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
- 1738 –Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
- 1807 –Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
- 1810 –Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
- 1871 –British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
- 1903 –The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
- 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 –1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
- 1951 –King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1985 –The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
- 1992 –Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
- 1999 –Falun Gong is banned in the People’s Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched.
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