On This Day
20 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1965 Batukeshwar Dutt, Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter, died.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 0356 BCE Alexander the Great, the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, was born.
- 1919 Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist was born.
- 1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and electrical engineer, died. He is known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system.
- 1944 Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
- 1960 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
- 1969 Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon.
- ⭐ Significance
- Each year, July 20 is celebrated as the International Moon Day to mark the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission's landing on the moon.
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