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Today in History: July 20
1402
Tamerlane's Mongols defeat the Ottoman Turks at Angora.

1588
The Spanish Armada sets sail from Corunna.

1715
The Riot Act goes into effect in England.

1864
Confederate General John Bell Hood attacks Union forces under General William T. Sherman outside Atlanta.

1867
Imperial troops in Guizhou, China, kill 20,000 Miao rebels.

1881
Sioux chief Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army.

1917
Alexander Kerensky becomes the premier of Russia.

1942
The U.S. Army Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) begins its first training class at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

1944
Adolf Hitler is wounded in an assassination attempt by German Army officers at Rastenburg.

1950
The U.S. Army's Task Force Smith is pushed back by superior North Korean forces.

1951
King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated.

1969
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon.

1976
The Viking spacecraft lands on Mars and begins taking soil samples.

Today in History: Born on July 20
1304
Francisco Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar.

1591
Anne Hutchinson, religious liberal, one of the founders of Rhode Island.

1850
John Graves Shedd, president of Marshall Field and Company.

1919
Edmund Hillary, New Zealand explorer.

1933
Cormac McCarthy, novelist (All the Pretty Horses).

JOTD
A gray haired Army general walks into a hotel bar and sits down next to a young, attractive woman.
Walks into a bar
They hit it off, and she likes a man in uniform, so she says, “Why don’t you come up to my room?”

The general says, “I’m flattered but at my age I’m not sure if things would work the way you hope.”

She says, “But you’re in good shape...tell me, when was the last time you had sex?”

“Oh...”,says the general...”it was probably 1950.”

“Oh my gosh!”, says the woman. “Well I’m sure it will all come back to you.”

So they end up in bed and it’s pretty wild. The general really has some skills.

When it’s all over, she says, “General, that was wonderful! I’m impressed that you haven’t forgotten a thing since 1950!”

And the general says, “Well I should hope not. It’s only 2130 now.”