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Events on the 20th of July in history

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20 Jul 1970 Siege of Jerusalem – Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
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20 Jul 0514 St. Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus
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20 Jul 0514 St Hormisdas begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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20 Jul 0911 Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
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20 Jul 1031 Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
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20 Jul 1189 Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy.
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20 Jul 1304 Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle – King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
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20 Jul 1402 Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara – Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
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20 Jul 1495 French Viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders
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20 Jul 1498 Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht Governor of the Netherlands
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20 Jul 1553 Prime Minister John Dudley captured in Cambridge
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20 Jul 1592 During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it.
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20 Jul 1608 Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt marries Anna Weytzen in Delft
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20 Jul 1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
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20 Jul 1619 Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
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20 Jul 1654 Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control
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20 Jul 1738 Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
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20 Jul 1749 Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"
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20 Jul 1773 Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
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20 Jul 1799 Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of five reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.
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20 Jul 1801 Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm
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20 Jul 1807 Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
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20 Jul 1808 Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
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20 Jul 1810 Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
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20 Jul 1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain
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20 Jul 1836 Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
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20 Jul 1847 German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf
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20 Jul 1849 Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield
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20 Jul 1855 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in the Netherlands
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20 Jul 1858 Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Brooklyn 22-18)
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20 Jul 1861 Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va
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20 Jul 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
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20 Jul 1864 Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
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20 Jul 1866 Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs. Italy
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20 Jul 1866 Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa – The Austrian Navy , led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
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20 Jul 1868 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
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20 Jul 1871 British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
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20 Jul 1871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province
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20 Jul 1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio
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20 Jul 1872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born
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20 Jul 1876 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
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20 Jul 1877 Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
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20 Jul 1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
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20 Jul 1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops
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20 Jul 1885 The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
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20 Jul 1890 "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing
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20 Jul 1890 Snow and hail in Calais, Maine
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20 Jul 1894 2000 Federal troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
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20 Jul 1903 The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
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20 Jul 1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
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20 Jul 1906 Brooklyn Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 2-0
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20 Jul 1910 Former Dutch Premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
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20 Jul 1911 Generals Henry Wilson / Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
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20 Jul 1911 Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
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20 Jul 1912 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
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20 Jul 1913 Turkish troop take Adrianopel and Erdine from Bulgaria
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20 Jul 1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
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20 Jul 1916 Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds
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20 Jul 1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia
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20 Jul 1917 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.
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20 Jul 1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
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20 Jul 1920 Heerenveen soccer team forms
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20 Jul 1922 The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
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20 Jul 1922 Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations
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20 Jul 1923 Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2
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20 Jul 1925 Beirut Sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
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20 Jul 1927 Lindbergh begins New York flight (Spirit of St. Louis)
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20 Jul 1930 106
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20 Jul 1932 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.
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20 Jul 1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
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20 Jul 1934 Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
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20 Jul 1934 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, Washington, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
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20 Jul 1934 118
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20 Jul 1935 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio
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20 Jul 1935 Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
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20 Jul 1936 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.
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20 Jul 1938 The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York, New York against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
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20 Jul 1938 Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
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20 Jul 1940 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in the Netherlands
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20 Jul 1940 Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed Director of Marxist
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20 Jul 1940 Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
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20 Jul 1940 California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
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20 Jul 1940 Singles record charts 1st published by Billboard-Tommy Dorsey #1
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20 Jul 1941 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
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20 Jul 1941 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
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20 Jul 1942 Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
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20 Jul 1942 Time puts Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
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20 Jul 1942 Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
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20 Jul 1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines
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20 Jul 1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island)
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20 Jul 1944 British / Canadian troops occupy Hill 67 / Ifs / Bras / Frenouville, Normandy
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20 Jul 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill flies to France to meet Montgomery
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20 Jul 1944 Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
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20 Jul 1944 Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
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20 Jul 1944 Field Marshal von Kluge consults with German Commandant at Caen
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20 Jul 1944 Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig / Dessau
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20 Jul 1944 Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
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20 Jul 1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by US air attack
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20 Jul 1944 July 20th Plot-Failed assassination attempt on Hitler
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20 Jul 1944 Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim / Eisenach
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20 Jul 1944 President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Democratic Convention
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20 Jul 1944 US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
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20 Jul 1944 World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
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20 Jul 1944 US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
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20 Jul 1944 Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life
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20 Jul 1947 1st political action of the Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra
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20 Jul 1948 Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ
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20 Jul 1948 Syngman Rhee elected President of South-Korea
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20 Jul 1948 US Communist Party Chairman William Forster arrested
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20 Jul 1949 Vasil Kolarov elected Premier of Bulgaria
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20 Jul 1949 Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
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20 Jul 1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
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20 Jul 1950 "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
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20 Jul 1950 Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
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20 Jul 1951 King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
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20 Jul 1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0)
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20 Jul 1952 Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France
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20 Jul 1953 USSR / Israel recover diplomatic relations
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20 Jul 1954 Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South
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20 Jul 1954 West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR
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20 Jul 1954 Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
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20 Jul 1954 Tennis Champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident
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20 Jul 1956 Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
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20 Jul 1956 France recognizes Tunisia's independence
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20 Jul 1956 Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs
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20 Jul 1958 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch Country Club - Pennsylvania
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20 Jul 1958 Betty Jameson / Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament
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20 Jul 1958 King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR
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20 Jul 1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female Premier of Ceylon
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20 Jul 1960 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
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20 Jul 1960 The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
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20 Jul 1960 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
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20 Jul 1960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
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20 Jul 1961 French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
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20 Jul 1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony
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20 Jul 1962 France and Tunisia recover diplomatic relations
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20 Jul 1963 17 African states and Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
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20 Jul 1963 Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
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20 Jul 1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet
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20 Jul 1964 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).
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20 Jul 1964 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
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20 Jul 1965 18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
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20 Jul 1965 New York Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
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20 Jul 1967 Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes
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20 Jul 1967 Race riots in Memphis, Tennessee
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20 Jul 1968 The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
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20 Jul 1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
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20 Jul 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open
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20 Jul 1969 Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France
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20 Jul 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon later that day (Eastern Time Zone).
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20 Jul 1969 A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
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20 Jul 1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
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20 Jul 1970 Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks
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20 Jul 1970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
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20 Jul 1970 LA Angel Bill Singer no-hits Phillies, 5-0
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20 Jul 1973 Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
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20 Jul 1974 Heng Yo and Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage
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20 Jul 1974 Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
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20 Jul 1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
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20 Jul 1976 Hank Aaron hits 755th and last home run off Angels Jerry Augustine
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20 Jul 1976 Last US troops leave Thailand
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20 Jul 1976 The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
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20 Jul 1976 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
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20 Jul 1977 The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
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20 Jul 1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage
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20 Jul 1979 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Washington
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20 Jul 1980 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane
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20 Jul 1980 Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France
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20 Jul 1980 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
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20 Jul 1981 England set for innings loss vs. Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls
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20 Jul 1981 Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe
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20 Jul 1982 IRA bomb attacks in London
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20 Jul 1982 T Macauly and D Vosburghs musical "Windy City, " premieres in London
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20 Jul 1982 Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
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20 Jul 1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks
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20 Jul 1984 Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
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20 Jul 1984 Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
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20 Jul 1985 The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
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20 Jul 1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
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20 Jul 1986 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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20 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly ties 1st base majors fielding record with 22 put-outs
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20 Jul 1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
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20 Jul 1989 Burma government puts Author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
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20 Jul 1989 Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
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20 Jul 1989 93
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20 Jul 1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years
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20 Jul 1991 Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate New York
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20 Jul 1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
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20 Jul 1992 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane
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20 Jul 1992 Round World Air Race begins in Paris
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20 Jul 1992 Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
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20 Jul 1993 Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium
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20 Jul 1993 Joe Petruzzi files for divorce from Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever)
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20 Jul 1994 Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)
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20 Jul 1996 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia
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20 Jul 1997 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon
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20 Jul 1997 American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272
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20 Jul 1997 Burnet Senior Golf Classic
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20 Jul 1997 Michele Redman wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Classic
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20 Jul 1997 The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
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20 Jul 1999 The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
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