HISTORICAL EVENTS ON 20th JULY. 514 - St Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus 1031 - Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war. 1402 - Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur beats Sultan Bajezid Is Ottoman forces 1495 - French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders 1498 - Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands 1553 - John Dudley, Lord President of the Council under Edward VI, captured in Cambridge 1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion 1619 - Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader 1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle [OS=June 10] 1654 - Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control 1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain. 1738 - North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. 1749 - Earl of Chesterfield says Idleness is only refuge of weak minds 1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada) 1801 - Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm 1808 - Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names 1810 - Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain. 1836 - Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension Naturalist Charles DarwinNaturalist Charles Darwin 1847 - German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf 1849 - Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield 1855 - 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands 1858 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18) 1858 - Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour 1861 - Confederate states congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va 1862 - Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porters & Poindexters) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866 1864 - Battle at Stephensons Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured 1864 - Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign 1866 - Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy 1868 - 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes 1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. 1876 - 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins 1877 - Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9 1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii 1878 - 2nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Hadow beats S Gore (7-5- 6-1 9-7) 1881 - Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops 1890 - Gibbons Stamp Monthly begins publishing 1890 - Snow & hail in Calais, Maine 1893 - 10th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats B Hillyard (6-8 6-1 6-4) 1893 - 17th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (3-6 6-1 6-3 6-2) 1894 - 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike 1901 - Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Moroccos frontier with Algeria, a French colony 1903 - Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X, known as the pope of the poor and humble 1906 - Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0 1907 - A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more. 1910 - Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption 1911 - Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0 1911 - Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany 1912 - Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game 1913 - Turkish troops take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria 1914 - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster 1916 - Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds 1917 - Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats & Slovenes form Yugoslavia 1917 - WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn 1918 - World War I: German troops cross the Marne. 1920 - Heerenveen soccer team forms 1921 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives. 1922 - Togo made a mandate of League of Nations 1923 - Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat As 9-2 1924 - Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris 1924 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people. 1925 - Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France 1925 - Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie 1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests. Aviator Charles LindberghAviator Charles Lindbergh 1927 - Charles Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis) 1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians. 1930 - 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record) 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. 1933 - Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler 1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism. 1933 - Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets. 1934 - 118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record) 1935 - 1st broadcast of Gang Busters on NBC-radio 1935 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. 1938 - Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws 1940 - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands 1940 - Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist 1940 - Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is Ill Never Smile Again by Tommy Dorsey) 1941 - Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17 Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1942 - 1st detachment of Womens Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training 1942 - Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8 1942 - Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress 1942 - Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover 1943 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz over the landing on Gilbert Island 1944 - British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy 1944 - Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs 1944 - Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre 1944 - Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins 1944 - Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen 1944 - Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau 1944 - General Eisenhower visits Montgomerys headquarter in Normandy 1944 - Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen 1944 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack 1944 - Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1944 - US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention 1944 - US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen 1944 - US 9th Air Force bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux 1944 - US invades Japanese-occupied Guam 1944 - Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy) 1944 - Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City. 1944 - Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by Germany army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg. 1947 - 1st political action of Neth Army on Java & Sumatra 1948 - Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ 1948 - Syngman Rhee elected President of South Korea 1948 - US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested 1949 - Israels 19 month war of independence ends 1949 - Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria 1950 - Arthur Murray Party premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC) 1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. First President of South Korea Syngman RheeFirst President of South Korea Syngman Rhee 1952 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0) 1952 - Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France 1953 - USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations 1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency. 1954 - Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North & South 1954 - Tennis champ Maureen Connollys right leg is crushed in an accident 1954 - West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR 1956 - France recognizes Tunisian independence 1956 - Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam 1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island 1956 - Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs 1958 - 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA 1958 - Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament 1958 - King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR 1960 - 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington) 1960 - Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon 1960 - USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space 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. 1962 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony 1962 - France & Tunisia recover diplomatic relations 1963 - 17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC 1963 - 18th US Womens Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills 1963 - Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ 1963 - Riots break out at Mt Eden Prison, Auckland, New Zealand 1964 - 1st surfin record to go #1-Jan & Deans Surf City 1964 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet 1965 - 18.18 (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record) 1965 - NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam Poet Pablo NerudaPoet Pablo Neruda 1967 - Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes 1967 - Race riots in Memphis Tenn 1968 - Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV 1968 - Iron Butterflys In-a-gadda-da-vida becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117 1969 - 1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. from Apollo 11 1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open 1969 - Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France 1970 - Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks 1972 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site 1973 - Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ 1973 - Chics Wilbur Wood starts & loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, & 7-0 1973 - The US Senate passes the War Powers Act. 1974 - Heng Yo & Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage 1974 - Turkey invades Cyprus 1975 - 30th US Womens Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer Astronaut & 1st Man on the Moon Neil ArmstrongAstronaut & 1st Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong 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 - Hank Aaron hits 755th & last home run off Angels Dick Drago 1976 - US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing 1976 - Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand. 1977 - Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage 1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments. 1979 - 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash 1980 - 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane 1980 - Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France 1980 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic 1981 - England set for innings loss v Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls 1981 - Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe 1982 - Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks 1982 - T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical Windy City, premieres in London 1983 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island Golfer Tom WatsonGolfer Tom Watson 1984 - Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m 1984 - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America 1985 - Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha 1985 - The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles. 1986 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic 1987 - Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs 1988 - Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee 1989 - 93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona 1989 - Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest 1989 - Photographer Robert Mapplethorpes show opens at Washington, D.C.s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institutions Corcoran Gallery cancels it. 1990 - Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years 1991 - Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant 1992 - 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane 1992 - Round World Air Race begins in Paris 1992 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia. Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike TysonHeavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 1993 - Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium 1994 - Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd) 1994 - OJ Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wifes klller 1995 - The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997. 1996 - In Spain an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35 1997 - 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon 1997 - American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272 1997 - Burnet Senior Golf Classic 1997 - Michele Redman wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Classic 1998 - Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban. 1999 - Falun Gong is banned in the Peoples Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched. 2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake Citys 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 - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him. 2001 - The London Stock Exchange goes public. NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ SimpsonNFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson 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.
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