Today in History
20 July
228 births · 104 deaths · 68 events recorded
Notable Births
All 228 ›
Álex Baena
b. 2001
Spanish footballer (born 2001)
Pop Smoke
b. 1999
American rapper (1999–2020)
Ben Simmons
b. 1996
Australian basketball player (born 1996)
Moses Leota
b. 1995
New Zealand and Samoa international rugby league footballer
Steven Adams
b. 1993
New Zealand basketball player (born 1993)
Nick Cousins
b. 1993
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)
Chiyoshōma Fujio
b. 1991
Mongolian sumo wrestler
Kim Carnes
b. 1945
American singer and songwriter (born 1945)
Notable Deaths
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner
d. 2025
American actor (1970–2025)
Jerry Miller
d. 2024
American musician (1943–2024)
Jill Schary Robinson
d. 2024
American novelist (1936–2024)
Michael Brooks (political commentator)
d. 2020
American talk show host (1983–2020)
Chester Bennington
d. 2017
American singer (1976–2017)
Radu Beligan
d. 2016
Romanian actor (1918–2016)
Pancho Villa
d. 1923
Mexican revolutionary general and politician (1878–1923)
Bernhard Riemann
d. 1866
German mathematician (1826–1866)
On This Day in History
All 68 ›
2021
American businessman Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.
Jeff Bezos
2019
Soyuz MS-13 is launched to the International Space Station on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Soyuz MS-13
2017
O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.
O. J. Simpson
2015
A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.
Suruç bombing
2015
The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
United States
2013
Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
2013 Colombian clashes
2013
Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn ends with the expulsion of Islamist forces from the city by the People's Protection Units (YPG).
Syrian civil war
2012
James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.
James Holmes (mass murderer)