Public Holidays on July 20

• 🌍 Declaration of Independence (Colombia)
• 🌍 Día de la Independencia (Colombia)
• 🌍 Marine Day (Japan)
• 🌍 海の日 (Japan)

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On This Day in History — July 20

• 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.
• 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.
• 2015 — The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
• 2013 — Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
• 2012 — James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.
• 2005 — Canada legalized same-sex marriage, being the fourth country in the world to do so.

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Notable Births on July 20

• 1996 — Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player
• 1995 — Moses Leota, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1993 — Steven Adams, New Zealand basketball player
• 1991 — Chiyoshōma Fujio, Mongolian sumo wrestler
• 1991 — Ryan James, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 — Philipp Reiter, German mountaineer and runner

Notable Deaths on July 20

• 2017 — Chester Bennington, American singer (b. 1976)
• 2016 — Radu Beligan, Romanian actor, director, and essayist (b. 1918)
• 2015 — Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor and musician (b. 1924)
• 2015 — Wayne Carson, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1943)
• 2015 — Fred Else, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
• 2015 — Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (b. 1944)

Public Holidays on July 21

• 🌍 Belgian National Day (Belgium)
• 🌍 Nationale feestdag (Belgium)

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On This Day in History — July 21

• 2012 — Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
• 2011 — NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
• 2008 — Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
• 2005 — July 2005 London bombings occur.
• 2001 — At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes...
• 1995 — Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.

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Notable Births on July 21

• 1993 — Aaron Durley, American baseball player
• 1992 — Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
• 1990 — Chris Martin, English footballer
• 1990 — Jason Roy, English cricketer
• 1989 — Rory Culkin, American actor
• 1989 — Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer

Notable Deaths on July 21

• 2017 — John Heard, American film and television actor (b. 1946)
• 2016 — Dennis Green, American football player and coach (b. 1949)
• 2015 — Robert Broberg, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2015 — E. L. Doctorow, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1931)
• 2015 — Nicholas Gonzalez, American physician (b. 1947)
• 2015 — Czesław Marchaj, Polish-English sailor and academic (b. 1918)