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 201^st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 164 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 7, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,216,160 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 ‘dihectahenagon’ 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 212 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 4,594 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 20 Historical Events

• 911 –
  Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
• 1402 –
  Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara – Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
• 1903 –
  The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
• 1949 –
  Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
• 1950 –
  Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
• 1951 –
  King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
• 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 another world almost 7 hours later.
• 1982 –
  Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
• 1992 –
  Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
• 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?

• 1909 –
  Eric Rowan, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1952 (d. 1993)
• 1911 –
  Baqa Jilani, Indian cricketer (d. 1941)
• 1938 –
  Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
• 1943 –
  Wendy Richard, English actress (d. 2009)
• 1948 –
  Muse Watson, American actor
• 1968 –
  Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player
• 1973 –
  Claudio Reyna, American soccer player
• 1973 –
  Omar Epps, American actor
• 1976 –
  Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
• 1988 –
  Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer

Who died on July 20?

• 1387 –
  Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (b. 1356)
• 1704 –
  Peregrine White, first English child born to the Pilgrims in the New World (b. 1620)
• 1932 –
  René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
• 1944 –
  Ludwig Beck, German colonel general, part of July 20 Plot (b. 1880)
• 1955 –
  Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869)
• 1956 –
  James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
• 1977 –
  Gary Kellgren, American music producer (b. 1939)
• 2003 –
  Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
• 2005 –
  Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)
• 2006 –
  Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)