July 20, UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts a resolution demanding that Israel stop and reverse construction of wall built in the West Bank.

1944 – Assassination plot against Nazi leader Adolf Hitler fails.

1954 – The Geneva Agreements (also, “Geneva Accords”) arranged a settlement which brought about an end to the First Indochina War.
1969 – Apollo 11 began the first lunar landing mission.

1974 – Turkish army invades northern side of Cypress.

2002 – Sudan government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) sign a peace framework agreement in Kenya.

2004 – UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts a resolution demanding that Israel stop and reverse construction of the wall built in the West Bank.

2014 – More than 70 Palestinians killed in al-Shujaya massacre which the Israeli forces perpetrated during its war on Gaza.

Born Today:

1864 – Swedish Poet and Nobel Laureate Erik Axel Karlfeldt.

Passed away:

1937 – Italian physicist and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi.

Occasions:

Independence Day in Colombia.

H. Zain/ Barry