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July 20/Events1
This page is to list events of [[July 20]] before [[1950]].

==To 1300==
*[[514]] - [[Roman Catholic Church]]: [[Pope Hormisdas]] assumes the papacy.
==1300-1899==
*[[1304]] - [[Great Britain]]: [[Edward I of England]] takes the last rebel stronghold in the [[Wars of Scottish Independence]], [[Fall of Stirling Castle|Stirling Castle]]. 
*[[1712]] - [[United Kingdom]]:  The [[Riot Act]] takes effect.
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*[[1941]] - [[Baseball]]:  In [[Detroit, Michigan]], the [[New York Yankees]] beat the [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] 12-6 in a marathon seventeen inning game.
*[[1942]] - [[World War II]]:  The first unit of the [[Women's Army Corps]] begins training in [[Des Moines, Iowa]].
*[[1942]] - [[World War II]]:  [[Red Army]] troops take [[bridgehead|bridgeheads]] over the [[Don 
River, Russia|Don River]] near [[Voronezh]].
*[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: The [[Royal Air Force]] attacks [[Fuka]]
*[[1942]] - [[United States]]:  The [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] by a vote of 392-2 passes the largest tax increase in American history, $6.3 billion, and raises corporate tax rates to 90 percent.
*[[1943]] - [[World War II]]:  [[Red Army]] forces launch an attack on a 450 mile front from [[Taganrog]] to [[Orel]].
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*[[1949]] - [[United States]]:  [[Carmine DeSapio]] becomes leader of [[Tammany Hall]], the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] organization in [[New York City]].
*[[1949]] - [[Journalism]]:  Colonel [[Robert R. McCormick]] announces the purchase of the ''[[Washington Times-Herald]]'' by his paper, the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''.
*[[1949]] - [[United States]]:  President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs a bill to enable [[urban renewal]] and [[slum clearance]].

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==Births==
===1300-1899===
*[[1304]] - Francesco [[Petrarch]], Italian poet (d. [[1374]])
*[[1519]] - [[Pope Innocent IX]]
*[[1754]] - [[Destutt de Tracy]], philosopher
*[[1797]] - [[Paul Edmund Strzelecki|Sir Pawe&#322; Edmund Strzelecki]], [[Poland|Polish]] explorer and geologist (d. [[1873]])
*[[1838]] - [[George Otto Trevelyan]], British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
*1838- [[Augustin Daly]], American playwright (d. [[1899]])
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*Facts on File's ''Day by Day'' series
*''Encyclopaedia Brittanica Yearbook'', various years
*[http://www.imdb.com/OnThisDay?day=20&month=July Internet Movie Database July 20 in Movie History page]
*''The [[New York Times]],'' July 21st issues of various years
*[http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html ''The New York Times'' On This Day site]