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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 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike — 19 / 40

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1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike (seen at left) becomes the world's first elected female head of government, after her Sri Lanka Freedom Party wins a majority in elections in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

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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