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On this day: July 20

POSTED: 07:48 AM PDT Jul 19, 2012 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 19, 2012

An ancient king is born, the first Ford rolls off the line, the Special Olympics are born, man lands on the moon and a home run king belts his last, all on this day.

OTD July 20 - Edmund Hillary — 8 / 40

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1919: Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, would become the first climber confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest, is born in Auckland, New Zealand.

OTD July 20 - Alexander the Great

OTD July 20 - Nicephore Niepce

OTD July 20 - paid baseball game

OTD July 20 - British Columbia

OTD July 20 - Henry Ford

OTD July 20 - Yugoslavia

OTD July 20 - WWI draft lottery

OTD July 20 - Edmund Hillary

OTD July 20 - Pancho Villa

OTD July 20 - Guglielmo Marconi

OTD July 20 - movie studios

OTD July 20 - Diana Rigg

OTD July 20 - Natalie Wood

OTD July 20 - Arroyo Seco Parkway

OTD July 20 - Billboard

OTD July 20 - Claus von Stauffenberg

OTD July 20 - FDR

OTD July 20 - Carlos Santana

OTD July 20 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike

OTD July 20 - Surf City

OTD July 20 - Like a Rolling Stone

OTD July 20 - Special Olympics

OTD July 20 - Apollo 11

OTD July 20 - Sandra Oh

OTD July 20 - Bruce Lee

OTD July 20 - Viking I

OTD July 20 - Hank Aaron

OTD July 20 - CIA mind control

OTD July 20 - Vietnam

OTD July 20 - Gisele

OTD July 20 - Revenge of the Nerds

OTD July 20 - Vanessa Williams

OTD July 20 - Sid and Nancy

OTD July 20 - Julianne Hough

OTD July 20 - Michael Dukakis

OTD July 20 - OJ Simpson

OTD July 20 - Canada same-sex marriage

OTD July 20 - James Doohan

OTD July 20 - Tammy Faye Messner

OTD July 20 - Colorado movie theater shooting

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