{"id":22963,"date":"2020-07-20T04:57:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=22963"},"modified":"2020-07-17T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T11:39:11","slug":"history-of-20-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-20-july-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 20 July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1992 &#8211; Vaclav Havel, the playwright\nwho led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of\nCzechoslovakia.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; Russia won a $11.2 billion\nloan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its\ncurrency.<\/li><li>2003 &#8211; In India, elephants used for\ncommercial work began wearing reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during\nnight work. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2005\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Civil Marriage Act\u00a0legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada.<\/li><li>2012\u00a0\u2013\u00a0James Holmes\u00a0opened fire\u00a0at a movie theater in\u00a0Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.<\/li><li>2013\u00a0\u2013 Seventeen government soldiers are killed in\u00a0an attack\u00a0by\u00a0FARC\u00a0revolutionaries in the Colombian department of\u00a0Arauca.<\/li><li>2015\u00a0\u2013 A huge\u00a0explosion\u00a0in the mostly\u00a0Kurdish\u00a0border town of\u00a0Suru\u00e7, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.<\/li><li>2015 \u2013 The\u00a0United States\u00a0and\u00a0Cuba\u00a0resume full\u00a0diplomatic relations\u00a0after five decades.<\/li><li>2017\u00a0\u2013\u00a0O. J. Simpson\u00a0is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in\u00a0Las Vegas.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Viktoria Lad\u00f5nskaja, Estonian journalist and politician<\/li><li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Antoine Vermette, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li><li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Matt Gilroy, American ice hockey player<\/li><li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0John Francis Daley, American actor and screenwriter<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Harley Morenstein, Canadian actor and YouTube personality<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/July_20#cite_note-5\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0David Mundy, Australian footballer<\/li><li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Osric Chau, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter<\/li><li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nicola Benedetti, Scottish violinist<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/July_20#cite_note-6\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Niall McGinn, Irish footballer<\/li><li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Julianne Hough, American singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Stephen Strasburg, American baseball player<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Shahram Mahmoudi, Iranian volleyball player<\/li><li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Javier Cort\u00e9s, Mexican footballer<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Cristian Pasquato, Italian footballer<\/li><li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lars Unnerstall, German footballer<\/li><li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chiyosh\u014dma Fujio, Mongolian sumo wrestler<\/li><li>1991 \u2013\u00a0Ryan James, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1991 \u2013\u00a0Kira Kazantsev,\u00a0Miss America 2015<\/li><li>1991 \u2013\u00a0Philipp Reiter, German mountaineer and runner<\/li><li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Steven Adams, New Zealand basketball player<\/li><li>1995 \u2013 Moses Leota, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li><li>1996\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/July_20#cite_note-9\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1992 &#8211; Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia. 1998 &#8211; Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency. 2003 &#8211; In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing reflectors to avoid being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1328],"class_list":{"0":"post-22963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-20-july"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5Yn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22964,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963\/revisions\/22964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}