JULY 20: EVENTS: • 1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car. • 1935 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. • 1940 – Denmark leaves the League of Nations. • 1940 – California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway. • 1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. • 1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the worlds first elected female head of government. • 1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time. • 1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities. • 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11s crew successfully makes the first landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon later that day (Eastern Time Zone). • 1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars. • 1997 – The fully restored USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years. BIRTHDAYS: • 356 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king. • 1852 – Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister ofthe Netherlands. • 1864 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet, Nobel Prize laureate. • 1911 – Baqa Jilani, Indian cricketer. • 1975 – Atiq-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer. • 1976 – Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer and coach. DEATH ANNIVERSARIES: • 1922 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician. • 1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. • 1972 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer. • 1973 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist. IMPORTANT DAYS: • Friends Day (Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil) • Independence Day, celebrates the independence declaration of Colombiafrom Spain in 1810. #Posted by Dhanus Mathi Maths in competitive GK group.
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