West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks. Date: July 20, 1934 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1934…

Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven. Date: July 20, 1934 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1934 📅 On This Day (Today)

Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. Date: July 20, 1935 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1935 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. Date: July 20, 1936 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1936 📅 On This Day (Today)

The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948. Date: July 20, 1938 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events…

California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway. Date: July 20, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today)

Denmark leaves the League of Nations. Date: July 20, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today)

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief. Date: July 20, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. Date: July 20, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Date: July 20, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)