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| Birthday July 20, 1304 Petrarch, in Italy, poet |
| Birthday July 20, 1785 Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan, Westernizer, reformer. |
| Birthday July 20, 1864 Erik Karlfeldt, Swedish poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous). |
| Birthday July 20, 1890 Theda Bara, Actress (Under Two Flags, Cleopatra). (or 0729) |
| Birthday July 20, 1919 Sir Edmund Hillary born |
| Birthday July 20, 1919 Sir Edmund Hillary, one of 1st two men to scale Mt. Everest. |
| Birthday July 20, 1920 Elliot L. Richardson, former US attorney general. |
| Birthday July 20, 1924 Lola Albright, Actress. |
| Birthday July 20, 1930 Sally Ann Howes, in London England |
| Birthday July 20, 1933 Nelson Doubleday, Publisher |
| Birthday July 20, 1933 Acclaimed author Cormac McCarthy is born |
| Birthday July 20, 1938 Diana Rigg, in Doncaster Engl, (Mrs. Peele in The Avengers). |
| Birthday July 20, 1938 Natalie Wood, Actress in SF |
| Birthday July 20, 1938 JoAnn Campbell, in Fla - Lawrence Welk's champagne lady |
| Birthday July 20, 1941 Vladimir A. Lyakhov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 32, T-9). |
| Birthday July 20, 1944 T. J. Shephard, Country singer |
| Birthday July 20, 1946 Kim Carnes |
| Birthday July 20, 1947 Carlos Santana, musician. |
| Birthday July 20, 1957 Donna Dixon |
| Birthday July 20, 1970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island |
| History July 20, 1780 Mad Anthony Wayne loses to Loyalists in New Jersey |
| History July 20, 1810 Columbia gains independence |
| History July 20, 1859 Admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50›) |
| History July 20, 1864 Confederates attack at the Battle of Peachtree Creek |
| History July 20, 1871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province. |
| History July 20, 1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii. |
| History July 20, 1881 Sitting Bull surrenders |
| History July 20, 1889 Homesteaders murdered by Wyoming ranchers |
| History July 20, 1914 Caillaux trial begins in Paris |
| History July 20, 1923 Yanks hit into a triple play but beat A's 9-2 |
| History July 20, 1941 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17 |
| History July 20, 1944 Assassination plot against Hitler fails |
| History July 20, 1944 US invaded Japanese-occupied Guam in WWII |
| History July 20, 1948 Truman issues peacetime draft |
| History July 20, 1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends |
| History July 20, 1951 King of Jordan assassinated |
| History July 20, 1956 Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike outs |
| History July 20, 1960 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington) |
| History July 20, 1960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space. |
| History July 20, 1963 Jan and Dean's Surf City hits #1 |
| History July 20, 1964 Viet Cong troops overrun town |
| History July 20, 1969 1st men on the Moon Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin Apollo 11 |
| History July 20, 1969 Nixon watches first lunar landing |
| History July 20, 1969 Duck Hook plan completed |
| History July 20, 1972 U.S. government study disputes Nader's charges against Corvair |
| History July 20, 1973 Bruce Lee dies at age 32 |
| History July 20, 1976 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia 1st Martian landing. |
| History July 20, 1976 Viking 1 lands on Mars |
| History July 20, 1977 Second great flood hits Johnstown |
| History July 20, 1977 Voyager 2 launched. |
| History July 20, 1984 Uwe Hohn of E Germany throws javelin a record 104.80 m. |
| History July 20, 1984 A serial-killing couple is apprehended |
| History July 20, 1987 Don Mattingly ties major league fielding record with 22 put outs |
| History July 20, 2012 12 people killed, 70 wounded in Colorado movie theater shooting |