How Many Days Until July 20?

This day in history: July 20

1. 1976

   The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.

2. 1977

   Rain from a stalled thunderstorm caused six dams to fail, flooding Johnstown, Pennsylvania, resulting in 84 deaths and $340 in damages.

3. 1982

   Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in London, killing eleven British Army personnel and seven horses.

4. 1997

   USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after a full restoration.

5. 2001

   Twenty-three-year-old Italian anti-globalist Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a police officer while protesting outside the 27th G8 summit held in Genoa, Italy.

6. 2012

   A gunman carried out a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.

7. 2015

   A suicide attack in Suruç, Turkey, for which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility, killed 34 people and injured 104 others.

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