July 20th

July 20 is the 201st (201st) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 202nd in leap years. There are 164 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1221: The first stone of the Cathedral of Burgos is placed.
• 1230: In Cassino, Italy, the Treaty of Saint German was signed between Frederick II Hohenstaufen and Pope Gregory IX.
• 1378: in Italy the revolt of the Ciompi, the uprising of the workers of the textile sector in Florence explodes.
• 1402: In Turkey, Tamerlan defeats the Ottoman Sultan Bayazīd I in the battle of Ankara.
• 1500: In Spain, Isabel La Católica decrees, by means of a real cédula, that all the indigenous people who had kidnapped are returned to their lands of origin.
• 1700: in Spain, King Charles II grants the villazgo to Fuente Álamo de Murcia.
• 1754: In Spain, King Ferdinand VI replaced the Marquis of the Ensenada.
• 1807: In the port of New York (United States), engineer Robert Fulton performs the first test of his steamship.
• 1808: the army of the French invader José I Bonaparte enters Madrid (Spain). The people abstained from making demonstrations.
• 1810: In Santa Fe de Bogotá (capital of the New Kingdom of Granada, present Colombia) the first Greek of Independence occurs, these events were initiated by the incident of "El Florero de Llorente", or which begins the process that culminates in independence in 1819.
• 1810: Santa Rosa de Viterbo (Colombia) impacts a meteorite.
• 1816: The Flag of Argentina is adopted as an Argentinean patriotic symbol.
• 1819: reopening of the José Miguel Carrera National Institute under the government of Bernardo O'Higgins.
• 1857: Bishop José María Díaz Sanjurjo was murdered in Tonkín. This will give rise to the armed intervention of Spain, next to France, in the war of Cochinchina.
• 1871: British Columbia becomes Canadian territory.
• 1873: The central government of Spain, led by Nicolás Salmerón, issues a decree declaring pirates to all vessels of the Spanish Navy that had flooded the revolution of the self-proclaimed Canton of Cartagena, authorizing the foreign armed to capture them even in Spanish jurisdictional waters.
• 1885: In Canada, the rebel Louis Riel is tried for treason.
• 1900: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin makes the first flight aboard the balloon of his own name.
• 1903: in Macedonia the people are subdued against the Ottoman power.
• 1905: In Russia, the Assembly of the Russian nobility protests against the project of the creation of an imperial Duma.
• 1905: In Spain, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party is attempting to carry out a general strike to protest the care of life.
• 1907: the dome of the old church of the Salesas is set on fire and destroyed.
• 1908: Spain: a law is passed that organizes the collection and exchange by the Ministry of Finance of the false hard ones that circulate throughout the country.
• 1909: In Spain, inventor and builder Ricardo Causarás Casaña patents the first triangular shape plane of the rigid tin wing of the world.
• 1909: In France, Georges Clemenceau resigns from the presidency for the distrust of his naval policy.
• 1917: In Germany, parliament grants a new war credit during the First World War for fifteen billion marks.
• 1919: In Saint Germain—in the framework of World War I—the allies give the conditions of peace to the German-Austrian delegation.
• 1920: in Tarragona (Spain) is a shipwreck saving society.
• 1921: in Barcelona, Spain, the franc deposit is opened.
• 1922: The Hague, Netherlands, closes the Conference on the Problem of War Repairs Due from Germany.
• 1923: in the city of Parral, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, General Pancho Villa is shot dead.
• 1923: in Spain begins the regularity test Pamplona-Lérida-Huesca-Pamplona-San Sebastián de motociclismo.
• 1927: In Chile, the executive decree 3876 of the Ministry of Public Instruction was promulgated, which re-establishes from October 12 of the same year the teaching and official use in that country of the spelling of the Royal Spanish Academy to replace the Bello Orthography, which was in force since 1844.
• 1928: In Colombia, the Hercules cannon explodes; 51 sailors and officers die.
• 1930: In the Soviet Union, Maxim Litvinov is appointed Commissioner for Foreign Affairs.
• 1932: in Peru, mountaineers reach the top of Huascarán (of 6768 m), the highest mountain in Peru and the intertropical area.
• 1933: The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Eugenio Pacelli (after Pope Pius XII), signs a concordat with Hitler.
• 1936 Spain, Guerra Civil, dies Francisco Ascaso in Barcelona during the assault on the barracks of Atarazanas, one of the highest representatives of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement along with Buenaventura Durruti, Federica Montseny and Juan García Oliver
• 1936: In Spain, General José Sanjurjo, who was going to lead the military uprising that triggered the Spanish civil war, died in an aviation accident when he returned from Lisbon to Madrid.
• 1936: in Madrid, Spain, Republican soldiers and militia raid the Mountain Headquarters, the only reduct of the rebels in that city.
• 1944: In Germany, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and a group of Wehrmacht officers attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler and strike a coup in the 20 July attack, but they fail.
• 1945: in Spain a change of government is carried out, in which only the ministers of government, finance, national education and labour continue.
• 1948: in South Korea, Syngman Rhee is appointed president.
• 1950: in Belgium, parliament authorizes the return of King Leopoldo III.
• 1951: King Abdullah Ibn Husayn of Jordan is killed in Jerusalem.

Explosion of the Tewa hydrogen bomb in 1956. It was the 86th bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

• 1956: in the Bikini atoll, the United States detonates the Tewa hydrogen bomb (name of an ethnic group of American natives), of 5000 kilotons. It produced 87% fission, the highest percentage of any known American thermonuclear test.
• 1958: in Bogotá, Colombia, the Congress is constituted with the same number of Liberals and Conservatives, and meets for the first time since 1952.
• 1960: In Spain, the Government approves draft legislation on civil compilation of Catalan law, horizontal ownership and air navigation.
• 1960: In Bogotá, the Museum of July 20 was founded when the Sesquicentenary of the Independence of Colombia was commemorated.
• 1962: In the United States, for the first time, a television image is transmitted between the United States (Andover) and Europe (Pleumeur-Bodou, France).
• 1969: the lunar module Eagleof the space mission Apollo 11 is placed on the Moon at 20:17:40 (international time UTC). Five and a half hours later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would be the first men to step on the lunar surface.
• 1970: In Spain, the University Orientation Course (COU) experimentally replaces the PREU.
• 1972: in Malaga, Spain, El Lute and his brother were injured in a shooting with the Guardia Civil.
• 1973: In India and Pakistan, catastrophic floods lead to the death of 17 000 people and several million victims.
• 1974: in Cyprus, Turkish troops invaded the island, in response to the coup d ' état given five days earlier by Greek officers of the National Guard.
• 1976: the Viking 1 (United States) ship performs the first mooring in Mars.
• 1978: in Spain, the new 5000 pesetas bills begin to be a legal currency.
• 1978: In Spain, the irregular revaluations of the Coca Bank reach 5 billion pesetas.
• 1979: in Nicaragua, the Revolutionary Board promulgates the "Statute of the Republic", by which basic individual freedoms were recognized and guaranteed, until the elaboration of a new Constitution.
• 1979: Spanish theatre director Albert Boadella obtains provisional freedom.
• 1980: in Honduras, the Military Board chaired by General Policarpo Paz García, formally transferred the government of the country to the Constituent Assembly elected by the people.
• 1981: In the United States, Irene Sáez is crowned as Miss Universe being the second Venezuelan to win the contest.
• 1981: in Spain, the State Official Gazette (BOE) publishes the divorce law.
• 1984: In Spain, the "aguier" of Banca Catalana amounts to 63,855 million pesetas.
• 1986: the Spanish Worldbasket ends with the triumph of the United States team.
• 1990: in Iraq, President Saddam Hussein calls for support to the Arab world against Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, who are accused of saturating oil on the market.
• 1993: The Latin pop singer, Mexican actor and composer Cristian Castro, launches his second studio album titled One second in time.
• 1994: Mexico City opens Line 8 of Mexico City Metro.
• 1999: in Spain, the Constitutional Court excarcelates the 23 leaders of Herri Batasuna (HB), convicted by the Supreme for ceding their electoral spaces for the dissemination of an ETA video in 1996.
• 1999: in Europe, the European Parliament elects the French Chamber's new president Nicole Fontaine, proposed by conservatives and liberals.
• 2001: in Italy, police kill Carlo Giuliani in the G8 counterpart in Genoa
• 2002: In Peru, the Utopia disco fire in Lima causes 29 deaths and dozens of injuries.
• 2002: in Sicily, Italy, eight people die and half a hundred are injured in the derailment of a train.
• 2003: In France, the police held Corsican terrorists responsible for the double attack on government buildings in Nice.
• 2004: In France, the oceanographer Christopher Sabine states that half of the CO2 issued by man in the last 200 years is in the most superficial layers of the oceans.
• 2004: in Nepal, a Spanish expedition finds the remains of the Italian mountaineer Renato Casarotto, who died in 1986 on Mount K2.
• 2004: in Europe, Spanish politician José Borrell is elected president of the European Parliament.
• 2004: In Iraq, hours after the withdrawal of the Philippine troops was confirmed, the resistance liberated a trucker from that kidnapped nationality for two weeks.
• 2005: in Spain, Juan José Millás won the Francisco Cerecedo de Periodismo Award, which is awarded by the Association of European Journalists.
• 2005: In Nepal, Mount Edurne Pasaban climbs to the top of the Nanga Parbat (8125 m) and becomes, with eight ascensions, the living woman with more "ochomiles".
• 2007: In Spain, the Government kidnapped 1573 of the magazine Thursday.
• 2008: in every municipality and city of Colombia, and in several cities around the world, a march is made for the liberation of those kidnapped by the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). Commemoration of Independence with the Great Concert for Peace.
• 2012: in a cinema in the U.S. town of Aurora (Colorado), a certain James Eagan Holmes (24)—armed with two guns, a shotgun, a semi-automatic rifle, and thousands of bullets for these weapons (all legally acquired)—kills 12 people and wounds another 59.
• 2015: Cuba and the United States officially re-establish their diplomatic relations, which had been broken since 1961, ending 54 years of hostility between the two nations.

Births

• 356 B.C.: Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (f. 323 B.C.).
• 810: Muhammad Ibn Ismail Al-Bujari, an Islamic scholar of Persian descent (f. 870).
• 1304: Francesco Petrarca, Italian Renaissance poet (f. 1374).
• 1519: Inocencio IX, Italian pope (f. 1591).
• 1656: Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (f. 1723).
• 1661: Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French explorer (f. 1706).
• 1700: Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, French scientist (f. 1782).
• 1726: Joaquín Ibarra, Spanish printer (f. 1785).
• 1737: Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, poet, prosist and Spanish playwright (f. 1780).
• 1743: Costillars (Joaquín Rodríguez), Spanish bullfighter (f. 1800).
• 1754: Antoine Destutt de Tracy, a French philosopher and aristocrat (f. 1836).
• 1766: Thomas Bruce Elgin, British aristocrat (f. 1841).
• 1769: Camilo Henríquez, a Chilean priest and politician (f. 1825).
• 1774: Auguste Marmont, French Marshal (f. 1852).
• 1781: Sophie Lebrun, pianist and German composer (f. 1863).
• 1785: Mahmut II, Ottoman sultan (f. 1839).
• 1804: Richard Owen, British biologist and paleontologist (f. 1892).
• 1822: Gregor Mendel, monk and Austrian naturalist (f. 1884).
• 1825: Nicasio Oroño, jurist and Argentine politician (f. 1904).
• 1829: Luis Terrazas, politician, military and Mexican businessman (f. 1923).
• 1844: John Sholto Douglas, British aristocrat (f. 1900).
• 1847: Max Liebermann, German poet (f. 1935).
• 1859: Otto Warburg, German botanist (f. 1938).
• 1864: Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet, nobel literature award in 1931 (f. 1931).
• 1868: José Félix Uriburu, Argentine military, dictator between 1930 and 1932 (f. 1932).
• 1868: Miron Cristea, the first Romanian patriarch (f. 1939).
• 1873: Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian aviator (f. 1932).
• 1876: Pedro Opaso Letelier, Chilean politician, Vice-President in 1931 (f. 1957).
• 1877: Thomas Crean, Irish navy and Antarctic explorer (f. 1938).
• 1885: Michitarō Komatsubara, a Japanese military officer (f. 1940).
• 1889: Emiliano Bajo Iglesias, Spanish politician (f. 1936).
• 1889: Antonio Vallejo-Nájera, Spanish psychiatrist (f. 1960).
• 1890: Gonzalo Roig, director of orchestra and Cuban composer (f. 1970).
• 1890: Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (f. 1964).
• 1892: Gilberto Bosques, Mexican diplomat (f. 1995).
• 1895: Laszló Moholy-Nagy, photographer and Hungarian painter (f. 1946).
• 1897: Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1950 (f. 1996).
• 1913: Irma Córdoba, an Argentine actress (f. 2008).
• 1914: Ersilio Tonini, Italian bishop (f. 2013).
• 1914: Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian beggar (f. 2018).
• 1918: Olga Ramos, Spanish singer (f. 2005).
• 1919: Edmund Hillary, New Zealander, first to climb Mount Everest, in 1938 (f. 2008).
• 1919: José Ramón Medina, politician, writer, and Venezuelan poet (f. 2010).
• 1921: Mercedes Pardo, a Venezuelan painter (f. 2005).
• 1922: Aníbal Arias, Argentine guitarist (f. 2010).
• 1924: Alejandro Pietri, Venezuelan architect (f. 1992).
• 1925: Jacques Delors, a French socialist politician.
• 1925: Frantz Fanon, French philosopher (f. 1961).
• 1925: Lola Albright, American actress. (f. 2017).
• 1926: Geoffrey Ostergaard, an English pacifist anarchist (f. 1990).
• 1931: Marina Popovich, engineer, writer, airliner and officer of the Soviet air force (f. 2017)
• 1932: Josefa de Bastavales, Spanish panderetera.
• 1932: Nam June Paik, South Korean videoartist (f. 2006).
• 1933: Cormac McCarthy, American writer.
• 1936: Alcibiades González Delvalle, journalist, playwright and Paraguayan narrator.
• 1938: Diana Rigg, British actress (f. 2020).
• 1938: Natalie Wood, American actress (f. 1981).
• 1941: Kurt Raab, German actor (f. 1988).
• 1943: Chris Amon, New Zealand Formula 1 pilot (f. 2016).
• 1943: Ernesto Bitetti, Spanish-Argentine guitarist.
• 1943: Adrian Păunescu, a Romanian politician and poet (f. 2010).
• 1944: Roberto Rogel, Argentine footballer.
• 1945: Kim Carnes, American singer and composer.
• 1945: Larry Craig, American politician.
• 1946: Randal Kleiser, American filmmaker
• 1947: Gerd Binnig, German physicist, nobel physics award in 1986.
• 1947: Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist.
• 1951: Nick Weatherspoon, American basketball player (f. 2008).
• 1953: Dave Evans, an Australian musician of British origin, of the AC/DC band.
• 1954: Keith Scott, Canadian guitarist.
• 1955: Francisco Tudela, Peruvian politician.
• 1956: Paul Cook, British musician, of the band Sex Pistols.
• 1956: Julio César Falcioni, former Argentinean footballer and current technical director.
• 1959: Claudio Gallardou, Argentine actor.
• 1960: Federico Echave, Spanish cyclist.
• 1963: Joan Gonper (José Ángel González Pérez), Spanish writer and editor.
• 1963: Nacho Mañó, Spanish musician, of the band Implicados.
• 1964: Chris Cornell, American singer and guitarist, of the band Soundgarden (f. 2017).
• 1964: Terri Irwin, American biologist.
• 1965: Joe Arlauckas, Lithuanian-American basketball player.
• 1966: Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexican president from 2012 to 2018.
• 1966: Stone Gossard, American guitarist, Pearl Jam band.
• 1968: Kool G Rap, American rapper.
• 1969: Josh Holloway, American actor.
• 1969: Vitamin C (Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick), American singer.
• 1970: Howard Jones, American musician, of the Killswitch Engage band.
• 1971: Sandra Oh, Korean-Canadian actress.
• 1973: Claudio Reyna, American footballer.
• 1973: Haakon Magnus, Norwegian aristocrat.
• 1974: Simon Rex, American actor.
• 1975: Judy Greer, American actress.
• 1975: Ray Allen, American basketball player.
• 1975: Quique Álvarez, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 1977: Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian footballer.
• 1977: Kiki Musampa, Dutch footballer.
• 1978: Will Solomon, American basketball player.
• 1978: Nigel Quashie, Welsh footballer.
• 1979: Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (f. 2004).
• 1980: Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model and actress.
• 1981: Vanessa Mendoza, model, queen and political, professional in Hotelería and tourism with specialization in Colombian tourist marketing.
• 1982: Percy Daggs III, American actor.
• 1983: Barbara Goenaga, Spanish actress.
• 1984: Gonzalo Bergessio, Argentine footballer.
• 1985: John Francis Daley, American actor.
• 1985: Yevhen Seleznyov, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1988: Julianne Hough, American dancer and actress.
• 1989: Paola Longoria, Mexican racquetballist.
• 1989: Cristian Pasquato, Italian footballer.
• 1990: Steven Joseph-Monrose, French footballer.
• 1993: Alycia Debnam-Carey, Australian actress.
• 1994: Nora Heroum, Finnish footballer.
• 1994: Caroline Corinth, Danish model.
• 1994: Ricardo Correa Duarte, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1994: Andrea Vendrame, Italian cyclist.
• 1994: Brenda Graff, volleyballist from Argentina.
• 1998: Joey Bragg, American actor.
• 1998: Sinead Michael, British actress.
• 1998: Merveil Ndockyt, Congolese footballer.
• 1998: Shaban Idd Chilunda, Tanzanian footballer.
• 1998: Alejo Antilef, Argentine soccer player.
• 1999: Pop Smoke, American singer (f. 2020).
• 1999: Zinho Vanheusden, Belgian footballer.
• 1999: Goga Bitadze, Georgian basketball player.
• 1999: Imru Duke, basketball trinitense.
• 2000: Charne Griesel, South African Yudoca.
• 2000: Isaure Medde, French cyclist.
• 2000: Carlos Palacios Núñez, Chilean footballer.
• 2000: Noble Okello, Canadian footballer.
• 2000: Manuel Sulaimán, a Mexican motor vehicle pilot.
• 2000: Jessic Ngankam, German footballer.
• 2000: Facundo Russo, Argentine soccer player.
• 2000: Alberto del Moral Saelices, Spanish footballer.
• 2002: Omar Campos, Mexican soccer player.

Deaths

• 1031: Roberto II, French king (n. 972).
• 1156: Toba, Japanese emperor (n. 1103).
• 1500: Michael of Peace, Prince of Asturias and Gerona and Crown Prince of Portugal (n. 1498).
• 1515: Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones, aristocrat española (n. 1440).
• 1524: Claudia de France, aristocrat, wife of the king (n. 1499).
• 1816: Antonio Baraya, Colombian military (n. 1776)
• 1817: Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard, French writer (n. 1732).
• 1866: Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (n. 1826).
• 1877: Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, Chilean politician, 9th president (n. 1825).
• 1898: Yuri Karlovich Arnold, composer, musical educator and Russian musicologist (n. 1811).
• 1903: Leo XIII, Italian pope (n. 1810).
• 1905: Alfonso Espínola, a Spanish doctor (n. 1845).
• 1913: Rufino Solano, Argentine military (n. 1838).
• 1922: Andréi Márkov, Russian mathematician (n. 1856).
• 1923: Pancho Villa, Mexican politician and military (n. 1878).
• 1927: Fernando I, Romanian king (n. 1865).
• 1928: Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (n. 1896).
• 1936: Francisco Ascaso, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (n. 1901).
• 1936: José Sanjurjo, a Spanish military officer (n. 1872).
• 1937: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor of the threadless telegraph (n. 1874).
• 1944: Ludwig Beck, German military (n. 1880).
• 1944: Mildred Harris, American actress (n. 1901).
• 1944: Pedro Núñez Granés, architect and Spanish engineer (n. 1859).
• 1945: Paul Valéry, French writer (n. 1871).
• 1951: Abdullah ibn Husayn, emir transjordano (1921-1949) and king of Jordan (1949-1951) (n. 1882).
• 1951: William of Prussia, German aristocrat, last Prussian prince (n. 1882).
• 1953: Jan Struther, English writer, creator of the character of Mrs. Miniver (n. 1901).
• 1955: Joaquín Pardavé, actor, director, singer, comedian and screenwriter of Mexican cinema. (n. 1900).
• 1971: Amanda Clement, first woman to arbitrate a baseball game (n. 1888).
• 1972: Friedrich Flick, German Nazi entrepreneur (n. 1883).
• 1973: Bruce Lee, martial artist and American actor (n. 1940).
• 1974: Gaspar Gómez de la Serna, a Spanish writer (n. 1918).
• 1974: Allen Jenkins, American actor (n. 1900).
• 1977: Anselmo Pardo Alcaide, Spanish entomologist (n. 1913).
• 1982: Harold Foster, author of American comics (n. 1892).
• 1984: Ricardo Chofa Moreno, Argentine guitarist (n. 1960).
• 1984: Luis María Boffi Bogero, politician, lawyer and minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina (n. 1915)
• 1986: Stanley Rous, British sports leader, FIFA President from 1961 to 1974 (n. 1895).
• 1987: Dimitri Leliushenko, Soviet military (n. 1901)
• 1989: Juan Carlos Altavista, an Argentine actor who played Minguito Tinguitella (n. 1929).
• 1994: Paul Delvaux, a Belgian painter (n. 1897).
• 1995: Raimundo Tupper Lyon, Chilean footballer (n. 1969).
• 1996: Raphael Patai (85), ethnographer, historian, orientalist and Jewish Hungarian anthropologist (n. 1910).
• 1996: František Plánička, Czech footballer (n. 1906).
• 1998: Norah Borges, an Argentine painter, sister of writer Jorge Luis Borges (n. 1901).
• 2000: Eladio Dieste, Uruguayan architect (n. 1917).
• 2000: Tomás Marco Nadal, a Spanish cartoonist (n. 1929).
• 2001: Carlo Giuliani, an Italian anti-globalization activist (n. 1978).
• 2004: Antonio Gades, Spanish dancer and choreographer (n. 1936).
• 2005: Josefina de Vasconcellos, English sculptor (n. 1904).
• 2005: James Doohan, Canadian actor (n. 1920).
• 2005: El Chocolate (Antonio Núñez Montoya), Spanish singer (n. 1930).
• 2007: Golde Flami, an Argentine actress of Ukrainian origin (n. 1918).
• 2008: Mario de Jesús Báez, Dominican composer (n.1924).
• 2010: Benedikt Gröndal, an Icelandic politician and prime minister between 1979 and 1980 (n. 1924).
• 2010: Thomas Molnar, Hungarian philosopher and historian (n. 1921).
• 2011: Lucian Freud, British painter and engraver (n. 1922).
• 2013: Helen Thomas, American journalist (n. 1920).
• 2014: Álex Angulo, Spanish actor (n. 1953).
• 2017: Chester Bennington, singer, composer, producer and American actor (n. 1976).
• 2017: Wilindoro Cacique, Peruvian singer and composer (n. 1942).
• 2019: Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player (n. 1955).
• 2019: Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuban poet (n. 1930).
• 2020: Viktor Chízhikov, Soviet and Russian illustrator (n. 1935).

Celebrations

• World Chess Day
• ColombiaColombia: Grain of Independence (see Independence of Colombia).
• Argentina and Uruguay Uruguay: Friend's Day inspired by man's descent on the Moon.
• SpainSpain, Murcia Region, Alamo Source - Day of the Villa.
• HondurasHonduras: Lempira Day, first national hero.
• El SalvadorEl Salvador: Salvadoran Engineer Day.
• Mexico Mexico: National Library Day.

Catholic saints list

• San Apolinar de Rávena
• San Aurelio de Cartago
• San Elías (prophet)
• San José Barsabás
• San José María Díaz Sanjurjo
• Santa Maria Fu Guilin
• Santa Marina/Margarita de Antioquía de Pisidia
• San Pablo de Córdoba
• San Pedro Zhou Rixin
• San Senerio, Bishop of Avranches
• San Vulmaro de Boulogne
• San Xi Guizi
• Divine Child of Twenty July
• Blessed Bernard of Hildesheim