Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
July 20
| 1402 | Tamerlane's Mongols defeat Ottoman Turks at Angora. | |
| 1588 | The Spanish Armada sets sail from Corunna. | |
| 1715 | The Riot Act goes into effect in England. | |
| 1864 | Confederate General John Bell Hood attacks Union forces under General William T. Sherman outside Atlanta. | |
| 1867 | Imperial troops in Guizhou, China, kill 20,000 Miao rebels. | |
| 1881 | Sioux chief Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army. | |
| 1917 | Alexander Kerensky becomes the premier of Russia. | |
| 1942 | The U.S. Army Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) begins its first training class at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. | |
| 1944 | Adolf Hitler is wounded in an assassination attempt by German Army officers at Rastenburg. | |
| 1950 | The U.S. Army's Task Force Smith is pushed back by superior North Korean forces. | |
| 1951 | King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated. | |
| 1969 | Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon. | |
| 1976 | The Viking spacecraft lands on Mars and begins taking soil samples. | |
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| 1304 | Francisco Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar. | |
| 1591 | Anne Hutchinson, religious liberal, one of the founders of Rhode Island. | |
| 1850 | John Graves Shedd, president of Marshall Field and Company. | |
| 1919 | Edmund Hillary, New Zealand explorer. | |
| 1933 | Cormac McCarthy, novelist (All the Pretty Horses). | |
| 1939 | Judy Chicago, artist. | |
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