July 20

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[edit] Events

• 1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
• 1922 - The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
• 1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
• 1937 - Two black men who stabbed a policeman are taken by a mob from the county jail in Tallahassee, Florida and lynched.
• 1944 - World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
• 1948 - In New York City, twelve leaders of the Communist Party USA are indicted under the Smith Act including William Z. Foster and Gus Hall.
• 1969 - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 space mission land on the Moon.

[edit] Births

• 356 BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian king and military leader (d. 323 BC)
• 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber (d. 2008)
• 1925 - Frantz Fanon, Black radical philosopher (d. 1961)
• 1948 - Terry Tremaine, founder of the National Socialist Party of Canada.
• 1961 - Wayne Allyn Root, American politician

[edit] Deaths

• 1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972)
• 2006 - Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)