About July 20
July 20, 2024 is the 202nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 164 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 193 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 20
- 1738 –Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
- 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.
- 1885 –The Football Association legalizes professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association.
- 1922 –The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1936 –The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
- 1938 –The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
- 1940 –California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
- 1940 –Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
- 1941 –Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
- 1950 –Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
- 1951 –King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
- 1960 –The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
- 1961 –French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
- 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”.
- 1969 –Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on another world almost 7 hours later.
- 1974 –Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'etat, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
- 1989 –Burma’s ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
- 1999 –Falun Gong is banned in the People’s Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched.
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