20 de Julho ---------- July 20 is the 201st day of the year. There are 164 days remaining until the end of the year. 1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. 1799 – Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of five reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia. 1810 – Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain. 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. 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 the Moon almost 7 hours later. (US Time) 1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments. 2012 – During a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, a gunman opens fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58. Nascimentos: 1873 – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator 1895 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor 1932 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-American artist (d. 2006) 1947 – Carlos Santana, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1964 – Kool G Rap, American rapper and producer (Juice Crew) 1968 – Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian director 1971 – DJ Screw, American rapper and DJ (Screwed Up Click) 1975 – El Zorro, Mexican wrestler 1980 – Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model and actress Mortes: 1973 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor, poet, instructor of Jun Fan Gung Fu, filmmaker, and martial artist, invented Jeet Kune Do (b. 1940) 1973 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938) 2011 – Lucian Freud, German-English painter (b. 1922)
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