On This Day:
Sunday July 20, 2014 This is the 201st day of the year, with 164 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: bees Bees and the flowers they pollinate evolved simultaneously and their value as pollinators is much greater than their value for honey and wax production. The flavor and color of honey is determined by the flowers from which the nectar is gathered.
Holidays Feast day of St. Margaret of Antioch, St. Elias of Jerusalem, St. Ansegisus, St. Aurelius of Carthage, St. Flavian of Antioch, St. Wulmar, St. Gregory Lopez, St. Wilgefortis or Liberata, and St. Joseph Barsabas the Just.
Colombia: Independence Day.
Japan: Marine Day.
Events 1810 - Colombia declared its independence from Spain.
1861 - The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, Virginia.
1871 - British Columbia entered Confederation as a Canadian province.
1881 - Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.
1917 - The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
1940 - "Billboard" magazine published its first "Top Ten Singles" record chart.
1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters only wounded the Nazi leader.
1968 - During a BBC radio interview, actress Jane Asher announced that her engagement to Beatle Paul McCartney was off; he was not the first to find out.
1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon.
1976 - America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars.
1990 - An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the International Stock Exchange in London.
1992 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
2001 - The 27th annual G8 summit opens in Genoa, Italy.
Births 1304 - Petrarch, Italian poet.
1591 - Anne Hutchinson, religious liberal, one of the founders of Rhode Island.
1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand-born explorer, first to climb Mt. Everest.
1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress.
1942 - T. G. Sheppard (born Billy Neal Browder), American country singer.
1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican-born Latin rock musician and guitarist.
1953 - Thomas Friedman, American journalist.
1964 - Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle), American musician and singer.
Deaths 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary.
1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor of the wireless telegraph.
1951 - King Abdullah of Jordan, assassinated by a Palestinian nationalist.
1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African civil rights leader, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize.
1973 - Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor and martial artist.
2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor, as the chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures.
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