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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

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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