Daily Calendar for July 20th, 2018

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1300s

• Born 1304: Petrarch (poet)

• 1304: Edward I of England took the last rebel stronghold in the Wars of Scottish Independence

1590s

• 1591: Religious leader Anne Hutchinson was baptized

1810s

• 1810: Colombia declared independence from Spain

1870s

• 1871: British Columbia joined the Canadian Confederation

• 1875: Connecticut state agricultural experiment station established

1890s

• 1893: The U.S.S. Machias, first steel-hulled ship built in Maine, commissioned

1900s

• 1900: Eleanor Annie Lamson was the first woman astronomer employed at the U.S. Naval Observatory

1910s

• Born 1919: Sir Edmund Hillary (one of the first to summit Mt. Everest)

1930s

• Born 1938: Natalie Wood (actress)

1940s

• 1942: Legion of Merit established

• Born 1947: Carlos Santana (musician)

1960s

• 1968: The first International Special Olympics held, Chicago, Illinois

• 1969: Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the Moon. He also placed the U.S. flag there.

• Born 1969: Josh Holloway (actor)

1970s

• Died 1973: Bruce Lee (actor & martial artist)

• 1976: Hank Aaron hit his 755th home run

• 1976: Viking 1, U.S. robot spacecraft, landed on Mars

• Born 1978: Elliott Yamin (singer)

1980s

• Born 1980: Gisele Bundchen (model)

• 1985: Mel Fisher's crew found sunken Atocha off Florida coast, loaded with silver, gold, and emeralds

2000s

• Died 2005: James Montgomery Doohan (actor, linguist)

• Died 2007: Tammy Faye Messner