1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date. 1587 - A second English colony was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The colony vanished under mysterious circumstances. 1796 - Cleveland was founded by General Moses Cleaveland. 1798 - The USS Constitution was underway and out to sea for the first time since being launched on October 21, 1797. 1812 - English troops under the Duke of Wellington defeated the French at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain. 1926 - Babe Ruth caught a baseball at Mitchell Field in New York. The ball had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet. 1933 - Wiley Post ended his around-the-world flight. He had traveled 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. 1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. 1943 - American forces led by General George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily. 1941 - Plans for the Pentagon were presented to the House Subcommittee on Appropriations. 1955 - U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington,DC. It was the first time that a Vice-President had carried out the task. 1965 - "Till Death Us Do Part" debuted on England’s BBC-TV. 1975 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee had his U.S. citizenship restored by the U.S. Congress. 1987 - The U.S. began its policy of escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers up and down the Persian Gulf to protect them from possible attack by Iran. 1998 - Iran tested medium-range missile, capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia. 2000 - Astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that they had found a 17th moon orbiting Jupiter. 2003 - In northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai died after a gunfight with U.S. forces. 2003 - In Paris, France, a fire broke out near the top of the Eiffel Tower. About 4,000 visitors were evacuated and no injuries were reported. 2004 - The September 11 commission's final report was released. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government." The report was released to White House officials the day before. 2009 - The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurred over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean. 2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis landed successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135. It was the final flight of NASA's space shuttle program. |
This Day in History for 20th July
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100
514 - St Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus
1031 - Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.
1402 - Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur' beats Sultan Bajezid I's Ottoman forces
1495 - French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders
1498 - Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands
1553 - John Dudley, Lord President of the Council under Edward VI, captured in Cambridge
1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
1619 - Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle [OS=June 10]
1654 - Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control
1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
1738 - North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
1749 - Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"
1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1801 - Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm
1808 - Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
1810 - Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain.
1836 - Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
Naturalist Charles Darwin
1847 - German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf
1849 - Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield
1855 - 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands
1858 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1858 - Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour
1861 - Confederate states' congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va
1862 - Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866
1864 - Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1864 - Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
1866 - Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy
1868 - 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1876 - 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1877 - Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1878 - 2nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Hadow beats S Gore (7-5- 6-1 9-7)
1881 - Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops
1890 - "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing
1890 - Snow & hail in Calais, Maine
1893 - 10th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats B Hillyard (6-8 6-1 6-4)
1893 - 17th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (3-6 6-1 6-3 6-2)
1894 - 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1901 - Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco's frontier with Algeria, a French colony
1903 - Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X, known as the 'pope of the poor and humble'
1906 - Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0
1907 - A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more.
1910 - Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1911 - Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1911 - Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
1912 - Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
1913 - Turkish troops take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria
1914 - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
1916 - Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds
1917 - Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats & Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1917 - WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1918 - World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
1920 - Heerenveen soccer team forms
1921 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.
1922 - Togo made a mandate of League of Nations
1923 - Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2
1924 - Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris
1924 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1925 - Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1925 - Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie
1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh
1927 - Charles Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis)
1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians.
1930 - 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record)
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.
1933 - Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
1933 - Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets.
1934 - 118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
1935 - 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio
1935 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1938 - Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1940 - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1940 - Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist
1940 - Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey)
1941 - Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
Dictator of Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler
1942 - 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
1942 - Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
1942 - Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress
1942 - Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
1943 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz over the landing on Gilbert Island
1944 - British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
1944 - Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
1944 - Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre
1944 - Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
1944 - Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen
1944 - Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau
1944 - General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy
1944 - Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
1944 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack
1944 - Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1944 - US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention
1944 - US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
1944 - US 9th Air Force bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
Events 1 - 100
514 - St Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus
1031 - Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.
1402 - Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur' beats Sultan Bajezid I's Ottoman forces
1495 - French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders
1498 - Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands
1553 - John Dudley, Lord President of the Council under Edward VI, captured in Cambridge
1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
1619 - Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle [OS=June 10]
1654 - Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control
1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
1738 - North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
1749 - Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"
1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1801 - Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm
1808 - Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
1810 - Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain.
1836 - Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
1031 - Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.
1402 - Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur' beats Sultan Bajezid I's Ottoman forces
1495 - French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders
1498 - Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands
1553 - John Dudley, Lord President of the Council under Edward VI, captured in Cambridge
1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
1619 - Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle [OS=June 10]
1654 - Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control
1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
1738 - North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
1749 - Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"
1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1801 - Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm
1808 - Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
1810 - Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain.
1836 - Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
Naturalist Charles Darwin
1847 - German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf1849 - Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield
1855 - 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands
1858 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1858 - Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour
1861 - Confederate states' congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va
1862 - Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866
1864 - Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1864 - Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
1866 - Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy
1868 - 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1876 - 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1877 - Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1878 - 2nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Hadow beats S Gore (7-5- 6-1 9-7)
1881 - Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops
1890 - "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing
1890 - Snow & hail in Calais, Maine
1893 - 10th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats B Hillyard (6-8 6-1 6-4)
1893 - 17th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (3-6 6-1 6-3 6-2)
1894 - 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1901 - Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco's frontier with Algeria, a French colony
1903 - Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X, known as the 'pope of the poor and humble'
1906 - Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0
1907 - A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more.
1910 - Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1911 - Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1911 - Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
1912 - Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
1913 - Turkish troops take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria
1914 - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
1916 - Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds
1917 - Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats & Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1917 - WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1918 - World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
1920 - Heerenveen soccer team forms
1921 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.
1922 - Togo made a mandate of League of Nations
1923 - Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2
1924 - Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris
1924 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1925 - Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1925 - Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie
1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh
1927 - Charles Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis)1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians.
1930 - 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record)
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.
1933 - Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
1933 - Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets.
1934 - 118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
1935 - 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio
1935 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1938 - Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1940 - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1940 - Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist
1940 - Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey)
1941 - Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
Dictator of Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler
1942 - 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training1942 - Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
1942 - Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress
1942 - Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
1943 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz over the landing on Gilbert Island
1944 - British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
1944 - Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
1944 - Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre
1944 - Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
1944 - Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen
1944 - Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau
1944 - General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy
1944 - Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
1944 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack
1944 - Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1944 - US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention1944 - US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
1944 - US 9th Air Force bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
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