Notable Historical Events on July 20th
July 20th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
514 |
St Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus |
1031 |
Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France |
1304 |
Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war. |
1402 |
Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur' beats Sultan Bajezid I's Ottoman forces |
1495 |
French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders |
1498 |
Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands |
1553 |
John Dudley, Lord President of the Council under Edward VI, captured in Cambridge |
1609 |
Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion |
1619 |
Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader |
1627 |
English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle [OS=June 10] |
1654 |
Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control |
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. |
1749 |
Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds" |
1773 |
Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada) |
1801 |
Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm |
1808 |
Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names |
1810 |
Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain. |
1836 |
Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension |
1847 |
German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf |
1849 |
Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield |
1855 |
1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands |
1858 |
Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18) |
1858 |
Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour |
1861 |
Confederate states' congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va |
1862 |
Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866 |
1864 |
Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured |
1864 |
Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign |
1866 |
Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy |
1868 |
1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes |
1871 |
British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. |
1876 |
1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins |
1877 |
Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9 |
1878 |
1st telephone introduced in Hawaii |
1878 |
2nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Hadow beats S Gore (7-5- 6-1 9-7) |
1881 |
Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops |
1890 |
"Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing |
1890 |
Snow & hail in Calais, Maine |
1893 |
10th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats B Hillyard (6-8 6-1 6-4) |
1893 |
17th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (3-6 6-1 6-3 6-2) |
1894 |
2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike |
1901 |
Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco's frontier with Algeria, a French colony |
1903 |
Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X, known as the 'pope of the poor and humble' |
1906 |
Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0 |
1907 |
A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more. |
1910 |
Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption |
1911 |
Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0 |
1911 |
Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany |
1912 |
Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game |
1913 |
Turkish troops take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria |
1914 |
Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster |
1916 |
Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds |
1917 |
Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats & Slovenes form Yugoslavia |
1917 |
WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn |
1918 |
World War I: German troops cross the Marne. |
1920 |
Heerenveen soccer team forms |
1921 |
Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives. |
1922 |
Togo made a mandate of League of Nations |
1923 |
Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2 |
1924 |
Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris |
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. |
1925 |
Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France |
1925 |
Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie |
1926 |
A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests. |
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. |
1930 |
106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record) |
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 |
Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler |
1933 |
In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism. |
1933 |
Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets. |
1934 |
118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record) |
1935 |
1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio |
1935 |
Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. |
1938 |
Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws |
1940 |
Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands |
1940 |
Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist |
1940 |
Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey) |
1941 |
Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17 |
1942 |
1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training |
1942 |
Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8 |
1942 |
Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress |
1942 |
Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover |
1943 |
US Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz over the landing on Gilbert Island |
1944 |
British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy |
1944 |
Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs |
1944 |
Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre |
1944 |
Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins |
1944 |
Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen |
1944 |
Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau |
1944 |
General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy |
1944 |
Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen |
1944 |
Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack |
1944 |
Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach |
1944 |
US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention |
1944 |
US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen |
1944 |
US 9th Air Force bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux |
1944 |
US invades Japanese-occupied Guam |
1944 |
Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy) |
1944 |
Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City. |
1944 |
Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by Germany army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg. |
1947 |
1st political action of Neth Army on Java & Sumatra |
1948 |
Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ |
1948 |
Syngman Rhee elected President of South Korea |
1948 |
US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested |
1949 |
Israel's 19 month war of independence ends |
1949 |
Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria |
1950 |
"Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC) |
1951 |
King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. |
1952 |
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0) |
1952 |
Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France |
1953 |
USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations |
1953 |
The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency. |
1954 |
Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North & South |
1954 |
Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident |
1954 |
West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR |
1956 |
France recognizes Tunisian independence |
1956 |
Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam |
1956 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
1956 |
Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs |
1958 |
40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA |
1958 |
Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
1958 |
King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR |
1960 |
1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington) |
1960 |
Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon |
1960 |
USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space |
1960 |
The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage. |
1961 |
French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte. |
1962 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony |
1962 |
France & Tunisia recover diplomatic relations |
1963 |
17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC |
1963 |
18th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills |
1963 |
Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
1963 |
Riots break out at Mt Eden Prison, Auckland, New Zealand |
1964 |
1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City" |
1964 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet |
1965 |
18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record) |
1965 |
NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam |
1967 |
Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes |
1967 |
Race riots in Memphis Tenn |
1968 |
Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV |
1968 |
Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117 |
1969 |
1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. from Apollo 11 |
1969 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open |
1969 |
Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France |
1970 |
Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks |
1972 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1973 |
Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ |
1973 |
Chic's Wilbur Wood starts & loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, & 7-0 |
1973 |
The US Senate passes the War Powers Act. |
1974 |
Heng Yo & Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage |
1974 |
Turkey invades Cyprus |
1975 |
30th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer |
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 |
Hank Aaron hits 755th & last home run off Angels Dick Drago |
1976 |
US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing |
1976 |
Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand. |
1976 |
Rev. Samuel Mutendi, founder of the first African Independent Church, dies |
1977 |
Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage |
1977 |
The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments. |
1979 |
44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash |
1980 |
109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane |
1980 |
Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France |
1980 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
1981 |
England set for innings loss v Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls |
1981 |
Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe |
1982 |
T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London |
1982 |
Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London |
1983 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1984 |
Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m |
1984 |
Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America |
1985 |
Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha |
1985 |
The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles. |
1986 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1987 |
Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs |
1988 |
Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee |
1989 |
93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona |
1989 |
Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest |
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. |
1990 |
Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years |
1991 |
Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant |
1992 |
121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane |
1992 |
Round World Air Race begins in Paris |
1992 |
Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia. |
1993 |
Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium |
1994 |
Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd) |
1994 |
OJ Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller |
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 |
1997 |
126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon |
1997 |
American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272 |
1997 |
Burnet Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Michele Redman wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Classic |
1998 |
Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Médecins Sans Frontières (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 crackdown of the practice is launched. |
2000 |
The leaders of Salt Lake City's 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 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 bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice. |
2003 |
132nd British Golf Open: Ben Curtis shoots a 283 at Royal St George's Golf Club |
2005 |
Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent. |
2008 |
137th British Golf Open: Pádraig Harrington shoots a 283 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club |
2008 |
16th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Candace Parker win |
2012 |
12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado, |
2012 |
21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico |
2014 |
Rory McIlroy wins the 2014 Open Championship (British Open) |
2017 |
CBO estimates 32 million more uninsured in a decade with Obamacare repeal |
2017 |
Republican Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain tumour |
2017 |
CBO estimates 32 million more uninsured in a decade with Obamacare repeal |
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