What happened this day in history July 20

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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