July 20<\/p>\n
356BC \u2013 Alexander the Great is born in Pella, Macedon.<\/p>\n
70 \u2013 Titus’ Roman army storms the Fortress Antonia north of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
1189 \u2013 Richard the Lionheart of England is officially invested as Duke of Normandy.<\/p>\n
1738 \u2013 Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La V\u00e9rendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n
1810 \u2013 Citizens of Bogot\u00e1, New Granada (now Colombia) declare independence from Spain.<\/p>\n
1831 \u2013 The Seneca and Shawnee tribes agree to cede land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman at Peach Tree Hill near Atlanta<\/p>\n
1903 \u2013 The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.<\/p>\n
1923 \u2013Jos\u00e9 ‘Pancho Villa’ Ar\u00e1mbula, is killed by a group of 7 assassins in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico<\/p>\n
1940 \u2013 California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.<\/p>\n
1944 \u2013 Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.<\/p>\n
1950 \u2013 In Federal Court held in Philadelphia , Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying, by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs to the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
1960 \u2013 The Polaris submarine launched ballistic missile – SLBM – is successfully launched from the USS George Washington<\/em><\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 At 20:17:40 UTC,\u00a0 Apollo 11’s Lunar Module, Eagle<\/em>, piloted by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin makes the first manned landing on the Moon at Lunar coordinates 00\u00b041\u203215\u2033N 23\u00b026\u203200\u2033E, in the Sea of Tranquility, becoming Tranquility Base<\/em><\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 The Viking 1<\/em> probe successfully lands on Mars.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Heavy rain in Cambria County, Pennsylvania overtops 6 dams which fail which causes a flash flood through the Conemaugh River Valley, killing 84 people in several towns and cities.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 Vince Foster reportedly commits suicide in Fort Marcy Park, Fairfax County Virginia<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 The Navy celebrates the 200th birthday of the fully restored USS Constitution<\/em> by setting sail on it for the first time in 116 years.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 James Holmes, later sentenced to 12 consecutive life terms plus 3318 years without parole, opens fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 70 others.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 17 government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after 5 decades.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 O. J. Simpson is granted parole from prison after serving 9 years of a 33 year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 American businessman Jeff Bezos flies aboard New Shepard NS-16<\/em> operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 20 356BC \u2013 Alexander the Great is born in Pella, Macedon. 70 \u2013 Titus’ Roman army storms the Fortress Antonia north of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. 1189 \u2013 Richard the Lionheart of England is officially invested as Duke of Normandy. 1738 \u2013 Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La V\u00e9rendrye reaches … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57125"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94536,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125\/revisions\/94536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}