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Wikipedia:On this day/Today. Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 20 [ talk · edit · history ] July 20. 1651 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: After crossing the Firth of Forth, English Commonwealth forces defeated a Scottish army at the Battle of Inverkeithing, opening the rest of the country to occupation.
August 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Songun(North Korea) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uruguayfrom Brazilin 1825. Soldier's Day (Brazil) References. [edit] ^Tyerman, Christopher (2019). The World of the Crusades. Yale University Press. pp. 134–135.
Snooker is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets. First played by British Army officers stationed in India circa 1875, the game uses twenty-two balls (pictured) – a white cue ball, fifteen red balls, and six other balls collectively called "the colours".
List of days of the year. The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Jan. 1. 2.
This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. 1933 – Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona. 1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
2016 (Monday) 2015 (Saturday) March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 278 days remain until the end of the year.
1957– The largely autobiographical novelThe Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfoldby Evelyn Waughwas published. 2014– Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian military checkpointin the Libyan Desertnear Farafra, killing 22 soldiers. William McSherry(b. 1799) Khawaja Nazimuddin(b. 1894) Kgalema Motlanthe(b. 1949) Sylvia Daoust(d.
2015 (Monday) 2014 (Sunday) September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 101 days remain until the end of the year.