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On July 20, 70: Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.

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Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.

AD 70 (LXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vespasian and Titus. The denomination AD 70 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

People

Born on July 20

Álex Baena 2001– Spanish footballer (born 2001)
Pop Smoke 1999– American rapper (1999–2020)
Ben Simmons 1996– Australian basketball player (born 1996)
Moses Leota 1995– New Zealand and Samoa international rugby league footballer
Steven Adams 1993– New Zealand basketball player (born 1993)
Nick Cousins 1993– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)
Chiyoshōma Fujio 1991– Mongolian sumo wrestler
Ryan James 1991– Australian rugby league footballer
Kira Kazantsev 1991– American beauty pageant contestant (born 1991)
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Philipp Reiter 1991– German ski mountaineer and runner
Tawan Vihokratana 1991– Thai actor, model and host (born 1991)
Lars Unnerstall 1990– German footballer (born 1990)
Javier Cortés 1989– Mexican footballer (born 1989)
Cristian Pasquato 1989– Italian footballer (born 1989)
Julianne Hough 1988– American dancer and actress (born 1988)
Stephen Strasburg 1988– American baseball pitcher (born 1988)
Shahram Mahmoudi 1988– Iranian volleyball player
Nicola Benedetti 1987– Scottish violinist (born 1987)

People

Died on July 20

Malcolm-Jamal Warner American actor (1970–2025)
Jerry Miller American musician (1943–2024)
Jill Schary Robinson American novelist (1936–2024)
Michael Brooks American talk show host (1983–2020)
Chester Bennington American singer (1976–2017)
Radu Beligan Romanian actor (1918–2016)
Wayne Carson American singer-songwriter
Fred Else English footballer and manager
Dieter Moebius Musical artist
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Victor G. Atiyeh American politician (1923–2014)
Constantin Lucaci Romanian contemporary sculptor
Bob McNamara American gridiron football player (1931–2014)
Klaus Schmidt German archaeologist
Pierre Fabre French pharmaceutical and cosmetics executive and pharmacist
Khurshed Alam Khan Indian politician (1919–2013)
Augustus Rowe Canadian physician and politician (1920–2013)
Helen Thomas American journalist (1920–2013)
Alastair Burnet British journalist

Timeline

Every July 20 on record

  1. 70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.

    Calendar year

    AD 70 (LXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vespasian and Titus. The denomination AD 70 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 792 Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae.

    Khan of Bulgaria from 777 to 803

    Kardam was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire.

  3. 911 Rollo lays siege to Chartres.

    Calendar year

    911 (CMXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

  4. 1189 Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy.

    King of England from 1189 to 1199

    Richard I, known as Richard the Lionheart or Richard Cœur de Lion because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes; and was overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was the third of five sons of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and was therefore not expected to become king, but his two elder brothers predeceased their father.

  5. 1230 Treaty of San Germano is signed at San Germano between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX. A Dominican named Guala is responsible for the negotiations.

    1230 treaty between the Holy Roman Empire and the papacy

    The Treaty of San Germano was signed on 23 July 1230 at San Germano, present-day Cassino, ending the War of the Keys that had begun in 1228. The parties were Pope Gregory IX and Frederick II, king of Sicily and Holy Roman emperor. On 28 August at Ceprano, the peace was finalized with the readmission of the excommunicated Frederick into the church.

  6. 1398 The Battle of Kellistown was fought on this day between the forces of the English led by Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March against the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles under the command of Art Óg mac Murchadha Caomhánach, the most powerful Chieftain in Leinster.
  7. 1592 During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it.
  8. 1705 A fire in Oulu, Finland almost completely destroyed the fourth district, which covered the southern part of the city and was by far the largest of the city districts.
  9. 1715 Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Empire captures Nauplia, the capital of the Republic of Venice's "Kingdom of the Morea", thereby opening the way to the swift Ottoman reconquest of the Morea.
  10. 1738 Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
  11. 1799 Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.
  12. 1807 Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
  13. 1810 Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
  14. 1831 Seneca and Shawnee people agree to relinquish their land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River.
  15. 1848 The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
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  1. 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
  2. 1866 Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
  3. 1871 British Columbia joins the Canadian Confederation.
  4. 1885 The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
  5. 1903 The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
  6. 1906 In Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing the country the first and equal right to vote in the world. Finnish women are the first in Europe to receive the right to vote.
  7. 1917 World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
  8. 1920 The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
  9. 1922 The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
  10. 1932 In the Preußenschlag, German President Hindenburg places Prussia directly under the rule of the national government.
  11. 1934 Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
  12. 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
  13. 1935 Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
  14. 1936 The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
  15. 1938 The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.

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