About July 20
July 20, 2025 is the 201st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 164 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 212 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 20
- 911 –Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
- 1738 –Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
- 1807 –Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
- 1810 –Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
- 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.
- 1903 –The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
- 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.
- 1934 –Labor unrest in the U.S.: as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
- 1940 –California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
- 1949 –Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
- 1950 –Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
- 1960 –The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
- 1968 –The first Special Olympics is held.
- 1969 –A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the “Football War”.
- 1976 –The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- 1977 –The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
- 1985 –The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
- 1989 –Burma’s ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
- 1992 –Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
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