This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
07/20/1304 Francesco Petrarch, Italy, poet (Italia Mia) 
07/20/1513 Gaspar Schetz, Dutch treasurer-general 
07/20/1519 Innocent IX, [Giovanni A Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591) 
07/20/1600 Simon Ives, composer 
07/20/1663 Pierre Drevet, French engraver 
07/20/1709 James Harris, philosopher 
07/20/1720 Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer 
07/20/1726 William Jones, composer 
07/20/1744 Henri Hamal, composer 
07/20/1761 Joseph Lefebvre, composer 
07/20/1762 Jakob Haibel, composer 
07/20/1766 Thomas Bruce, count of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat 
07/20/1779 Ignaz Schuster, composer 
07/20/1785 Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39)/Westernizer/reformer 
07/20/1793 Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski) 
07/20/1796 Edward Hodges, composer 
07/20/1803 Jakob Zeugheer, composer 
07/20/1804 Richard Owen, British zoologist 
07/20/1806 John Sterling, writer (Representative Victorian) 
07/20/1811 James Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, governor (Jamaica) 
07/20/1814 Ivan S Gagarin, Russian theologist 
07/20/1816 William Bowman, English anatomist 
07/20/1819 Paul Henrion, composer 
07/20/1824 Alexander Schimmelfennig, Brig General (Union volunteers) 
07/20/1837 Hans Sommer, composer 
07/20/1847 Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter 
07/20/1852 Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, lawyer/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-13) 
07/20/1853 Geo[rge] Poggenbeek, water colors painter 
07/20/1860 Johannes Walter, German geologist (Die Denudation of Wste) 
07/20/1864 Erik Karlfeldt, Sweden, poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous) 
07/20/1872 Alick Maclean, composer 
07/20/1872 Deodat de Severac, composer 
07/20/1873 Witold Maliszewski, composer 
07/20/1880 Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer 
07/20/1881 Leon de Smet, Flemish painter 
07/20/1885 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian 
07/20/1887 Willem H Drucker, lawyer 
07/20/1889 John Charles Reith, 1st Baron Reith, 1st dir-gen BBC (1927-38) 
07/20/1890 Theda Bara, actress (Under Two Flags, Cleopatra) [or 0729] 
07/20/1890 Verna Felton, Salinas Calif, actress (Hilda-December Bride) 
07/20/1893 Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20) 
07/20/1893 Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Woher ich comb) 
07/20/1897 Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950) 
07/20/1900 Gottfried von Haberler, Austrian economist 
07/20/1900 Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria's Life) 
07/20/1902 Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle security) 
07/20/1902 Dilys Powell, English writer (Descent from Parnassus) 
07/20/1903 Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician 
07/20/1908 Gunnar de Frumerie, composer 
07/20/1910 Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian (William the Silent) 
07/20/1912 John Dacie, hematologist 
07/20/1913 Lucien Goldmann, Romania/Fren sociologist/philosopher (Le dieu cach‚

07/20/1919 Edmund Hillary, one of 1st 2 men to scale Mt Everest 
07/20/1920 Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General (1973)/Sec of Defense (1973) 
07/20/1920 Jack Harman, British general 
07/20/1920 Jeffrey Petersen, British diplomat 
07/20/1920 Lev Aronin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1950) 
07/20/1924 Hans Lodeizen, [Johannes A Frederik], poet (Inner Self) 
07/20/1924 Lola Albright, Akron, Ohio, actress (Delta Country, Kid Galahad) 
07/20/1924 Thomas Berger, US, novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man) 
07/20/1925 Jacques Delors, economist 
07/20/1927 Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker 
07/20/1927 Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor/composer 
07/20/1928 Jan Meyers, (Rep-R-Kansas, 1985-  ) 
07/20/1928 Pavel Kohout, Czech dramatist/director 
07/20/1928 Peter Ind, jazz musician 
07/20/1930 Sally Ann Howes, London England, actress (Dead of Night) 
07/20/1932 Nam June Paik, Seoul Korea, video artist (Medium is the Medium) 
07/20/1933 Jose Vicente Asuar, composer 
07/20/1933 Nelson Doubleday, publisher (Doubleday)/owner (NY Mets) 
07/20/1935 Ted Rogers, comedian 
07/20/1936 Barbara A Mikulski, (Rep-D-MD, 1977-86/Sen-D-MD, 1986-  ) 
07/20/1938 Diana Rigg, Doncaster England, actress (Emma Peel-Avengers, Hospital

07/20/1938 Jo Ann Campbell, Jacksonville Fla, Lawrence Welk's champagne lady 
07/20/1938 Lord McGowan 
07/20/1938 Natalie Wood, [Natasha Gurdin], SF, (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause) 
07/20/1939 Judy Chicago, [Cohen], Chicago, artist (Dinner Party) 
07/20/1940 Tony Oliva, ball player, batting champ (AL Rookie of Year 1964) 
07/20/1941 Viktor Afanasiyevich Lyakhov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 32, T-9) 
07/20/1942 T G Sheppard, [William Browder], Humbolt Tn, singer (Devil in Bottle

07/20/1943 Chris Amon, Grand Prix racer 
07/20/1943 John Lodge, bassist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin) 
07/20/1944 Wim Van Drimmelen, Dutch sect Science Council of Government policy 
07/20/1945 Larry E Craig, (Rep-R-Idaho, 1981-  ) 
07/20/1946 Kim Carnes, singer (Bette Davis Eyes) 
07/20/1947 Carlos Santana, Mexico, rock guitarist (Santana-Black Magic Woman) 
07/20/1947 Gerd Binnig, Frankfurt, physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986) 
07/20/1947 James Harris, Monroe La, NFL quarterback (Buffalo, LA, San Diego) 
07/20/1948 Richard H Lehman, (Rep-D-CA, 1983-  ) 
07/20/1951 Larry Black, Miami Fla, 4x100 runner (Olympic-gold-1972) 
07/20/1954 Jay Jay French, NYC, guitarist (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It) 
07/20/1955 Michael Anthony, bassist (Van Halen-1984, Jump) 
07/20/1956 Charlie Magri, world champ flyweight boxer (1983) 
07/20/1956 Mima Jausovec, Yugoslavia, tennis player (French Open-1977) 
07/20/1956 Paul Cook, drummer (Sex Pistols) 
07/20/1957 Donna Dixon, Va, Mrs Dan Ackwoyd/actress (Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies

07/20/1958 Michael McNeill, synthesizer (Simple Minds-Don't You Forget About Me

07/20/1959 Radney Foster, Del Rio Tx, singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You) 
07/20/1960 Katie Rabbet, London England, Prince Andrew's former girlfriend 
07/20/1966 Beth Coats, Albuquerque NM, biathelete (Olympics-1994) 
07/20/1968 Chris Kennedy, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) 
07/20/1970 ?, 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island 
07/20/1971 Charles Johnson, Fort Pierce Fla, catcher (US Olympics 1992) 
07/20/1978 Charlie Korsmo, actor (Dick Tracy, What About Bob) 
07/20/1991 Scott Larue Willis, son of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/20/1031 Robert II de Vrome, King of France (996-1031), dies 
07/20/1201 Agnes of France, queen of France, dies [or 7/18] 
07/20/1322 Frederik II van Sierck, bishop of Utrecht (1317-22), dies 
07/20/1454 Johan II, King of Castili‰, dies at 49 
07/20/1573 Lancelot of Brederode, water beggar, beheaded 
07/20/1597 Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Neth publisher, dies

07/20/1607 Paulus Merula, lawyer/historian, dies 
07/20/1609 Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies (birth date unknow

07/20/1613 Heinrich Julius, [von Braunschweig-Wolfenbttel], duke, dies 
07/20/1636 John Oldham, trader in Mass, murdered by indians 
07/20/1732 Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer, dies at 51 
07/20/1752 John C Pepusch, English theater dir/composer (Beggar's opera), dies 
07/20/1762 Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies 
07/20/1808 Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66 
07/20/1819 John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies 
07/20/1824 Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies 
07/20/1825 Joseph-Denis Doche, composer, dies at 58 
07/20/1859 Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies 
07/20/1866 Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide 
07/20/1866 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies 
07/20/1868 Antoine Prumier, composer, dies at 75 
07/20/1868 Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer, dies at 62 
07/20/1870 Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian lawyer/min of justice (1918-19), dies 
07/20/1881 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh, dies 
07/20/1888 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, dies 
07/20/1898 Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86 
07/20/1903 Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93 
07/20/1908 Federico Chueca, composer, dies at 62 
07/20/1914 Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76 
07/20/1923 Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered at 55 
07/20/1927 Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61 
07/20/1936 Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75 
07/20/1936 Jos‚ Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies 
07/20/1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Ital engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies 
07/20/1939 Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies 
07/20/1940 Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide 
07/20/1942 Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle 
07/20/1944 ... Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing 
07/20/1944 ... Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed 
07/20/1944 Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 

07/20/1944 Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, die

07/20/1944 Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed 
07/20/1944 Gen Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies in bomb explosion 
07/20/1944 Heinz Burns, German (Olympic-gold-1936), dies in bombing 
07/20/1944 Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion 
07/20/1944 Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies 
07/20/1944 Pierre Vi‚not, French ambassador to London/writer, dies 
07/20/1944 Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed 
07/20/1945 Paul Val‚ry, French poet (Le cimetiŠre Marin, Mon Faust), dies at 73

07/20/1951 Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem 
07/20/1951 Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death

07/20/1954 Blair Moody, (Sen-Mich), dies at 52 
07/20/1957 Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46 
07/20/1962 Andr‚ Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51 
07/20/1962 George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86 
07/20/1968 Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies 
07/20/1973 Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], Chinese/US actor (Enter the Dragon), dies

07/20/1974 Allen Jenkins, actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74 
07/20/1983 Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59 
07/20/1984 Gail Kubik, composer, dies at 69 
07/20/1984 Jim [James] Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies at 52 
07/20/1986 Helen Craig, actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74 
07/20/1990 Sara Heyblom, actress, dies 
07/20/1993 Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/20/ 514 St Hormisdas begins his reign as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus 
07/20/1031 Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France 
07/20/1498 Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht gubernator/potestaat' of Neth 
07/20/1608 Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt marries Anna Weytzen in Delft 
07/20/1619 Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader 
07/20/1749 Earl of Chesterfield says 'Idleness is only refuge of weak minds' 
07/20/1773 Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada) 
07/20/1808 Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names 
07/20/1810 Colombia declares independence from Spain 
07/20/1836 Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension 
07/20/1847 German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf 
07/20/1855 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands 
07/20/1858 Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50›) (NY beats Bkln 22-18) 
07/20/1858 Gathering of PlombiŠres - Napoleon III meets Cavour 
07/20/1861 Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va 
07/20/1864 Battle of Atlanta, GA (Peachtree Creek, Chattahoochie River) -Atlant

07/20/1864 Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign 
07/20/1866 Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy 
07/20/1868 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes 
07/20/1871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province 
07/20/1872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... radio is born 
07/20/1876 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins

07/20/1877 Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9 
07/20/1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii 
07/20/1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops 
07/20/1890 'Gibbons Stamp Monthly' begins publishing 
07/20/1890 Snow & hail in Calais, ME 
07/20/1894 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike 
07/20/1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X 
07/20/1906 Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0 
07/20/1910 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption 
07/20/1911 Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0 
07/20/1911 Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British 
07/20/1911 Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany 
07/20/1912 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game 
07/20/1913 Turkish troop take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria 
07/20/1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster 
07/20/1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn 
07/20/1922 Togo made a mandate of League of Nations 
07/20/1923 Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2 
07/20/1924 F‚deration Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris 
07/20/1925 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against Fran

07/20/1925 Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmati‰ 
07/20/1927 Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis) 
07/20/1930 106øF (41øC), Washington, DC (district record) 
07/20/1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler 
07/20/1934 118øF (48øC), Keokuk, Iowa (state record) 
07/20/1938 Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws 
07/20/1940 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherland 
07/20/1940 Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist 
07/20/1940 Singles record charts 1st published by Billboard-Tommy Dorsey #1 
07/20/1941 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17 
07/20/1942 Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress 
07/20/1942 Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj on its cover 
07/20/1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines

07/20/1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff question adm Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island) 
07/20/1944 Brit/Canadian troops occupy (Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy 
07/20/1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies to France to meet Montgomery

07/20/1944 Canadian Cameroon Highlanders conquer St-Andr‚ 
07/20/1944 Canadian troops occupy Fleury Normandy 
07/20/1944 Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins 
07/20/1944 Field marshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen 
07/20/1944 Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau 
07/20/1944 Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen 
07/20/1944 Japanse aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack 
07/20/1944 July 20th Plot-Failed assassination attempt on Hitler 
07/20/1944 Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach 
07/20/1944 Pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention 
07/20/1944 US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen 
07/20/1944 US 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sabl‚-sur-Sarthe/Dreux 
07/20/1944 US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II 
07/20/1944 Violent battles in VerriŠres-hill (Normandy) 
07/20/1947 1st political action of Neth Army on Java & Sumatra 
07/20/1948 Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ 
07/20/1948 Syngman Rhee elected president of South-Korea 
07/20/1948 US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested 
07/20/1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends 
07/20/1949 Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria 
07/20/1950 'Arthur Murray Party' premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC) 
07/20/1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0) 
07/20/1952 Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France 
07/20/1953 USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations 
07/20/1954 Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident 
07/20/1954 West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR 
07/20/1956 France recognizes Tunisia's independence 
07/20/1956 Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam 
07/20/1956 Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs 
07/20/1958 Dow Finsterwald wins PGA golf tournament 
07/20/1960 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington) 
07/20/1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon 
07/20/1960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space 
07/20/1962 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 13th Symphony 
07/20/1962 France & Tunisia recover diplomatic relations 
07/20/1963 17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC 
07/20/1963 Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA cha

07/20/1964 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's 'Surf City' 
07/20/1964 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 10th String quartet 
07/20/1965 18.18' (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr recor

07/20/1967 Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes 
07/20/1967 Race riots in Memphis Tenn 
07/20/1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV 
07/20/1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 
07/20/1969 Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France 
07/20/1970 LA Angel Bill Singer no-hits Phillies, 5-0 
07/20/1973 Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ 
07/20/1974 Heng Yo & Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage 
07/20/1974 Turkey invades Cyprus 
07/20/1976 Last US troops leave Thailand 
07/20/1976 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing 
07/20/1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage 
07/20/1979 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash 
07/20/1980 Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France 
07/20/1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks 
07/20/1982 IRA bomb attacks in London 
07/20/1984 Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m 
07/20/1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha 
07/20/1987 Don Mattingly ties 1st base majors fielding record with 22 put-outs 
07/20/1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee 
07/20/1989 93ø F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona 
07/20/1989 Burma govt puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest 
07/20/1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years 
07/20/1991 Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate 

07/20/1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant 
07/20/1992 Round World Air Race begins in Paris 
07/20/1993 Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium 
07/20/1994 Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd) 
07/20/1994 OJ Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller 
07/20/1996 26th Olympic games open at Atlanta, Georgia (sched) 
  
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