July 20

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 20. From 1900 until now. July 20 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Gisele Bündchen (1980), Natalie Wood (1938) and Chris Cornell (1964). Several movies were released around July 20 over the years, such as The Message in 1976 directed by Moustapha Akkad and Castle in the Sky in 1986 directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
But much more happened on July 20 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

St. Jerome Aemiliani
St. Rufina
St. Flavian
St. Justa
St. Margaret of Antioch
St. Sabinus
St. Joseph of Barsabas
Brazil - Friendship Day
St. Ceslas
Argentina - Dfa del Amigo (Friendship Day)
Japan - Marine Day (Umi-no-hi, currently it falls on the third Monday in July.)
Northern Cyprus - Peace and Freedom Day
Colombia - Independence Day
Feast day for at least seventeen saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Saint Aurelius
St. Wulmar/Ulmar
St. Severa1
St. Barhadbesciabas
St. Severa2
St. Wilgefortis
International chess day
St. John of Pulsano
St. Margaret
St. Paul of St. Zoilus.
St. Elias
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Events

2019 List of highest-grossing films: The Walt Disney Company reports that Avengers: Endgame has surpassed Avatar as the highest grossing movie of all time, unadjusted for inflation. (CNN)
2018 2018 Gaza border protests: The Israel Defense Forces engage in a gunfight with Hamas' military wing after an Israeli soldier is killed by a Palestinian sniper; four Hamas members are killed. Israel responds to the incident with strikes on Hamas targets across Gaza. (BBC) (The New York Times)Three rockets are fired at Israeli communities from Gaza. Two of them are intercepted by the Iron Dome. (CNN)
2017 Syrian Civil War: Syrian rebels, who have benefited from the "covert" CIA military aid program, say they have not been officially informed of the U.S. decision to stop this aid, and add that its full impact depends on whether U.S. allies Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey continue to support their fight. A Free Syrian Army commander warns this decision risks triggering the collapse of the moderate opposition. (Reuters)
2016 Ukrainian crisis: Prominent Ukrainian-based journalist Pavel Sheremet of the Ukrayinska Pravda is killed in a car bombing in Kiev. (The Guardian)
2015 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): In a friendly fire incident, a NATO air strike hits an Afghan National Army outpost in Logar Province, about 30 miles east of Kabul, with at least seven soldiers killed and five wounded. (CNN) (The Independent - UK)
2014 Post-civil war violence in Libya: Islamist militia renew their attack on Tripoli International Airport. (Sky News Australia)
2013 American veteran journalist Helen Thomas, who covered the White House for nearly five decades, dies at 92. (BBC)
2012 Syrian uprising (2011–present):
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: Troops surround the Harasta suburb of the capital Damascus. (Al Jazeera)
2010 Navi Pillay states that Kyrgyzstan is detaining hundreds of people and using torture on some of them during the ongoing crisis. (BBC) (Arab News) (France24) (Reuters)
2009 Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, pleads guilty in an Indian court, ending months of denials. (Associated Press) (The Times of India)
2008 Golfer Pádraig Harrington of Ireland wins his second successive Open Championship (British Open). (AP via Google News)
2007 The President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva orders an inquiry into the crash of TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054. (CNN)
2006 Ethiopian troops enter Somalian territory.
2005 Police in Pakistan have detained about 200 suspected Islamist extremists in a series of raids on religious schools, mosques and other properties. (BBC)
2004 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals releases a video of gross cruelty to chickens taken at Pilgrim's Pride, one of KFC's suppliers in West Virginia. The supplier will investigate the claims. (The Independent) (FOX News)
2003 France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice.
2002 South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five.
2001 Vanessa Leggett is found in contempt by a Federal Court for refusing to release notes made for her book on the Doris Angleton murder.
2000 In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade.
1999 Apple Computer introduces the iBook portable computer. It features 12.1-inch TFT display, 300 MHz G3 processor, 4 MB ATI Rage Mobility graphics chip, CD-ROM drive, 32 MB RAM, modem, USB and 10/100Base-T Ethernet ports, 3 GB hard drive, keyboard, Mac OS 8.6, V.90 modem, AppleWorks software, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and comes in a translucent cover in tangerine or blueberry colors. Battery power lasts about six hours. Price is US$1599; weight is 6.6 pounds; size is 2 x
1998 Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban.
1997 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon
1996 In Spain, an ETA bomb at Reus Airport injures 53
1994 Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)
1993 Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium
1992 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane
1991 Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate New York
1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from the US Supreme Court after 36 years.
1989 Burma government puts Author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
1987 Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs
1986 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1984 Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
1983 The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon.
1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks
1981 England set for innings loss vs. Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls
1980 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane
1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing US$350 million damage.
1976 Last US troops leave Thailand
1975 India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship.
1974 Heng Yo and Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage
1973 Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
1971 The Soviet Union says it will support the People's Republic of China's admission to the United Nations
1970 Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks
1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV.
1967 Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes
1965 New York Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet
1963 17 African states and Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony
1961 French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female Premier of Ceylon
1959 The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain.
1958 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch Country Club - Pennsylvania
1956 Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1954 Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South
1953 USSR / Israel recover diplomatic relations
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0)
1951 King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
1950 Arthur Murray Party premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1949 Vasil Kolarov elected Premier of Bulgaria
1948 Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ
1947 1st political action of the Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra
1944 British / Canadian troops occupy Hill 67 / Ifs / Bras / Frenouville, Normandy
1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island)
1942 Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
1941 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
1940 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in the Netherlands
1938 The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City 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.
1937 The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany.
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.
1935 1st broadcast of Gang Busters on NBC-radio
1934 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record).
1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1932 Crowds in the capitals of Bolivia and Paraguay demand their governments declare war on the other after fighting on their border.
1930 106 degrees F (41 degrees C), Washington, DC (district record high).
1929 Soviet troops attempt to cross the Amur River into Manchuria near Blagoveschensk as tensions mount between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China.
1928 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.
1927 Lindbergh begins New York flight (Spirit of St. Louis)
1926 A convention of the Southern Methodist Church votes to allow women to become ministers.
1925 Beirut Sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1924 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.
1922 Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations.
1921 Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco.
1920 Heerenveen soccer team forms
1918 World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1916 Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds
1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
1913 Turkish troop take Adrianopel and Erdine from Bulgaria
1911 Generals Henry Wilson / Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
1910 Former Dutch Premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1906 Brooklyn Dodger Mal Eason no-hits Saint Louis Cardinals, 2-0.
1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X.
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