At the moment is Sunday, July 20, the 201st day of 2025. There are 164 days left within the yr.
At the moment in historical past:
On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin turned the primary males to stroll on the moon after reaching its floor of their Apollo 11 lunar module.
Additionally on this date:
In 1917, America’s World Warfare I draft lottery started as Secretary of Warfare Newton Baker, sporting a blindfold, reached right into a glass bowl and pulled out a capsule containing the quantity 258 throughout a ceremony contained in the Senate workplace constructing.
In 1944, an try by a bunch of German officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed because the explosion solely wounded the Nazi chief.
In 1951, Jordan’s King Abdullah I used to be assassinated in Jerusalem by a Palestinian gunman who was shot useless on the spot by safety.
In 1976, America’s Viking 1 robotic spacecraft made a profitable, first-ever touchdown on Mars.
In 1977, a flash flood hit Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing greater than 80 folks and inflicting $350 million price of injury.
In 1990, Supreme Court docket Justice William J. Brennan, one of many courtroom’s most liberal voices, introduced he was stepping down.
In 1993, White Home deputy counsel Vincent Foster Jr., 48, was discovered shot to dying in a park close to Washington, D.C.; it was dominated a suicide.
In 2006, the Senate voted 98-0 to resume the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act for one more quarter-century.
In 2007, President George W. Bush signed an government order prohibiting merciless and inhuman remedy, together with humiliation or denigration of non secular beliefs, within the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects.
In 2012, gunman James Holmes opened fireplace inside a crowded movie show in Aurora, Colorado, throughout a midnight exhibiting of “The Dark Knight Rises,” killing 12 folks and wounding 70 others. (Holmes was later convicted of homicide and tried homicide, and sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole.)
In 2015, the US and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations after greater than 5 a long time of frosty relations rooted within the Chilly Warfare.
At the moment’s Birthdays:
- Former Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., is 89.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Tony Oliva is 87.
- Artist Judy Chicago is 86.
- Nation singer T.G. Sheppard is 81.
- Singer Kim Carnes is 80.
- Rock musician Carlos Santana is 78.
- Writer and commentator Thomas Friedman is 72.
- Rock musician Paul Cook dinner (Intercourse Pistols) is 69.
- Actor Frank Whaley is 62.
- Conservationist and TV character Terri Irwin is 61.
- Rock musician Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) is 59.
- Actor Josh Holloway (TV: “Lost”) is 56.
- Singer Vitamin C is 56.
- Actor Sandra Oh is 54.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Peter Forsberg is 52.
- Actor Omar Epps is 52.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Ray Allen is 50.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Pavel Datsyuk is 47.
- Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is 45.
- Actor Percy Daggs III is 43.
- Actor John Francis Daley is 40.
- Dancer-singer-actor Julianne Hough is 37.
- Former MLB pitcher Stephen Strasburg is 37.
