WillDekkard
07-21-2010, 06:00 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - July 20th
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* 70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 911 Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
* 1304 Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
* 1402 Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
* 1656 Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
* 1712 The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
* 1738 North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vιrendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
* 1810 Citizens of Bogotα, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
* 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
* 1866 Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa The Austrian Navy , led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
* 1871 British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
* 1877 Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths.
* 1881 Indian Wars:Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota
* 1885 The Football Association legalises professionalism in 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 explodes on the USS Iowa off the coast of Santiago de Cuba.
WillDekkard
07-21-2010, 06:00 AM
* 1903 Ford Motor Company ships its first car. <br />
* 1907 A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy. <br />
* 1916 World War I: In Armenia,...
WillDekkard
07-21-2010, 06:01 AM
* 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 parallel.
* 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, for the first time.
* 1960 Belgium defends its intervention in the 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 United States 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 Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage.
* 1961 French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
* 1964 Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Dinh Tuong Province, Cai Be, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children).
* 1964 The National Movement of the Revolution is instituted as the sole legal political party in the Republic of Congo.
* 1965 Turkish prime minister Suat Hayri Urguplu returns from a visit to Moscow and announces the Soviet Union will provide aid to his country.
* 1968 Special Olympics founded.
* 1969 Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully lands on the Moon at 20:17 UTC on July 20.
* 1969 A cease fire is 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 Palestianian 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 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 United States 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.
* 1976 Vietnam War: The U.S. military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
* 1976 Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career.
* 1977 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 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 bombs in 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 Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon.
* 1984 Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Lynn Williams to quit after Penthouse publishes 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 UN Security Council Resolution 598, condemning the IranIraq 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 Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
* 1992 Vαclav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
* 1992 The first post-Soviet monetary reform in Latvia ended, as the Soviet rouble lost its status as legal tender.
* 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.
* 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 crackdown of the practice is launched.
* 1999 Recovery, from 4.5 km down in the Atlantic, of the Liberty Bell 7 space capsule, which sank after Virgil Grissom's July 21, 1961 suborbital flight.
* 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 Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.
* 2001 The London Stock Exchange Group plc which owns 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.
* 2005 Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.
* 2006 Ethiopian invasion of Somalia Ethiopian troops enter Somalian territory.
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