July 20
is the 201st day (202nd in
leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining.
*
514 -
Pope Hormisdas assumes the papacy of the
Roman Catholic Church.
*
1304 -
Wars of Scottish Independence:
Fall of Stirling Castle -
King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.
*
1402 - Ottoman-Timurid Wars:
Battle of Ankara -
Timur, ruler of
Timurid Empire, defeated forces of the
Ottoman Empire sultan
Bayezid I*
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.
*
1810 - Citizens of
Bogotá,
New Granada declare independence from
Spain.
*
1833 - An
Anti-Mormon mob in
Independence, Missouri, destroys the
printing press for the
Book of Commandments, now among the most valuable 19th century books.
*
1861 -
American Civil War: The
Congress of the
Confederate States of America begins sitting in
Richmond, Virginia.
*
1864 - American Civil War:
Battle of Peachtree Creek - Near
Atlanta, Georgia,
Confederate forces led by
General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack
Union troops under
General William T. Sherman.
*
1866 -
Austro-Prussian War:
Battle of Lissa - The
Austrian Navy , led by
Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the
Italian Navy near the island of
Vis in the
Adriatic Sea.
*
1871 -
British Columbia joins the confederation of
Canada.
*
1872 - The
United States Patent Office awards the first
patent for
wireless telegraphy to
Mahlon Loomis.
*
1877 -
Rioting in
Baltimore, Maryland by
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state
militia, resulting in nine deaths.
*
1881 -
Indian Wars:
Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to
United States troops at
Fort Buford,
North Dakota*
1885 -
The Football Association legalises
professionalism in
football under pressure from the
British Football Association.
*
1903 -
Ford Motor Company shipped its first car.
*
1907 - A
train wreck on the
Pere Marquette Railroad near
Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more.
*
1916 -
World War I: In
Armenia, Russian troops capture
Gumiskhanek.
*
1917 - World War I: The
Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-
war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
* 1917 -
Alexander Kerensky becomes
Prime Minister and President of the
Russian provisional government and survives an assassination attempt.
*
1918 -
World War I:
German troops cross the
Marne.
* 1921 -
Air mail service begins between
New York City and
San Francisco.
*
1922 - The
League of Nations awards mandates of
Togoland to
France and
Tanganyika to the
United Kingdom.
*
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.
*
1926 - A convention of the
Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
*
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.
*
1929 -
Soviet troops attempt to cross the
Amur River into
Manchuria near
Blagoveschensk as tensions mount between the
Soviet Union and
China.
*
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.
* 1932 - Crowds in the capitals of
Bolivia and
Paraguay demand their governments declare war on the other after fighting on their border.
*
1933 -
Vice-Chancellor of Germany Franz von Papen and
Vatican Cardinal
Eugenio Pacelli sign a
concordat on behalf of their respective nations.
* 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 - Labor unrest in the United States, as police in
Minneapolis fire upon striking
truck drivers, wounding fifty;
Seattle police led by the mayor police fire
tear gas on and club 2,000 striking
longshoremen, and the
governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the
Portland docks.
*
1935 -
Switzerland: A
Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from
Milan to
Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
* 1935 - Riots between
Muslims and
Sikhs over a mosque in
Lahore,
India leave eleven dead.
*
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.
*
1937 - Two black men accused of stabbing a policeman are taken by a mob from the county jail in
Tallahassee, Florida and
lynched.
*
1938 - The
Justice Department files suit in
New York City against the
motion picture industry charging violations of
anti-trust law. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in
1948.
*
1940 -
Denmark leaves the
League of Nations.
* 1940 - US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the
Hatch Act, limiting political activity by Federal government employees.
*
1941 -
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the
NKVD and names
Lavrenti Beria its chief.
*
1942 -
World War II:
Red Army troops take
bridgeheads over the
Don River near
Voronezh.
* 1942 - World War II: The first unit of the
Women's Army Corps begins training in
Des Moines, Iowa.
*
1943 - World War II: American and Canadian troops conquer
Enna on
Sicily.
*
1944 - World War II:
Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the
July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel
Claus von Stauffenberg.
* 1944 - World War II: American troops land on
Guam near
Port Apra.
* 1944 - Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the
presidential palace in
Mexico City.
*
1945 - The
U.S. Congress approves the
Bretton Woods Agreement.
*
1946 - World War II: The
U.S. Congress's
Pearl Harbor Committee says
Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces.
*
1947 - Police in
Burma arrest former Prime Minister
U Saw and 19 others on charges of assassinating Prime Minister
U Aung San and seven members of his cabinet.
* 1947 - The
Viceroy of India says the people of the
Northwest Frontier Province overwhelmingly voted the previous day to join
Pakistan rather than
India.
*
1948 - US President
Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime
military draft in the
United States amid increasing tensions with the
Soviet Union.
* 1948 - In
New York City, twelve leaders of the
Communist Party USA are indicted under the
Smith Act including
William Z. Foster and
Gus Hall.
*
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 while attending Friday prayers in
Jerusalem.
*
1953 - The
United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make
UNICEF a permanent agency.
*
1954 -
Germany:
Otto John, head of
West Germany's secret service, defects to
East Germany.
* 1954 - At
Geneva, Switzerland, an
armistice is signed that ends fighting in
Vietnam and divides the country along the 17th
parallel.
*
1955 -
China sells
Taiwan's islands
Quemoy and
Matsu.
*
1958 - Twenty-six are dead in an explosion at a military base near
Kokin Breg,
Yugoslavia.
*
1959 - The
Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits
Spain.
*
1960 - Ceylon (now
Sri Lanka) elects
Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
* 1960 - The
Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the
USS George Washington, for the first time.
* 1960 -
Belgium defends its intervention in the
Congo to the
United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the
Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the
United States and
France and the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute.
* 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 -
Earthquakes in
Colombia kill 40.
*
1964 -
Vietnam War:
Viet Cong forces attack the capital of
Dinh Tuong Province,
Cai Be, killing 11
South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children).
*
1965 - In
Hayneville, Alabama, two
civil rights protesters, one a priest and the other a
seminarian, are shot by a deputy sheriff. The seminarian dies of his wounds.
* 1965 -
Turkish prime minister
Suat Hayri Urguplu returns from a visit to
Moscow and announces the
Soviet Union will provide aid to his country.
*
1969 -
Apollo Program:
Apollo 11 lands on the
Moon.
* 1969 - Cease fire announced between
Honduras and
El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the "
Football War"
*
1971 - President
Richard M. Nixon tells
Taiwan the
United States will continue to sell it arms.
* 1971 - The
Soviet Union says it will support
China's admission to the
United Nations*
1973 - The
United States Senate passes the
War Powers Act.
* 1973 - Vietnam War: In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense
Jerry Friedheim to the
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, the
United States Defense Department admits it lied to
U.S. Congress about bombing
Cambodia .
* 1973 - Seventy-three government officials and military officers are charged with conspiracy to overthrow the
Greek government.
* 1973 -
Palestianian terrorists hijack a
Japan Airlines jet en route from
Amsterdam to
Japan and force it down in
Dubai.
* 1973 - First coast-to-coast black-owned and operated radio network: The
National Black Network (NBN) begins operations.
*
1974 -
Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from
Turkey invade
Cyprus after a "coup d' etat", organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios .
NATO's Council praises the
United States and the
United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute.
Syria and
Egypt put their militaries on alert.
*
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 - The
Viking 1 lander successfully lands on
Mars.
* 1976 - Vietnam War: The United States military completes its troop withdrawal from
Thailand.
*
1977 -
Johnstown is hit by a
flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage.
* 1977 - The
Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the
Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in
mind control experiments.
*
1980 - The
United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognize
Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel.
*
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.
* 1983 - The
Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from
Beirut but to remain in southern
Lebanon.
*
1984 - Officials of the
Miss America pageant ask
Vanessa Lynn Williams to quit after
Penthouse published nude photos of her.
* 1985 - The government of
Aruba passes legislation to secede from the
Netherlands Antilles.
*
1986 - In
South Africa, police fire
tear gas into a church service for families of those held under the government's emergency decrees.
* 1986 - In
Cambridge,
Gerald Amirault of the
Fell Acres Day School is convicted of
molesting nine children.
*
1987 - President
Ronald Reagan appoints
Larry Kramer, co-founder of
Gay Men's Health Crisis, to a federal panel on
AIDS.
*
1989 -
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at
Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the
Smithsonian Institution's
Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
* 1989 -
Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
*
1990 -
Haiti asks the
United States to send observers to monitor its upcoming elections.
* 1990 - A
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the
International Stock Exchange in
London.
*
1992 -
Václav Havel resigns as president of
Czechoslovakia.
* 1992 - A
TU-154 cargo plane crashes in the suburbs of
Tbilisi,
Georgia, killing forty.
*
1994 -
Israel's
Shimon Peres visits
Jordan, the highest ranking Israeli official to do so
* 1994 -
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits
Jupiter.
*
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
*
1998 - Two hundred aid workers from
CARE International,
Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave
Afghanistan on orders of the
Taliban.
*
1999 -
Falun Gong is officially banned and defined as an "
evil cult" (
xiejiao) by Chinese government, and a large-scale persecution of its practitioners is launched.
*
2000 - The leaders of
Salt Lake City's
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.
* 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.
*
2003 -
Richard Sambrook, the Director of
BBC News, reveals that
David Kelly was the source of claims that
Downing Street had "sexed up" the "
Dodgy Dossier".
* 2003 -
France: Sixteen people are injured after two
bombs explode outside a tax office in
Nice.
*
2005 -
Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize
same-sex marriage, after the bill
C-38 receives its
Royal Assent.
* 2005 - In China's
Shaanxi province, a
coal mine explosion kills two dozen.
*
810 -
Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of
Hadith (d.
870)
*
1304 - Francesco
Petrarch, Italian poet (d.
1374)
*
1537 -
Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d.
1604)
*
1620 -
Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d.
1681)
*
1659 -
Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d.
1743)
*
1661 -
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French founder of the colony of Louisiana (d.
1706)
*
1673 -
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (d.
1747)
*
1754 -
Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d.
1836)
*
1774 -
Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d.
1852)
*
1797 -
Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d.
1873)
*
1838 -
Augustin Daly, American playwright (d.
1899)
* 1838 -
George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d.
1928)
*
1847 -
Max Liebermann, German artist (d.
1935)
*
1849 -
Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d.
1918)
*
1858 -
Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d.
1925)
*
1864 -
Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d.
1931)
*
1868 -
Miron Cristea, 1st
Patriarch of All Romania (d.
1939)
*
1873 -
Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d.
1932)
*
1889 -
John Reith, British broadcast executive (d.
1971)
*
1890 -
Theda Bara, American actress (d.
1955)
* 1890 - King
George II of Greece (d.
1947)
*
1895 -
László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d.
1946)
*
1897 -
Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d.
1996)
*
1901 -
Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d.
1971)
*
1902 -
Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d.
1984)
*
1910 -
Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d.
2004)
*
1912 -
Tom McDermott, American actor (d.
1996)
*
1918 -
Cindy Walker, American singer
*
1919 - Sir
Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber
*
1920 -
Elliot Richardson, American politician (d.
1999)
* 1920 -
Dick Lucas, American animator (d.
1997)
*
1922 -
Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician
*
1923 -
Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d.
2005)
*
1924 -
Thomas Berger, American novelist
* 1924 -
Mort Garson, Canadian composer
*
1925 -
Jacques Delors, French
President of the European Commission* 1925 -
Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d.
1961)
*
1926 -
Lola Albright, American actress
* 1926 -
Patricia Cutts, British actress (d.
1974)
*
1929 -
Mike Ilitch, American businessman, sports executive, and philanthropist
* 1929 -
Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d.
1999)
* 1930 -
James Kenney, British actor (d.
1982)
*
1932 -
Otto Schily, German politician
* 1932 -
Nam June Paik, Korean-American video artist (d.
2006)
*
1933 -
Chuck Daly, American basketball coach
* 1933 -
Nelson Doubleday, American publisher and baseball executive
* 1933 -
Cormac McCarthy, American author
* 1933 -
Rex Williams, English snooker player
*
1934 -
Uwe Johnson, German writer
* 1934 -
Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress
*
1936 -
Barbara Mikulski,
U.S. Senator from Maryland*
1937 -
Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
*
1938 - Dame
Diana Rigg, British actress
* 1938 -
Natalie Wood, American actress (d.
1981)
*1938 -
Roger Hunt, English footballer
*
1939 -
Judy Chicago, American artist
*
1940 -
Tony Oliva, Cuban-born
Major League Baseball player
*
1941 -
Kurt Raab, German actor (d.
1988)
*
1942 -
Pete Hamilton, American race car driver
*
1943 -
Wendy Richard, British actress
*
1945 -
Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter
* 1945 -
Larry Craig,
U.S. Senator from Idaho* 1945 -
John Lodge, British musician (
Moody Blues)
* 1945 -
Bo Rein, former college football coach at
North Carolina State and
LSU (d.
1980)
*
1946 -
Randal Kleiser, American film director
*
1947 -
Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
* 1947 -
Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
*
1948 -
Niki Haris, American dancer
* 1948 -
Muse Watson, American actor
*
1950 -
Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
* 1950 -
Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
*
1951 -
Jeff Rawle, English actor
*
1953 -
Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
* 1953 -
Thomas Friedman, American journalist
*
1954 -
Moira Harris, American actress
*
1956 -
Paul Cook, English musician (
The Sex Pistols)
* 1956 -
Donna Dixon, American actress
*
1959 -
Radney Foster, American singer
*
1963 -
Frank Whaley, American actor
* 1963 -
Amir Derakh, American guitarist (
Orgy)
*
1964 -
Chris Cornell, American musician
* 1964 -
Terri Irwin, American television personality
* 1964 -
Kool G. Rap, American musician
* 1966 -
Stone Gossard, American musician
*
1967 -
Reed Diamond, American actor
*
1968 -
Michael Park, American actor
* 1968 -
Jimmy Carson, American
NHL ice hockey player
* 1968 -
Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
*
1969 -
Josh Holloway, American actor
* 1969 -
Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist
*
1971 -
Charles Johnson, baseball player
*
1973 -
Peter Forsberg, Swedish-born hockey player
* 1973 -
Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway* 1973 -
Claudio Reyna, American soccer player
*
1974 -
Simon Rex, American actor
* 1974 -
Bengie Molina, American baseball player
*
1975 -
Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
*
1977 -
Kiki Musampa, Congo footballer
* 1977 -
Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
*
1978 -
Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete
* 1978 -
Charlie Korsmo, American actor
* 1978 -
Elliott Yamin,
American Idol contestant
*
1980 -
Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian model
* 1980 -
Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (
The All-American Rejects)
*
1981 -
Thorsten Engelmann, German rower
*
1985 -
John Francis Daley, American actor
*
1997 -
Billi Bruno, American child actress
*
985 -
Pope Boniface VII*
1031 - King
Robert II of France (b.
972)
*
1156 -
Emperor Toba of Japan (
1103)
*
1160 -
Peter Lombard, French theologian
*
1320 - King
Oshin of Armenia (b.
1282)
*
1351 -
Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b.
1291)
*
1387 -
Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b.
1356)
*
1398 -
Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b.
1374)
*
1453 -
Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
*
1454 - King
John II of Castile (b.
1405)
*
1524 -
Claude of France, wife of
Louis XII of France (b.
1499)
*
1616 -
Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, English soldier
*
1704 -
Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b.
1620)
*
1752 -
Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b.
1667)
*
1816 -
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b.
1743)
*
1866 -
Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b.
1826)
*
1870 -
Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b.
1830)
*
1884 -
Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and scientist (b.
1822)
*
1897 -
Jean Ingelow, English poet (b.
1820)
*
1901 -
William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b.
1840)
*
1903 -
Pope Leo XIII (b.
1810)
*
1908 -
Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b.
1835)
*
1922 -
Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b.
1856)
*
1923 -
Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b.
1878)
*
1926 -
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b.
1877)
*
1927 - King
Ferdinand of Romania (b.
1865)
*
1937 -
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics (b.
1874)
*
1941 -
Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b.
1867)
*
1944 -
Mildred Harris, American actress (b.
1901)
*
1945 -
Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b.
1871)
*
1951 - King
Abdullah I of Jordan (b.
1882)
* 1951 -
Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b.
1882)
*
1953 -
Dumarsaid Estime,
President of Haiti (b.
1900)
* 1953 -
Jan Struther, British author (b.
1901)
*
1959 -
William D. Leahy, American admiral (b.
1875)
*
1967 -
Albert Lutuli, South African civil rights leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize*
1973 -
Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b.
1940)
*
1982 -
Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b.
1931)
*
1983 -
Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b.
1923)
*
1990 -
Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving
police chief (b.
1907)
*
1991 -
Earl Robinson, American singer and composer (b.
1910)
*
1993 -
Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b.
1945)
*
1997 -
John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b.
1949)
*
1999 -
Sandra Gould, American actress (b.
1916)
*
2003 -
Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b.
1927)
*
2004 -
Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of
Kamisese Mara (b.
1931)
*
2005 -
James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b.
1920)
* 2005 -
Charles Chibitty, World War II Comanche code talker (b.
1921)
* 2005 -
Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b.
1926)
* 2005 -
Kayo Hatta, American film director (b.
1958)
* 2005 -
Alfred Hayes, British-born wrestling announcer (b.
1928)
*
2006 -
Gérard Oury French filmmaker (b.
1919)
* International
chess day
*
Colombia -
Independence Day*
Japan -
Marine Day (Umi-no-hi, currently it falls on the third
Monday in
July.)
*
Northern Cyprus - Peace and Freedom Day
*
Argentina -
Día del Amigo (Friendship Day)
*
Brazil - Friendship Day
*Feast day for at least seventeen saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
**
Saint Aurelius**St.
Margaret of Antioch**St.
Wilgefortis**St.
Elias**St.
Barhadbesciabas**St.
Wulmar/Ulmar
**St.
Sabinus**St.
Severa1**St. Severa2**St. Flavian
**St. John of Pulsano
**St. Joseph of Barsabas
**St. Margaret
**St. Paul of St. Zoilus.
**St. Ceslas
**St. Jerome Aemiliani
**St. Justa
**St. Rufina* BBC: On This Day
* The New York Times: On This Day
* On This Day in Canada
* Epic Idiot: On This Day
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