July 20 - This Day in History

July 20 : General Interest
1969: Armstrong walks on moon

At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: "That's one small step for man... read more


American Revolution
1780 : Mad Anthony Wayne loses to Loyalists in New Jersey
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mad-anthony-wayne-loses-to-loyalists-in-new-jersey


Automotive
1972 : U.S. government study disputes Nader's charges against Corvair
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-government-study-disputes-naders-charges-against-corvair


Civil War
1864 : Confederates attack at the Battle of Peachtree Creek
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-peachtree-creek


Cold War
1948 : Truman issues peacetime draft
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-issues-peacetime-draft


Crime
1984 : A serial-killing couple is apprehended
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-serial-killing-couple-is-apprehended

2012 : 12 people killed, 70 wounded in Colorado movie theater shooting
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/12-people-killed-70-wounded-in-colorado-movie-theater-shooting


Disaster
1977 : Second great flood hits Johnstown
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/second-great-flood-hits-johnstown


General Interest
1881 : Sitting Bull surrenders
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sitting-bull-surrenders

1951 : King of Jordan assassinated
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-of-jordan-assassinated

1976 : Viking 1 lands on Mars
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/iviking-1i-lands-on-mars


Hollywood
1973 : Bruce Lee dies at age 32
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bruce-lee-dies-at-age-32


Literary
1933 : Acclaimed author Cormac McCarthy is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/acclaimed-author-cormac-mccarthy-is-born


Music
1963 : Jan and Dean's "Surf City" hits #1
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jan-and-deans-quotsurf-cityquot-hits-1


Old West
1889 : Homesteaders murdered by Wyoming ranchers
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/homesteaders-murdered-by-wyoming-ranchers


Presidential
1969 : Nixon watches first lunar landing
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-watches-first-lunar-landing


Sports
1919 : Sir Edmund Hillary born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sir-edmund-hillary-born


Vietnam War
1964 : Viet Cong troops overrun town
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/viet-cong-troops-overrun-town

1969 : Duck Hook plan completed
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/duck-hook-plan-completed


World War I
1914 : Caillaux trial begins in Paris
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/caillaux-trial-begins-in-paris


World War II
1944 : Assassination plot against Hitler fails
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/assassination-plot-against-hitler-fails