On This Day July 20th

  OTD

July 20th is the one-hundred-ninety-ninth day of the year, and there are 164 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.

1592 – During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it.

1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.

1807 – Napoleon awards Nicéphore Niépce a patent for the Pyrophore, the world's first internal combustion engine after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saone in France.

1871 – British Columbia joins the Confederation of Canada.

1885 – The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.

1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.

1938—The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry, charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act regarding the studio system. The case eventually resulted in the industry's breakup in 1948.

1940 – California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.

1969—Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully made the first human landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.

1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.

2015 – The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.

 

Birthdays

682 – Taichō, Japanese monk and scholar (d. 767)

1754 – Antoine Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher and academic (d. 1836)

1847 – Max Liebermann, German painter and academic (d. 1935)

1877 – Tom Crean, Irish sailor, and explorer (d. 1938)

1893 – George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier. One of the inspirations for Peter Pan (d. 1915)

1919 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)

1930 – Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)

1964 – Terri Irwin, American-Australian zoologist, and author

 

 

Highlighted Holiday

MOON DAY

On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin made history by becoming the first humans to land on the Moon. President John F. Kennedy had announced the Apollo 11 mission eight years earlier with the goal of sending a man to the moon by the end of the 1960s. The spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16 and entered lunar orbit three days later. Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the lunar surface in the lunar module, Eagle, with Armstrong delivering his historic message to Mission Control: "The Eagle has landed." Later, Armstrong uttered his famous words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

 

Holidays And Observance.

Fortune Cookie Day

International Cake Day

International Chess Day

Moon Day

Nap Day

National Bridal Sale Day

National Ice Cream Soda Day

National Lollipop Day

National Ugly Truck Contest Day

National Woodie Wagon Day

Space Exploration Day

Strawberry Rhubarb Wine Day

Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day

Women's Dive Day

World Jump Day

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