About July 20
July 20, 2025 is the 201st 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.
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Cancer is the sun 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.
What Happened On July 20
- 1304 –Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle – King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
- 1810 –Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
- 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.
- 1903 –The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
- 1922 –The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
- 1934 –Labor unrest in the U.S.: as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
- 1935 –Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
- 1940 –Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
- 1944 –World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
- 1949 –Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
- 1951 –King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
- 1954 –Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany’s secret service, defects to East Germany.
- 1969 –A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the “Football War”.
- 1974 –Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'etat, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
- 1976 –The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- 1977 –Johnstown, Pennsylvania 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.
- 1985 –The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
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