07-20-2007, 05:05 AM
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July 20th
1933 ~ In London, 500,000 marched against anti-Semitism.
1938 ~ Birthday of Dame Diana Rigg, Actress (The Avengers, In This House of Brede).
1938 ~ Birthday of Natalie Wood, Actress (Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story).
1944 ~ Adolf Hitler slightly wounded when a bomb exploded at his Rastenburg headquarters.
1946 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives voted 265-79 to put control of atomic energy in the hands of a civilian body, the Atomic Energy Commission, rather than leave the military in control.
1960 ~ Ceylon elected Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first female head of government.
1969 ~ Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon.
1974 ~ Turkey invaded Cyprus.
1999 ~ After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was lifted to the surface.
2004 ~ The UN General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that Israel tear down the barrier it was building to seal off the West Bank.
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