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

  • 911 –
    Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
  • 1304 –
    Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle – King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
  • 1402 –
    Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara – Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
  • 1738 –
    Canadian 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.
  • 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.
  • 1922 –
    The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1941 –
    Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
  • 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.
  • 1960 –
    The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
  • 1961 –
    French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
  • 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).
  • 1968 –
    The first Special Olympics is held.
  • 1969 –
    A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the “Football War”.
  • 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.

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