July 20 15803 225997345 2008-07-16T11:14:28Z Olaf Stephanos 810566 /* Events */ simplifying wording and correcting a factual mistake (FLG was not defined as an 'evil cult' on that day, but only 3-4 months later in Jiang Zemin's speeches) {| style="float:right;" |- |{{JulyCalendar}} |- |{{ThisDateInRecentYears|Month=July|Day=20}} <!-- preserves autoscroll --> |} {{Day}} ==Events== *[[1304]] - [[Wars of Scottish Independence]]: [[Fall of Stirling Castle]] - [[Edward I of England|King Edward I of England]] takes the last rebel stronghold of the war. *[[1402]] - Ottoman-Timurid Wars: [[Battle of Ankara]] - [[Timur]], ruler of [[Timurid Empire]], defeated forces of the [[Ottoman Empire]] sultan [[Bayezid I]]. *[[1656]] - [[Sweden|Swedish]] forces under the command of King [[Charles X Gustav]] defeats the forces of the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] at the [[Battle of Warsaw (1656)|Battle of Warsaw]]. *[[1712]] - The [[Riot Act]] takes effect in [[Great Britain]]. *[[1738]] - [[North America]]: French explorer [[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]] reaches the western shore of [[Lake Michigan]]. *[[1810]] - Citizens of [[Bogotá]], [[Viceroyalty of New Granada|New Granada]] declare independence from [[Spain]]. *[[1864]] - American Civil War: [[Battle of Peachtree Creek]] - Near [[Atlanta, Georgia]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces led by [[General]] [[John Bell Hood]] unsuccessfully attack [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] [[Union Army|troops]] under [[General]] [[William T. Sherman]]. *[[1866]] - [[Austro-Prussian War]]: [[Battle of Lissa (1866)|Battle of Lissa]] - The [[Austro-Hungarian Navy|Austrian Navy]] <!-- No [[Austria-Hungary]] till 1867. -->, led by [[Admiral]] [[Wilhelm von Tegetthoff]], defeats the [[Regia Marina|Italian Navy]] near the island of [[Vis (island)|Vis]] in the [[Adriatic Sea]]. *[[1871]] - [[British Columbia]] joins the confederation of [[Canada]]. *[[1877]] - [[Riot]]ing in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] by [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]] workers is put down by the state [[militia]], resulting in nine deaths. *[[1881]] - [[Indian Wars]]:[[Sioux]] [[tribal chief|Chief]] [[Sitting Bull]] leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to [[US]] troops at [[Fort Buford]], [[North Dakota]] *[[1885]] - [[The Football Association]] legalises [[professional]]ism in [[football (soccer)|football]] under pressure from the [[British Football Association]]. *[[1894]] - The troops sent by [[Grover Cleveland]] to [[Chicago]] to end the [[Pullman Strike]] are recalled. *[[1898]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: A [[boiler]] [[explosion|exploded]] on the [[USS Iowa (BB-4)|USS ''Iowa'' (BB-4)]] off the coast of [[Santiago de Cuba]]. *[[1903]] - [[Ford]] Motor Company shipped its first car. *[[1907]] - A [[train wreck]] on the [[Pere Marquette Railroad]] near [[Salem, Michigan]] kills thirty and injures seventy more. *[[1916]] - [[World War I]]: In [[Armenia]], Russian troops capture Gumiskhanek. *[[1917]] - World War I: The [[Corfu Declaration]], which leads to the creation of the post-[[World War I|war]] [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]], is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia. *[[1918]] - World War I: [[Germany|German]] troops cross the [[Marne]]. *[[1921]] - [[Air mail]] service begins between [[New York, New York|New York City]] and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]]. * 1921 - Congresswoman [[Alice Mary Robertson]] became the first woman to preside over the [[US House of Representatives]]. *[[1922]] - The [[League of Nations]] awards mandates of [[Togoland]] to [[France]] and [[Tanganyika]] to the [[United Kingdom]]. *[[1924]] - [[Teheran]], [[Iran|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. *[[1926]] - A convention of the [[Methodism|Methodist Church]] votes to allow women to become priests. *[[1928]] - The government of [[Hungary]] issues a decree ordering [[Roma people|Gypsies]] to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians. *[[1929]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops attempt to cross the [[Amur River]] into [[Manchuria]] near [[Blagoveschensk]] as tensions mount between the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Republic of China]]. *[[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]]. * 1932 - Crowds in the capitals of [[Bolivia]] and [[Paraguay]] demand their governments declare war on the other after fighting on their border. *[[1933]] - [[Vice-Chancellor of Germany]] [[Franz von Papen]] and [[Roman Curia|Vatican]] Cardinal [[Pope Pius XII|Eugenio Pacelli]] sign a [[concordat]] on behalf of their respective nations. * 1933 - In [[London]], 500,000 march against [[anti-Semitism]]. * 1933 - [[Germany]]: Two-hundred [[Jew]]ish merchants are arrested in [[Nuremberg]] and paraded through the streets. *[[1934]] - Labor unrest in the US, as police in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]] fire upon striking [[Trucker|truck drivers]], wounding fifty; [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] police led by the mayor police fire [[tear gas]] on and club 2,000 striking [[stevedore|longshoremen]], and the [[governor of Oregon]] calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] docks. *[[1935]] - [[Switzerland]]: A [[Royal Dutch Airlines]] plane en route from [[Milan]] to [[Frankfurt]] crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. *[[1936]] - The [[Montreux Convention]] is signed in [[Montreux, Switzerland|Switzerland]], authorizing [[Turkey]] to fortify the [[Dardanelles]] and [[Bosphorus]] but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. *[[1937]] - Two black men accused of stabbing a policeman are taken by a mob from the county jail in [[Tallahassee, Florida]] and [[lynching|lynched]]. *[[1938]] - The [[US Department of Justice|Justice Department]] files suit in [[New York City]] against the [[motion picture]] industry charging violations of [[anti-trust law]]. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in [[1948]]. *[[1940]] - [[Denmark]] leaves the [[League of Nations]]. * 1940 - US President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] signs the [[Hatch Act of 1939]], limiting political activity by Federal government employees. *[[1941]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet leader]] [[Joseph Stalin]] consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the [[NKVD]] and names [[Lavrenti Beria]] its chief. *[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: [[Red Army]] troops take [[bridgehead]]s over the [[Don River, Russia|Don River]] near [[Voronezh]]. * 1942 - World War II: The first unit of the [[Women's Army Corps]] begins training in [[Des Moines, Iowa]]. *[[1943]] - World War II: American and Canadian troops conquer [[Enna]] on [[Sicily]]. *[[1944]] - World War II: [[Adolf Hitler]] survives an assassination attempt (known as the [[July 20 Plot]]) led by German Army Colonel [[Claus von Stauffenberg]]. * 1944 - World War II: American troops land on [[Guam]] near [[Apra Harbor|Port Apra]]. * 1944 - Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the [[Los Pinos|presidential palace]] in [[Mexico City]]. *[[1945]] - The [[US Congress]] approves the [[Bretton Woods system|Bretton Woods Agreement]]. *[[1946]] - World War II: The [[US Congress]]'s Pearl Harbor Committee says [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] was completely blameless for the [[Japan]]ese [[Pearl Harbor Attack|attack on Pearl Harbor]] and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces. *[[1947]] - Police in [[Myanmar|Burma]] arrest former Prime Minister [[U Saw]] and 19 others on charges of assassinating Prime Minister [[U Aung San]] and seven members of his cabinet. * 1947 - The [[Viceroy of India]] says the people of the [[Northwest Frontier Province]] overwhelmingly voted the previous day to join [[Pakistan]] rather than [[India]]. *[[1948]] - US President [[Harry S. Truman]] issues a peacetime [[military draft]] in the [[US]] amid increasing tensions with the [[Soviet Union]]. * 1948 - In [[New York City]], twelve leaders of the [[Communist Party USA]] are indicted under the [[Smith Act]] including [[William Z. Foster]] and [[Gus Hall]]. *[[1949]] - [[Israel]] and [[Syria]] sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war. *[[1950]] - [[Cold War]]: In [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], [[Harry Gold]] pleads guilty to spying for the [[Soviet Union]] by passing secrets from atomic scientist [[Klaus Fuchs]]. *[[1951]] - King [[Abdullah I of Jordan]] is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in [[Jerusalem]]. *[[1953]] - The [[United Nations Economic and Social Council]] votes to make [[UNICEF]] a permanent agency. *[[1954]] - [[Germany]]: [[Otto John]], head of [[West Germany]]'s secret service, defects to [[East Germany]]. * 1954 - At [[Geneva, Switzerland]], an [[armistice]] is signed that ends fighting in [[Vietnam]] and divides the country along the 17th [[circle of latitude|parallel]]. *[[1958]] - Twenty-six are dead in an explosion at a military base near Kokin Breg, [[Yugoslavia]]. *[[1959]] - The [[Organization for European Economic Cooperation]] admits [[Spain]]. *[[1960]] - Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) elects [[Sirimavo Bandaranaike]] Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government. * 1960 - The [[Polaris missile]] is successfully launched from a submarine, the ''[[USS George Washington (SSBN-598)|USS George Washington]]'', for the first time. * 1960 - [[Belgium]] defends its intervention in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]] to the [[United Nations Security Council]] while the government of the Congo appeals to the [[Soviet Union]] to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the [[US]] and [[France]] and the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute. * 1960 - The head of the [[Physics]] Department at the [[Technion - Israel Institute of Technology|Israel Institute of Technology]], Kurt Sitte, is arrested for [[espionage]]. *[[1961]] - [[Military of France|French military]] forces break the [[Tunisia]]n [[siege]] of [[Bizerte]]. *[[1964]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Viet Cong]] forces attack the capital of Dinh Tuong Province, [[Cai Be]], killing 11 [[South Vietnam]]ese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children). *[[1965]] - 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. * 1965 - [[Turkey|Turkish]] prime minister [[Suat Hayri Urguplu]] returns from a visit to [[Moscow]] and announces the [[Soviet Union]] will provide aid to his country. *[[1969]] - [[Apollo Program]]: ''[[Apollo 11]]'' successfully lands the first man on the [[Moon]]. * 1969 - Cease fire announced between [[Honduras]] and [[El Salvador]], 6 days after the beginning of the "[[Football War]]" * 1971 - The [[Soviet Union]] says it will support the [[People's Republic of China]]'s admission to the [[United Nations]] *[[1973]] - The [[US Senate]] passes the [[War Powers Act]]. * 1973 - Vietnam War: In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Friedheim to the [[US Senate Committee on Armed Services]], the [[US Defense Department]] admits it lied to [[US Congress]] about bombing [[Cambodia]] . * 1973 - Seventy-three government officials and military officers are charged with conspiracy to overthrow the [[Greece|Greek]] government. * 1973 - [[Palestinian|Palestianian]] [[terrorism|terrorists]] hijack a [[Japan Airlines]] jet en route from [[Amsterdam]] to [[Japan]] and force it down in [[Dubai]]. * 1973 - First coast-to-coast black-owned and operated radio network: The [[National Black Network]] (NBN) begins operations. *[[1974]] - [[Cyprus dispute#The Turkish occupation of Cyprus|Turkish occupation of Cyprus]]: Forces from [[Turkey]] invade [[Cyprus]] after a "coup d' etat", organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios. [[NATO]]'s Council praises the [[US]] and the [[United Kingdom]] for attempts to settle the dispute. [[Syria]] and [[Egypt]] put their militaries on alert. *[[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. *[[1976]] - The [[Viking 1]] lander successfully lands on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. * 1976 - Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from [[Thailand]]. *[[1977]] - [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania|Johnstown]] is hit by a [[flash flood]] that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage. * 1977 - The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] releases documents under the [[Freedom of Information Act (US)|Freedom of Information Act]] revealing it had engaged in [[mind control]] experiments. *[[1980]] - The [[United Nations Security Council]] votes 14-0 that member states should not recognise [[Jerusalem]] as the capital of [[Israel]]. *[[1982]] - [[Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings]]: The [[Provisional IRA]] detonates two [[bomb]]s in [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]] and [[Regents Park]] in central [[London]], killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses. *[[1983]] - The [[Israel]]i cabinet votes to withdraw troops from [[Beirut]] but to remain in southern [[Lebanon]]. *[[1984]] - Officials of the [[Miss America]] pageant ask [[Vanessa L. Williams|Vanessa Lynn Williams]] to quit after ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]'' published nude photos of her. *[[1985]] - The government of [[Aruba]] passes legislation to secede from the [[Netherlands Antilles]]. *[[1986]] - In [[South Africa]], police fire [[tear gas]] into a church service for families of those held under the government's emergency decrees. *[[1987]] - [[Wikisource:United Nations Security Council Resolution 598|UN Security Council Resolution 598]], condemning the [[Iran-Iraq War]] and demanding cease-fire, is unanimously adopted. *[[1989]] - [[Photographer]] [[Robert Mapplethorpe]]'s show opens at [[Washington, D.C.]]'s Project for the Arts after the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s [[Corcoran Gallery]] cancels it. * 1989 - [[Myanmar|Burma]]'s ruling junta puts opposition leader [[Daw]] [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] under house arrest. *[[1990]] - A [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] bomb explodes at the [[International Stock Exchange]] in [[London]]. *[[1992]] - [[Václav Havel]] resigns as president of [[Czechoslovakia]]. *[[1994]] - [[Israel]]'s [[Shimon Peres]] visits [[Jordan]], the highest ranking Israeli official to do so * 1994 - [[Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9]]'s Fragment Q1 hits [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. *[[1995]] - The Regents of the [[University of California]] vote to end all [[affirmative action]] in the UC system by [[1997]]. *[[1996]] - In [[Spain]], an [[ETA]] bomb at an [[airport]] kills 35 *[[1998]] - Two hundred aid workers from [[CARE International]], [[Doctors Without Borders]] and other aid groups leave [[Afghanistan]] on orders of the [[Taliban]]. *[[1999]] - [[Falun Gong]] is banned in the [[People's Republic of China]], and a large-scale [[Persecution of Falun Gong|crackdown]] against its practitioners is launched. *[[2000]] - The leaders of [[Salt Lake City]]'s [[2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal|bid]] to win the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] are indicted by a federal [[grand jury]] for [[bribery]], [[fraud]], and [[racketeering]]. * 2000 - In [[Zimbabwe]], Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade. * 2000 - Terrorist [[Ilich Ramírez Sánchez|Carlos the Jackal]] sues [[France]] in the [[European Court of Human Rights]] for allegedly torturing him. *[[2001]] - The [[London Stock Exchange]] goes public. * 2001 - [[Italy]]: The 27th Annual [[G8]] summit opens in [[Genoa]]. An Italian protester in Genoa, [[Carlo Giuliani]], is shot by police. *[[2002]] - [[South America]]: A fire in a [[discotheque]] in [[Lima, Peru]] kills over twenty-five. * 2003 - [[France]]: Sixteen people are injured after two [[bomb]]s explode outside a tax office in [[Nice]]. *[[2005]] - [[Canada]] becomes the fourth country in the world to legalise [[same-sex marriage]], after the bill [[Bill C-38|C-38]] receives its [[Royal Assent]]. ==Births== <!-- Please do not add yourself or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. --> *[[356 BC]] - [[Alexander the Great]], Macedonian king and military leader (d. [[323 BC]]) * [[810]] - [[Imam Bukhari]], Muslim scholar and compiler of ''[[Hadith]]'' (d. [[870]]) *[[1304]] - Francesco [[Petrarch]], Italian poet (d. [[1374]]) *[[1537]] - [[Arnaud d'Ossat]], French diplomat and writer (d. [[1604]]) *[[1620]] - [[Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder|Nikolaes Heinsius]], Dutch scholar (d. [[1681]]) *[[1659]] - [[Hyacinthe Rigaud]], French painter (d. [[1743]]) *[[1754]] - [[Destutt de Tracy]], French philosopher (d. [[1836]]) *[[1757]] - [[Garsevan Chavchavadze]], Georgian diplomat and politician (d. [[1811]]) *[[1774]] - [[Auguste Marmont]], French marshal (d. [[1852]]) *[[1797]] - [[Paul Edmund Strzelecki|Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki]], Polish explorer and geologist (d. [[1873]]) *[[1822]] - [[Gregor Mendel]], father of modern [[genetics]] (d. [[1884]]) *[[1838]] - [[Augustin Daly]], American playwright (d. [[1899]]) * 1838 - [[George Otto Trevelyan]], British statesman and biographer (d. [[1928]]) *[[1847]] - [[Max Liebermann]], German artist (d. [[1935]]) *[[1849]] - [[Robert Anderson Van Wyck]], Mayor of New York City (d. [[1918]]) *[[1858]] - [[Ivan Vucetic]], Croatian anthropologist (d. [[1925]]) *[[1864]] - [[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] laureate (d. [[1931]]) *[[1868]] - [[Miron Cristea]], 1st [[Patriarch of All Romania]] (d. [[1939]]) *[[1873]] - [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]], Brazilian aviator (d. [[1932]]) *[[1876]] - [[Otto Blumenthal]], German mathematician (d. [[1944]]) *[[1889]] - [[John Reith, 1st Baron Reith|John Reith]], British broadcast executive (d. [[1971]]) * 1890 - King [[George II of Greece]] (d. [[1947]]) *[[1893]] - [[George Llewelyn-Davies]], one of the 'Lost Boys' for the [[Peter Pan]] book (d. [[1915]]) *[[1895]] - [[László Moholy-Nagy]], Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. [[1946]]) *[[1897]] - [[Tadeus Reichstein]], Polish-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] laureate (d. [[1996]]) *[[1901]] - [[Heinie Manush]], American baseball player (d. [[1971]]) *[[1902]] - [[Jimmy Kennedy]], Irish composer (d. [[1984]]) *[[1909]] - [[Jean Focas]], Greco-French astronomer (d. [[1969]]) *[[1910]] - [[Vilém Tauský]], Czech conductor and composer (d. [[2004]]) *[[1918]] - [[Cindy Walker]], American singer (d. [[2006]]) *[[1919]] - Sir [[Edmund Hillary]], New Zealand mountain climber (d. [[2008]]) *[[1920]] - [[Elliot Richardson]], American politician (d. [[1999]]) *[[1922]] - [[Alan Stephenson Boyd]], American politician *[[1923]] - [[Stanisław Albinowski]], Polish economist and journalist (d. [[2005]]) *[[1924]] - [[Thomas Berger (US novelist)|Thomas Berger]], American novelist * 1924 - [[Mort Garson]], Canadian composer *[[1925]] - [[Jacques Delors]], French [[President of the European Commission]] * 1925 - [[Frantz Fanon]], West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d. [[1961]]) *[[1926]] - [[Lola Albright]], American actress * 1926 - [[Patricia Cutts]], English actress (d. [[1974]]) *[[1929]] - [[Mike Ilitch]], American businessman, sports executive, and philanthropist * 1929 - [[Rajendra Kumar]], Indian actor (d. [[1999]]) *[[1930]] - [[Chuck Daly]], American basketball coach * 1930 - [[Sally Ann Howes]], English-born singer and actress *[[1932]] - [[Nam June Paik]], Korean-born artist (d. [[2006]]) * 1932 - [[Otto Schily]], German politician *[[1933]] - [[Buddy Knox]], American singer and songwriter (d. [[1999]]) * 1933 - [[Cormac McCarthy]], American author * 1933 - [[Rex Williams]], English snooker player *[[1934]] - [[Uwe Johnson]], German writer * 1934 - [[Aliki Vougiouklaki]], Greek actress (d. [[1996]]) *[[1935]] - [[Ted Rogers (comedian)|Ted Rogers]], English comedian (d. [[2001]]) *[[1936]] - [[Barbara Mikulski]], U.S. Senator from Maryland *[[1937]] - [[Ken Ogata]], Japanese actor *[[1938]] - [[Roger Hunt]], English footballer * 1938 - Dame [[Diana Rigg]], English actress * 1938 - [[Natalie Wood]], American actress (d. [[1981]]) *[[1939]] - [[Judy Chicago]], American artist *[[1940]] - [[Tony Oliva]], Cuban baseball player *[[1941]] - [[Kurt Raab]], German actor (d. [[1988]]) *[[1942]] - [[Ron Bowden]], Australian politician * 1942 - [[Pete Hamilton]], American race car driver *[[1943]] - [[Wendy Richard]], English actress *[[1945]] - [[Kim Carnes]], American singer and songwriter * 1945 - [[Larry Craig]], American politician (U.S Senator from [[Idaho]]) * 1945 - [[John Lodge (musician)|John Lodge]], English musician ([[The Moody Blues]]) * 1945 - [[Johnny Loughrey]], Irish singer (d. [[2005]]) * 1945 - [[Bo Rein]], American football coach (d. [[1980]]) *[[1946]] - [[Randal Kleiser]], American film director *[[1947]] - [[Gerd Binnig]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]] * 1947 - [[Carlos Santana]], Mexican-born American guitarist *[[1948]] - [[Muse Watson]], American actor *[[1950]] - [[Tantoo Cardinal]], Canadian actress * 1950 - [[Naseeruddin Shah]], Indian actor *[[1951]] - [[Jeff Rawle]], English actor *[[1952]] - [[Keiko Matsuzaka]], Japanese actress *[[1953]] - [[Thomas Friedman]], American journalist * 1953 - [[Marcia Hines]], American-born Australian singer *[[1954]] - [[Moira Harris]], American actress *[[1955]] - [[Jem Finer]], English musician and composer ([[The Pogues]]) *[[1956]] - [[Paul Cook]], English musician ([[The Sex Pistols]]) * 1956 - [[Jim Prentice]], Canadian politician *[[1957]] - [[Nancy Cruzan]], American figure in right-to-die case (d. [[1990]]) * 1957 - [[Donna Dixon]], American actress *[[1958]] - [[Mick MacNeil]], ex-keyboardist with Simple Minds *[[1962]] - [[Carlos Alazraqui]], American actor and comedian * 1962 - [[Lee Harris (musician)|Lee Harris]], English drummer ([[Talk Talk]], [[.O.rang]]) *[[1963]] - [[Frank Whaley]], American actor *[[1964]] - [[Chris Cornell]], American musician [[Soundgarden]]/[[Audioslave]] * 1964 - [[Terri Irwin]], American television personality and wife of Steve Irwin. * 1964 - [[Kool G Rap]], American musician * 1964 - [[Bernd Schneider (racecar driver)|Bernd Schneider]], German race car deriver * 1964 - [[Dean Winters]], American actor *[[1966]] - [[Stone Gossard]], American musician *[[1967]] - [[Reed Diamond]], American actor *[[1968]] - [[Michael Park (actor)|Michael Park]], American actor * 1968 - [[Jimmy Carson]], American ice hockey player * 1968 - [[Julian Rhind-Tutt]], English actor *[[1969]] - [[Josh Holloway]], American actor * 1969 - [[Giovanni Lombardi]], Italian cyclist * 1969 - [[Tobi Vail]], American musician ([[Bikini Kill]], [[The Go Team]], [[The Frumpies]]) * 1969 - [[Colleen Fitzpatrick|Vitamin C]], American singer *[[1971]] - [[Charles Johnson (baseball)|Charles Johnson]], American baseball player * 1971 - [[Sandra Oh]], Korean Canadian actress * 1971 - [[DJ Screw]], American hiphop DJ (d. [[2000]]) *[[1972]] - [[Erik Ullenhag]], Swedish jurist and politician *[[1973]] - [[Peter Forsberg]], Swedish ice hockey player * 1973 - [[Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway]] * 1973 - [[Claudio Reyna]], American soccer player * 1973 - [[Mads Rieper]], Danish footballer * 1973 - [[Courtney Taylor-Taylor]], American singer ''([[The Dandy Warhols]])'' *[[1974]] - [[Bengie Molina]], Puerto Rican baseball player * 1974 - [[Simon Rex]], American actor *[[1975]] - [[Ray Allen]], American basketball player * 1975 - [[Judy Greer]], American actress * 1975 - [[Erik Hagen]], Norwegian footballer * 1975 - [[Birgitta Ohlsson]], Swedish politician *[[1976]] - [[Erica Hill]], American news anchor * 1976 - [[Andrew Stockdale]], Australian musician ([[Wolfmother]]) * 1976 - [[Alex Yoong]], Malaysian racing driver *[[1977]] - [[Kiki Musampa]], Congolese footballer * 1977 - [[Alessandro dos Santos]], Brazilian-born Japanese footballer *[[1978]] - [[Pavel Datsyuk]], Russian ice hockey player * 1978 - [[Charlie Korsmo]], American actor * 1978 - [[Tamsyn Lewis]], Australian athlete * 1978 - [[Will Solomon]], American basketball player * 1978 - [[Elliott Yamin]], ''[[American Idol]]'' contestant *[[1979]] - [[Miklos Feher]], Hungarian football player (d. [[2004]]) * 1979 - [[Claudine Barretto]], Filipino actress * 1979 - [[David Ortega]], Spanish [[Freestyle swimming|freestyle]] and [[backstroke]] swimmer *[[1980]] - [[Gisele Bündchen]], Brazilian model * 1980 - [[Mike Kennerty]], American guitarist ([[The All-American Rejects]]) *[[1981]] - [[Thorsten Engelmann]], German rower * 1981 - [[Damien Delaney]]. Irish footballer *[[1982]] - [[Percy Daggs III]], American actor *[[1984]] - [[Alexi Casilla]], Dominican baseball player * 1984 - [[Troy Smith]], American football player *[[1985]] - [[John Francis Daley]], American actor *[[1988]] - [[Julianne Hough]], American ballroom dancer; actress; singer *[[1991]] - [[William Tomlin]], British actor *[[1997]] - [[Billi Bruno]], American actress *[[1999]] - [[Princess Alexandra of Hanover]], daughter of [[Princess Caroline of Monaco]] <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence. If there are multiple people in the same birth year, put them in alphabetical order. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. --> == Deaths == * [[985]] - [[Pope Boniface VII]] * [[1031]] - King [[Robert II of France]] (b. [[972]]) * [[1156]] - [[Emperor Toba]] of Japan (b. [[1103]]) *[[1160]] - [[Peter Lombard]], French theologian *[[1320]] - King [[Oshin of Armenia]] (b. [[1282]]) *[[1351]] - [[Margaretha Ebner]], German visionary (b. [[1291]]) * [[1387]] - [[Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu]] (poisoned) (b. [[1356]]) * [[1398]] - [[Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March]], heir to the throne of England (b. [[1374]]) * [[1453]] - [[Enguerrand de Monstrelet]], French chronicler * [[1454]] - King [[John II of Castile]] (b. [[1405]]) * [[1524]] - [[Claude of France]], wife of [[Louis XII of France]] (b. [[1499]]) * [[1616]] - [[Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone]], English soldier * [[1704]] - [[Peregrine White]], first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. [[1620]]) *[[1752]] - [[Johann Christoph Pepusch]], German composer (b. [[1667]]) *[[1816]] - [[Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin]], Russian poet (b. [[1743]]) *[[1866]] - [[Bernhard Riemann]], German mathematician (b. [[1826]]) *[[1897]] - [[Jean Ingelow]], English poet (b. [[1820]]) *[[1901]] - [[William Cosmo Monkhouse]], English poet and critic (b. [[1840]]) *[[1903]] - [[Pope Leo XIII]] (b. [[1810]]) *[[1908]] - [[Demetrius Vikelas]], Greek author, president of the [[International Olympic Committee]] (b. [[1835]]) *[[1922]] - [[Andrey Markov]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1856]]) *[[1926]] - [[Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy]], head of the Soviet secret police (b. [[1877]]) *[[1927]] - King [[Ferdinand of Romania]] (b. [[1865]]) *[[1928]] - [[Kostas Karyotakis]], Greek poet (b. [[1896]]) *[[1932]] - [[René Bazin]], French novelist (b. [[1853]]) *[[1937]] - [[Guglielmo Marconi]], Italian inventor, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (b. [[1874]]) *[[1941]] - [[Lew Fields]], American vaudeville performer (b. [[1867]]) *[[1944]] - [[Mildred Harris]], American actress (b. [[1901]]) *[[1945]] - [[Paul Valéry]], French author and poet (b. [[1871]]) *[[1951]] - King [[Abdullah I of Jordan]] (b. [[1882]]) * 1951 - [[Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern]], Crown Prince of Germany (b. [[1882]]) *[[1953]] - [[Dumarsaid Estime]], [[President of Haiti]] (b. [[1900]]) * 1953 - [[Jan Struther]], British author (b. [[1901]]) *[[1956]] - [[James Alexander Calder]], Canadian politician (b. [[1868]]) *[[1959]] - [[William D. Leahy]], American admiral (b. [[1875]]) *[[1969]] - [[Roy Hamilton]], American singer (b. [[1929]]) *[[1970]] - [[Iain Macleod]], Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (b. [[1913]]) *[[1973]] - [[Bruce Lee]], American actor and martial artist (b. [[1940]]) * 1973 - [[Robert Smithson]], American land artist (b. [[1938]]) *[[1977]] - [[Gary Kellgren]], American music producer (b. [[1939]]) *[[1982]] - [[Okot p'Bitek]], Ugandan poet (b. [[1931]]) *[[1983]] - [[Frank Reynolds]], American television news anchor (b. [[1923]]) *[[1987]] - [[Richard Egan (actor)|Richard Egan]], American actor (b. [[1921]]) *[[1990]] - [[Herbert Jenkins]], Atlanta's longest serving [[police chief]] (b. [[1907]]) *[[1993]] - [[Vincent Foster Jr.]], White House deputy counsel (b. [[1945]]) *[[1999]] - [[Sandra Gould]], American actress (b. [[1916]]) *[[2000]] - [[Gregory Hill (writer)|Gregory Hill]] (also known as [[Malaclypse the Younger]],) American writer (b. [[1941]]) *[[2003]] - [[Nicolas Freeling]], English writer (b. [[1927]]) *[[2004]] - [[Lala Mara|Adi Lady Lala Mara]], Fiji chieftainess, wife of [[Kamisese Mara]] (b. [[1931]]) *[[2005]] - [[James Doohan]], Canadian-born actor (b. [[1920]]) * 2005 - [[Finn Gustavsen]], Norwegian politician (b. [[1926]]) * 2005 - [[Kayo Hatta]], American film director (b. [[1958]]) *[[2006]] - [[Ted Grant]], British Trotskyist (b. [[1913]]) * 2006 - [[Gérard Oury]], French filmmaker (b. [[1919]]) *[[2007]] - [[Tammy Faye|Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker)]], American televangelist (b. [[1942]]) <!-- Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence. --> ==Holidays and observances== *[[Argentina]] - [[Día del Amigo]] (Friendship Day) *[[Colombia]] - [[Independence Day]] *[[Elijah|St. Elias]], [[Prophet]] *[[Saint Aurelius|St. Aurelius]], [[bishop of Carthage]] *[[Saint Thorlac]], bishop, confessor (Translation), Norway *[[Saint Margaret of Antioch|St. Margaret of Antioch]] *[[Saint Margaret the Virgin|St. Margaret the Virgin]] ==External links== * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20 BBC: On This Day] * {{NYT On this day|month=07|day=20}} * [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jul&day=20 On This Day in Canada] ---- {{months}} [[Category:July]] [[af:20 Julie]] [[ar:20 يوليو]] [[an:20 de chulio]] [[frp:20 j·ulyèt]] [[ast:20 de xunetu]] [[az:20 iyul]] [[be:20 ліпеня]] [[be-x-old:20 ліпеня]] [[bs:20. juli]] [[br:20 Gouere]] [[bg:20 юли]] [[ca:20 de juliol]] [[cv:Утă, 20]] [[ceb:Hulyo 20]] [[cs:20. červenec]] [[co:20 di lugliu]] [[cy:20 Gorffennaf]] [[da:20. juli]] [[de:20. 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