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