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| July 20th |
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| About July 20th is the 201st day of the year (202nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 164 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. Births 1918 - Cindy Walker, country music singer, songwriter 1919 - Edmund Hillary, mountaineer, explorer 1932 - Dan Rooney, Hall of Fame football owner 1936 - Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator (Maryland) 1958 - Billy Mays, infomercial salesman (OxiClean, Orange Glo) 1971 - Sandra Oh, actress (Grey's Anatomy, Sideways) 1973 - Omar Epps, actor, musician (Love and Basketball, House) 1980 - Gisele Bündchen, model, actress Deaths 1959 - William D. Leahy, FDR's Chief of Staff during WWII 1973 - Bruce Lee, actor, martial artist (Fist of Fury) 1993 - Vince Foster, former counsel to the White House 2007 - Tammy Faye Messner, singer, evangelist, entrepreneur Events 1940 - "I'll Never Smile Again", a song sung by Frank Sinatra takes the #1 spot on the initial Billboard pop charts. 1944 - President Franklin D Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 1965 - "Like a Rolling Stone" is released by Bob Dylan and reaches Number 2 on the charts despite being over 6 minutes in length. 1969 - Aboard Apollo 11, the first men land on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. 1976 - The unmanned Viking I becomes the fist spacecraft to have a successful landing on the planet Mars. |
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