Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, stands on the surface of the moon near the leg of the lunar module, Eagle, during the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, mission commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. While Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the lunar module to explore the Sea of Tranquility, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained in lunar orbit with the Command and Service Module, Columbia. (Photo Courtesy: NASA [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons)
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Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 20:
1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and pioneer of wireless telegraphy, died.
1944 - German officers made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler by planting a bomb under a table in the Nazi leader's "Wolf's Lair" headquarters in East Prussia.
1969 - One giant leap for mankind with Moon landing.
1974 - Turkish forces invaded northern Cyprus, shelling Kyrenia and moving inland towards Nicosia.
1989 - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest for her outspoken attacks on the country's military rulers.
1998 - Danish ferry Cat-Link V completes crossing of Atlantic Ocean in world record time of two days, 20 hours and nine minutes.
2000 - Vietnam opened a stock market in Ho Chi Minh City in another step into capitalism.
2001 - In Italy, anti-globalisation protester Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a paramilitary policeman as the annual Group of Eight leaders' meeting opened in Genoa.
2005 - Canadian-born actor James Doohan, best known as the feisty, Scottish-accented chief engineer on television's original "Star Trek" series -- a role immortalised by the catchphrase "Beam me up, Scotty" – died aged 85.
2006 - French film maker Gerard Oury, whose string of fast-paced farces in the 1960s and 1970s made him one of France's most successful film directors, died at the age of 87.
2006 - Bottle of tequila in solid platinum and gold bottle becomes most expensive bottle of liquor sold, with private collector purchasing a bottle for $225,000.
