 2002 - The Disinfopedia, an encyclopedia about propaganda based on Wikipedia, is launched.

Births

• 1304 - Francesco Petrarch, poet (+ 1374)
• 1847 - Max Liebermann[?], painter and graphic artist (+ 1935)
• 1890 - Theda Bara (Theodosia Burr Goodman), actress (+ 1955)[?]
• 1894 - Errett Cord[?], automobile entrepreneur
• 1895 - László Moholy-Nagy[?], painter, photographer, sculptor (+ 1946
• 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, mountain climber
• 1920 - Elliott Richardson[?], American politician (+ 1999)
• 1928 - Pavel Kohout[?], writer
• 1932 - Otto Schily[?], politician
• 1933 - Cormac McCarthy[?], author
• 1934 - Uwe Johnson[?], writer
• 1936 - Elizabeth Dole, American politician
• 1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, inventor
• 1938 - Natalie Wood, actress: From Here to Eternity, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story
• 1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, actress
• 1945 - Kim Carnes[?], singer
• 1946 - Randal Kleiser[?], film director
• 1947 - Carlos Santana, guitarist, singer
• 1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway

Deaths

• 1031 - Robert II, king of France
• 1870 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt[?], Prix Goncourt
• 1903 - Pope Leo XIII
• 1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police
• 1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern[?], Crown Prince of Germany
• 1973 - Bruce Lee, actor and martial artist
• 1997 - John Akii-Bua Ugandan hurdler
• 1997 - Carlo Giuliani Italian activist

Holidays and observances

• Colombia - Independence Day
• Japan - Marine Day[?] (Umi-no-hi)
• Occupied North Cyprus[?] - Peace and Freedom Day

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See Also:

July 19 - July 21 - June 20 - August 20 -- listing of all days

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