July 20
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Art and culture
- 1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
- 1903 - Ford Motor Company shipped its first car.
- 1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians.
- 1937 - Two black men accused of stabbing a policeman are taken by a mob from the county jail in Tallahassee, Florida and lynched.
- 1938 - The Justice Department files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of anti-trust law. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
- 1989 - Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
Births
- 356 BC - Alexander the Great, Greek king and military leader (d. 323 BC)
- 1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
- 1890 - Theda Bara, American actress (d. 1955)
- 1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
- 1925 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d. 1961)
- 1932 - Nam June Paik, Korean-born artist (d. 2006)
- 1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author
- 1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
Deaths
- 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
- 1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
Notes
* Larry Levan(born Lawrence Philpot, July 20, 1954 – died November 8, 1992) * Paul Delvaux(September 23, 1897 – July 20, 1994) was a Belgian surrealist painter,
- 1999 - Rules For the Human Zoospeech delivered by Peter Sloterdijk on July 20 1999 on the occasion of a symposium dedicated to the philosophy of Heidegger. ...
- 1954 - potlatch #5, bulletin of the french section of the lettrist international published
Germaine Dulac, born 17 November 1882 in Amiens, France, died 20 July 1942, was a French film director and early film theorist. ...
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