Historical Events for 20th July 2023

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1858 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1944 - US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
1975 - India expels three reporters from "The Times", "The Daily Telegraph", and "Newsweek" because they refuse to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship
1982 - Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
2002 - Bartenders doing tricks with fire start a major fire in a night club in Lima, Peru that kills 25 and injures 100
2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent
2008 - 16th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Candace Parker win
2014 - The Israeli Defence Force enter Shuja'iyya, a populous neighbourhood of Gaza City, as part of their ground offensive focused on destroying tunnels crossing the Israel border
2020 - Announcement that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) is able to trigger immune response and antibodies

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