July 20 is:
Moon Day
Ugly Truck Day
National Lollipop Day
Fortune Cookie Day
Feast day of Saint Margaret; patron saint of all women in childbirth.
Birthday of Alexander the Great (356 BC), Macedonian king.
Birthday of Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304), commonly called “Petrarch”, Italian scholar and poet. He rediscovered Cicero’s letters and is often credited with initiating the Renaissance.
Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reached the western shore of Lake Michigan in 1738.
Nicéphore Niépce was awarded a patent by Napoleon in 1807 for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
Birthday of Gregor Mendel (1822), Czech geneticist.
British Columbia joined the confederation of Canada in 1871.
Sitting Bull, Sioux Indian chief ,surrendered to Major David H. Brotherton, commanding officer of Fort Buford, North Dakota . See History.com for 10 things you may not know about Sitting Bull.
Birthday of Edmund Hillary (1919), New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
World War II: Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
July 20, 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 successfully made the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon almost 7 hours later. (US Time). Surely one of the most significant events of history in our lifetime.