What are the important events that happened on July 20? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 20: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 20 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 7, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,690,560 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadigon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,229 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 20 Historical Events
1810 –
Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
1871 –
British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
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.
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.
1960 –
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world’s first elected female head of government.
1961 –
French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
1977 –
Johnstown, Pennsylvania is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage.
1985 –
The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
1999 –
Falun Gong is banned in the People’s Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched.
Who were born on July 20?
1774 –
Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
1943 –
Wendy Richard, English actress (d. 2009)
1944 –
Olivier de Kersauson, French sailor
1951 –
Jeff Rawle, English actor
1956 –
Jim Prentice, Canadian politician
1962 –
Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian
1966 –
Stone Gossard, American musician (Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Brad)
1972 –
Jozef Stümpel, Slovak ice hockey player
1973 –
Mads Rieper, Danish footballer
1979 –
Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress
Who died on July 20?
985 –
Pope Boniface VII
1031 –
King Robert II of France (b. 972)
1616 –
Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
1704 –
Peregrine White, first English child born to the Pilgrims in the New World (b. 1620)
1866 –
Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
1908 –
Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (b. 1835)
1944 –
Ludwig Beck, German colonel general, part of July 20 Plot (b. 1880)
1951 –
King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
1981 –
Kostas Choumis, Greek-Romanian footballer (b. 1913)
2004 –
Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fijian chieftainess (b. 1931)
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