This Day In History

On July 20
1810
Colombia declared independence from Spain.
1881
Sioux Indian leader, Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.
1917
The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
1944
U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1944
An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
1947
The National Football League (NFL) ruled that no professional team could sign a player who had college eligibility remaining.
1969
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
1998
Russia won an $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
2003
In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.