
July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ==Events== ''For a fuller list of events, click July 20/Events1 for events before 1950 and July 20/Events2 for events after 1950.'' *514 - Pope Hormisdas assumes the papacy. *1304 - Edward I of England takes the last rebel Fall of Stirling Castle in the Wars of Scottish Independence. *1738 - French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. *1810 - Colombia declares independence from Spain. *1861 - American Civil War: The Confederate Congress of the Confederate States of America begins sitting in Richmond, Virginia. *1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek - Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate States of America forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack United States troops under General William T. Sherman. *1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. *1872 - The United States Patent Office awards the first patent for wireless telegraphy to Mahlon Loomis. *1881 - Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana *1914 - Russia: Czar Nicholas II of Russia welcomes France's President Raymond Poincaré. *1917 - The Corfu Declaration, which created the post-World War I Kingdom of Yugoslavia, was signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia. *1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the provisional government and survives an assassination attempt. *1917 - In the United States, the first military draft numbers are drawn for World War I. *1920 - The funeral of Empress Eugenie of France is held in St. Michael's Abbey near Farnborough, England. *1921 - Air mail service begins between New York, New York and San Francisco, California. *1922 - The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. *1925 - In Cleveland, Tennessee, Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes Monkey Trial during a session held out of doors about the literal truth of the Bible. *1927 - Michael I of Romania becomes King at age five upon the death of his father Ferdinand I of Romania. *1932 - Germany President Paul von Hindenburg signs a decree ordering Franz von Papen to take control of the Prussia state government and declares martial law. *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. *1933 - Germany's Franz von Papen and the Vatican's Cardinal Pope Pius XII sign a concordat on behalf of their respective nations. *1933 - In the United Kingdom, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism in London. *1933 - United States: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders new regulations on the trading of grain in order to curb speculators. *1933 - In Germany, two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets. *1936 - The Montreux Convention is signed in Montreux, Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. *1940 - Denmark leaves the League of Nations. *1940 - Billboard magazine publishes its first "Music Popularity Chart"; the first number one song is Frank Sinatra's "I'll Never Smile Again". *1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill limiting political activity by Federal employees, the Hatch Act. *1941 - 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 over the Don River near Voronezh. *1943 - World War II: American and Canadian troops conquer Enna, Italy on Sicily. *1943 - World War II: Axis leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer in northern Italy *1944 - Adolf Hitler survives the July 20 Plot an assassination attempt led by Claus von Stauffenberg. *1944 - World War II: American troops land on Guam near Port Apra, Guam. *1944 - In Bombay, India, health authorities announce a cholera epidemic has killed 34,000 in three months. *1944 - The United States Democratic Party nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for a fourth term as president. *1945 - The Congress of the United States approves the Bretton Woods Agreement. *1946 - The Congress of the United States's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the Japan Pearl Harbor Attack and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces. *1947 - Pope Pius XII canonize a French saint, Blessed Louis-Marie Gregnon de Montort. *1948 - President Harry S. Truman issues the first peacetime military draft in the United States 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 - In Belgium, Politics of Belgium authorizes king Leopold III of Belgium to return from exile in Austria. *1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. *1952 - The Egypt prime minister, Hussein Sirry Pasha resigns. *1952 - The 1952 Summer Olympics begin in Helsinki, Finland. *1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency. *1954 - United States Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accepts the resignation of his aide Roy Cohn. *1957 - The Soviet Union closes Peter the Great Bay, which provides access to Vladivostok, to foreign ships. *1959 - The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain. *1960 - The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington (SSBN-598), for the first time. *1960 - In Lebanon, Saeb Salem is named Prime Minister. *1961 - The Arab League admits Kuwait to membership. *1964 - NASA successfully tests the first electric rocket engine in California. *1965 - In Greece, Elias Tsirimokos becomes prime minister. *1969 - Apollo 11 lands on the Moon and Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin become the first humans to walk on its surface. *1972 - In the Netherlands, the cabinet of Prime Minister Barend Biesheuvel resigns in a dispute over the budget. *1973 - The United States Senate passes the War Powers Act. *1973 - In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Friedheim to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, the United States Defense Department admits it lied to Congress of the United States about bombing Cambodia . *1973 - Palestinian terrorist hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai. *1973 - Indiana is found guilty of operating segregated schools by federal judge S. Hugh Dillin, who orders the state to develop a desegregation plan for Indianapolis's schools. *1974 - Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after Greek Cypriots' attempt at enosis. NATO's Council praises the United States and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert. *1976 - The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars (planet). *1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments. *1979 - Diana Nyad swims the sixty miles from the Bahamas to Florida. *1980 - Takieddih Solh is named Lebanon's new prime minister. *1980 - The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. *1980 - The United States Air Force reveals it has a stealth plane. *1981 - The United States suspends sales of F-16 fighter jets to Israel *1984 - Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Williams to quit after ''Penthouse'' published nude photos of her. *1987 - The United Nations Security Council demands a ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War. *1988 - The United States Democratic Party nominate Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts for President. *1990 - Iran Contra: All of Colonel Oliver North's convictions for perjury and other offenses are overturned by an appeals court. *1992 - In Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel resigns as president. *1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter (planet). *2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake City's 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering. *2001 - The London Stock Exchange goes public. *2002 - The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police. *2002 - The United States Senate confirms Roger L. Gregory as the first black to sit on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. *2004 - Former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger resigns as an advisor to Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign after it was revealed he stole classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration. *2004 - PETA releases a video of gross cruelty to animals to chickens taken at Pilgrim's Pride, one of KFC's suppliers in West Virginia, and the company pledged to investigate the claims. *2004 - Ahmed Qurei, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, agrees to withdraw his resignation, three days after tendering it. *2004 - Human Rights Watch releases a report stating that Sudan government documents confirm support for the Arab Janjaweed militia in their campaign of ethnic cleansing against African Muslims in Darfur. ==Births== ''For a fuller list of births, click July 20/Births.'' *1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374) *1519 - Pope Innocent IX *1754 - Destutt de Tracy, philosopher *1797 - Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Poland explorer and geologist (d. 1873) *1838 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928) *1838- Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899) *1847 - Max Liebermann, painter and graphic artist (d. 1935) *1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918) *1868 - Miron Cristea, First patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (d. 1939) *1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932) *1889 - John Reith, BBC director-general *1890 - Theda Bara (Theodosia Burr Goodman), American actress (d. 1955) * 1890 - King George II of Greece (d. 1947) *1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, painter, photographer, sculptor (d. 1946) *1897 - Clifford Braughton, American actor (d. 1979) *1901 - Heinie Manush, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1971) *1902 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984) *1918 - Cindy Walker, American country music singer *1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber *1920 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999) *1923 - Stanislaw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d.2005) *1924 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer *1924 - Thomas Berger (US novelist), American novelist *1925 - Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission *1926 - Lola Albright, American actress (''Peter Gunn'') *1932 - Otto Schily, German politician *1933 - Chuck Daly, American basketball coach *1933 - Nelson Doubleday, American book publisher and baseball executive *1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author *1933 - Rex Williams, England snooker player *1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer *1934 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress *1936 - Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator from Maryland *1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor *1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress: (''Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story'' (d. 1981) *1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, British actress *1939 - Judy Chicago, American feminist artist *1940 - Tony Oliva, Cuban-born American baseball player *1941 - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988) *1943 - Wendy Richard, British television actress (''Are You Being Served?'', ''EastEnders'') *1945 - Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter ("Bette Davis Eyes") *1945 - Larry Craig, U.S. Senator from Idaho *1946 - Peter Simons, Belgian director *1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist *1950 - Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor *1950 - Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress *1953 - Marcia Hines, American born-Australian singer *1954 - Moira Harris, American actress *1956 - Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols) *1959 - Radney Foster, American singer *1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician *1964 - Kool G. Rap, American musician *1964 - Terri Irwin, American television personality, wife of Steve Irwin *1968 - Michael Park, American actor (As the World Turns) *1968 - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor (Keen Eddie) *1969 - Colleen Fitzpatrick, British singer *1969 - Josh Holloway, American actor (Lost (television show)) *1971 - Charles Johnson, American baseball player *1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway *1973 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish-born hockey player *1974 - Simon Rex, American actor *1980 - Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian model *1996 - Billi Bruno, American actress (''According to Jim'') ==Deaths== ''For a fuller list of deaths, click July 20/Deaths.'' *985 - Pope Boniface VII *1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972) *1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March *1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405) *1524 - Queen Claude of France *1870 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, French writer *1897 - Jean Ingelow, England poet (b. 1820) *1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, poet and critic (b. 1840) *1903 - Pope Leo XIII *1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president *1922 - Andrey Markov, mathematician *1923 - Pancho Villa, revolutionary (assassinated) *1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police *1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania *1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor *1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer *1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871) *1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany *1951 - Abdullah I of Jordan, King of Jordan *1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900) *1953 - Jan Struther, British author *1957 - Dr. Alfred Einstein Cohen, American cardiologist *1959 - Admiral William Leahy, American naval officer *1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African civil rights leader, winner of the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize *1968 - Bray Hammond, American historian *1973 - Bruce Lee, actor and martial artist *1990 - Herbert T. Jenkins, American policeman *1991 - Earl Robinson, American singer and composer *1992 - John Bratby, British painter *1996 - Colin Mitchell, British Member of Parliament *1993 - Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel *1997 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler *1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress *2001 - Carlo Giuliani, Italian activist *2003 - Nicolas Freeling, crime writer * 2004 - Lala Mara, Fijian chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara ==Holidays and observances== *Colombia - Independence Day *Japan - Marine Day (Umi-no-hi, currently it falls on the third Monday in July.) *Occupied North Cyprus - Peace and Freedom Day *Argentina - Friendship Day *Feast day for at least thirteen saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Ss. Aurelius, Margaret of Antioch, Wilgefortis, Elias, Barhadbesciabas, Wulmar, Sabinus, Severa, Flavian, John of Pulsano, Joseph of Barsabas, Saint Margaret, and Paul of St. Zoilus. == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20 BBC: On This Day] ---- July 19 - July 21 - June 20 - August 20 -- historical anniversaries bs:Jul 20
--User:Maveric149 23:59, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:July 20 selected anniversaries - Template talk:July 20 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:July_20_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- == Copyedit == I put this page on needing copyediting because I've been staring at it so long it needs fresh sets of eyes to look it over. User:PedanticallySpeaking 15:26, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC) :Good God - 62KB? This article is now too long to be useful to most people. The purpose of the day pages has ''never'' been to document everything that happened on that day, but to include the most notable events. Each section in this article badly needs to be summarized/abridged and the current detail moved to Events of July 20, Births on July 20, and Deaths on July 20 (the last two would be a bit redundant with :category:July 20 births and :category:July 20 deaths, but oh well). --User:Maveric149 ::I got it down to below 32K, but it still needs work. User:Kingturtle 03:24, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Subpages== I today created subpages to the article, two for events, one each for births and deaths. I also restored the references section to the main page and placed it on each of the subpages. None of them produce a message about the length of the article. The statement was made that the page is "too long" and not useful. I compiled this so that for every year for the past eighty years has at least one event. Everyone is curious as to what happened on the day they were born and this enables them to find out at least one thing. User:PedanticallySpeaking 18:07, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC) *That is a very creative solution, but it can't remain. There is a specific format agreed upon (see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year), and subpages currently is not part of that format. I am going to revert the article, and invite you to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Days of the year to discuss solutions for July 20. User:Kingturtle 18:16, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ==Events== ''For a fuller list of events, click July 20/Events1 for events before 1950 and July 20/Events2 for events after 1950.'' *514 - Pope Hormisdas assumes the papacy. *1304 - Edward I of England takes the last rebel Fall of Stirling Castle in the Wars of Scottish Independence. *1738 - French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. *1810 - Colombia declares independence from Spain. *1861 - American Civil War: The Confederate Congress of the Confederate States of America begins sitting in Richmond, Virginia. *1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek - Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate States of America forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack United States troops under General William T. Sherman. *1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. *1872 - The United States Patent Office awards the first patent for wireless telegraphy to Mahlon Loomis. *1881 - Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana *1914 - Russia: Czar Nicholas II of Russia welcomes France's President Raymond Poincaré. *1917 - The Corfu Declaration, which created the post-World War I Kingdom of Yugoslavia, was signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia. *1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the provisional government and survives an assassination attempt. *1917 - In the United States, the first military draft numbers are drawn for World War I. *1920 - The funeral of Empress Eugenie of France is held in St. Michael's Abbey near Farnborough, England. *1921 - Air mail service begins between New York, New York and San Francisco, California. *1922 - The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. *1925 - In Cleveland, Tennessee, Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes Monkey Trial during a session held out of doors about the literal truth of the Bible. *1927 - Michael I of Romania becomes King at age five upon the death of his father Ferdinand I of Romania. *1932 - Germany President Paul von Hindenburg signs a decree ordering Franz von Papen to take control of the Prussia state government and declares martial law. *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. *1933 - Germany's Franz von Papen and the Vatican's Cardinal Pope Pius XII sign a concordat on behalf of their respective nations. *1933 - In the United Kingdom, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism in London. *1933 - United States: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders new regulations on the trading of grain in order to curb speculators. *1933 - In Germany, two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets. *1936 - The Montreux Convention is signed in Montreux, Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. *1940 - Denmark leaves the League of Nations. *1940 - Billboard magazine publishes its first "Music Popularity Chart"; the first number one song is Frank Sinatra's "I'll Never Smile Again". *1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill limiting political activity by Federal employees, the Hatch Act. *1941 - 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 over the Don River near Voronezh. *1943 - World War II: American and Canadian troops conquer Enna, Italy on Sicily. *1943 - World War II: Axis leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer in northern Italy *1944 - Adolf Hitler survives the July 20 Plot an assassination attempt led by Claus von Stauffenberg. *1944 - World War II: American troops land on Guam near Port Apra, Guam. *1944 - In Bombay, India, health authorities announce a cholera epidemic has killed 34,000 in three months. *1944 - The United States Democratic Party nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for a fourth term as president. *1945 - The Congress of the United States approves the Bretton Woods Agreement. *1946 - The Congress of the United States's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the Japan Pearl Harbor Attack and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces. *1947 - Pope Pius XII canonize a French saint, Blessed Louis-Marie Gregnon de Montort. *1948 - President Harry S. Truman issues the first peacetime military draft in the United States 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 - In Belgium, Politics of Belgium authorizes king Leopold III of Belgium to return from exile in Austria. *1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. *1952 - The Egypt prime minister, Hussein Sirry Pasha resigns. *1952 - The 1952 Summer Olympics begin in Helsinki, Finland. *1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency. *1954 - United States Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accepts the resignation of his aide Roy Cohn. *1957 - The Soviet Union closes Peter the Great Bay, which provides access to Vladivostok, to foreign ships. *1959 - The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain. *1960 - The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington (SSBN-598), for the first time. *1960 - In Lebanon, Saeb Salem is named Prime Minister. *1961 - The Arab League admits Kuwait to membership. *1964 - NASA successfully tests the first electric rocket engine in California. *1965 - In Greece, Elias Tsirimokos becomes prime minister. *1969 - Apollo 11 lands on the Moon and Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin become the first humans to walk on its surface. *1972 - In the Netherlands, the cabinet of Prime Minister Barend Biesheuvel resigns in a dispute over the budget. *1973 - The United States Senate passes the War Powers Act. *1973 - In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Friedheim to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, the United States Defense Department admits it lied to Congress of the United States about bombing Cambodia . *1973 - Palestinian terrorist hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai. *1973 - Indiana is found guilty of operating segregated schools by federal judge S. Hugh Dillin, who orders the state to develop a desegregation plan for Indianapolis's schools. *1974 - Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after Greek Cypriots' attempt at enosis. NATO's Council praises the United States and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert. *1976 - The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars (planet). *1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments. *1979 - Diana Nyad swims the sixty miles from the Bahamas to Florida. *1980 - Takieddih Solh is named Lebanon's new prime minister. *1980 - The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. *1980 - The United States Air Force reveals it has a stealth plane. *1981 - The United States suspends sales of F-16 fighter jets to Israel *1984 - Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Williams to quit after ''Penthouse'' published nude photos of her. *1987 - The United Nations Security Council demands a ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War. *1988 - The United States Democratic Party nominate Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts for President. *1990 - Iran Contra: All of Colonel Oliver North's convictions for perjury and other offenses are overturned by an appeals court. *1992 - In Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel resigns as president. *1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter (planet). *2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake City's 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering. *2001 - The London Stock Exchange goes public. *2002 - The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police. *2002 - The United States Senate confirms Roger L. Gregory as the first black to sit on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. *2004 - Former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger resigns as an advisor to Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign after it was revealed he stole classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration. *2004 - PETA releases a video of gross cruelty to animals to chickens taken at Pilgrim's Pride, one of KFC's suppliers in West Virginia, and the company pledged to investigate the claims. *2004 - Ahmed Qurei, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, agrees to withdraw his resignation, three days after tendering it. *2004 - Human Rights Watch releases a report stating that Sudan government documents confirm support for the Arab Janjaweed militia in their campaign of ethnic cleansing against African Muslims in Darfur. ==Births== ''For a fuller list of births, click July 20/Births.'' *1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374) *1519 - Pope Innocent IX *1754 - Destutt de Tracy, philosopher *1797 - Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Poland explorer and geologist (d. 1873) *1838 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928) *1838- Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899) *1847 - Max Liebermann, painter and graphic artist (d. 1935) *1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918) *1868 - Miron Cristea, First patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (d. 1939) *1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932) *1889 - John Reith, BBC director-general *1890 - Theda Bara (Theodosia Burr Goodman), American actress (d. 1955) * 1890 - King George II of Greece (d. 1947) *1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, painter, photographer, sculptor (d. 1946) *1897 - Clifford Braughton, American actor (d. 1979) *1901 - Heinie Manush, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1971) *1902 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984) *1918 - Cindy Walker, American country music singer *1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber *1920 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999) *1923 - Stanislaw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d.2005) *1924 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer *1924 - Thomas Berger (US novelist), American novelist *1925 - Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission *1926 - Lola Albright, American actress (''Peter Gunn'') *1932 - Otto Schily, German politician *1933 - Chuck Daly, American basketball coach *1933 - Nelson Doubleday, American book publisher and baseball executive *1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author *1933 - Rex Williams, England snooker player *1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer *1934 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress *1936 - Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator from Maryland *1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor *1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress: (''Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story'' (d. 1981) *1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, British actress *1939 - Judy Chicago, American feminist artist *1940 - Tony Oliva, Cuban-born American baseball player *1941 - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988) *1943 - Wendy Richard, British television actress (''Are You Being Served?'', ''EastEnders'') *1945 - Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter ("Bette Davis Eyes") *1945 - Larry Craig, U.S. Senator from Idaho *1946 - Peter Simons, Belgian director *1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist *1950 - Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor *1950 - Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress *1953 - Marcia Hines, American born-Australian singer *1954 - Moira Harris, American actress *1956 - Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols) *1959 - Radney Foster, American singer *1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician *1964 - Kool G. Rap, American musician *1964 - Terri Irwin, American television personality, wife of Steve Irwin *1968 - Michael Park, American actor (As the World Turns) *1968 - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor (Keen Eddie) *1969 - Colleen Fitzpatrick, British singer *1969 - Josh Holloway, American actor (Lost (television show)) *1971 - Charles Johnson, American baseball player *1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway *1973 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish-born hockey player *1974 - Simon Rex, American actor *1980 - Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian model *1996 - Billi Bruno, American actress (''According to Jim'') ==Deaths== ''For a fuller list of deaths, click July 20/Deaths.'' *985 - Pope Boniface VII *1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972) *1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March *1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405) *1524 - Queen Claude of France *1870 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, French writer *1897 - Jean Ingelow, England poet (b. 1820) *1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, poet and critic (b. 1840) *1903 - Pope Leo XIII *1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president *1922 - Andrey Markov, mathematician *1923 - Pancho Villa, revolutionary (assassinated) *1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police *1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania *1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor *1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer *1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871) *1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany *1951 - Abdullah I of Jordan, King of Jordan *1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900) *1953 - Jan Struther, British author *1957 - Dr. Alfred Einstein Cohen, American cardiologist *1959 - Admiral William Leahy, American naval officer *1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African civil rights leader, winner of the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize *1968 - Bray Hammond, American historian *1973 - Bruce Lee, actor and martial artist *1990 - Herbert T. Jenkins, American policeman *1991 - Earl Robinson, American singer and composer *1992 - John Bratby, British painter *1996 - Colin Mitchell, British Member of Parliament *1993 - Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel *1997 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler *1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress *2001 - Carlo Giuliani, Italian activist *2003 - Nicolas Freeling, crime writer * 2004 - Lala Mara, Fijian chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara ==Holidays and observances== *Colombia - Independence Day *Japan - Marine Day (Umi-no-hi, currently it falls on the third Monday in July.) *Occupied North Cyprus - Peace and Freedom Day *Argentina - Friendship Day *Feast day for at least thirteen saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Ss. Aurelius, Margaret of Antioch, Wilgefortis, Elias, Barhadbesciabas, Wulmar, Sabinus, Severa, Flavian, John of Pulsano, Joseph of Barsabas, Saint Margaret, and Paul of St. Zoilus. == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20 BBC: On This Day] ---- July 19 - July 21 - June 20 - August 20 -- historical anniversaries bs:Jul 20
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--User:Maveric149 23:59, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:July 20 selected anniversaries - Template talk:July 20 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:July_20_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- == Copyedit == I put this page on needing copyediting because I've been staring at it so long it needs fresh sets of eyes to look it over. User:PedanticallySpeaking 15:26, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC) :Good God - 62KB? This article is now too long to be useful to most people. The purpose of the day pages has ''never'' been to document everything that happened on that day, but to include the most notable events. Each section in this article badly needs to be summarized/abridged and the current detail moved to Events of July 20, Births on July 20, and Deaths on July 20 (the last two would be a bit redundant with :category:July 20 births and :category:July 20 deaths, but oh well). --User:Maveric149 ::I got it down to below 32K, but it still needs work. User:Kingturtle 03:24, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Subpages== I today created subpages to the article, two for events, one each for births and deaths. I also restored the references section to the main page and placed it on each of the subpages. None of them produce a message about the length of the article. The statement was made that the page is "too long" and not useful. I compiled this so that for every year for the past eighty years has at least one event. Everyone is curious as to what happened on the day they were born and this enables them to find out at least one thing. User:PedanticallySpeaking 18:07, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC) *That is a very creative solution, but it can't remain. There is a specific format agreed upon (see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year), and subpages currently is not part of that format. I am going to revert the article, and invite you to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Days of the year to discuss solutions for July 20. User:Kingturtle 18:16, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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