calendar page - What happened on July 20th?
Current Calendar Page for July 20, 2024
Birthdays
Margareta, Wilmar
Historical Data
1989 - Myanmar opposition politician and later Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest by the military regime for the first time in Yangon.
1974 - Turkish troops land in the north of Cyprus on July 15. The island has been divided since then.
1969 - During the "Apollo 11" mission, the spacecraft "Eagle" lands on the moon. Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the lunar surface.
1954 - Otto John, the first President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, escapes to East Germany. It has not been definitively determined whether this step was voluntary or if John, as he himself claimed, was kidnapped. John returns to West Germany a year later and is sentenced to four years in prison.
1944 - The bombing attempt by the resistance group around Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg on Adolf Hitler fails. The coup against the National Socialist regime fails, and the plotters are executed.
Birthdays
1999 - Princess Alexandra of Hanover (25), daughter of Princess Caroline and Ernst August Prince of Hanover
1996 - Waldemar Anton (28), German football player (VfB Stuttgart), in the squad for the European Championship 2024
1944 - Yoram Ben-Zeev (80), Israeli diplomat, Ambassador to Germany 2007-2011
1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer ("Jahrestage", "Conjectures about Jakob"), deceased 1984
Deaths
2014 - Manfred Sexauer, German radio and television presenter ("Beat-Club"), born 1930
Aung San Suu Kyi spent her first house arrest period in Yangon, Myanmar, on this very day in 1989, marked on the currentCalendar Page.
Independence for Cyprus has been elusive since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded the northern part of the island on this date.
Otto John, the first head of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, found himself in an unexpected situation on this day in 1954, when he fled to East Germany.
History has many memorable events tied to July 20, including the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944, which took place on the Deathbeds of several plotters.
