Historical Events for 20th July 2024

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1864 - Battle at Stephenson's Depot, Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1869 - Children's Hospital Boston is founded by Dr. Francis Henry Brown and other Harvard Medical School graduates, as a 20-bed facility in the South End of Boston, Massachusetts
1901 - Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco's frontier with Algeria, a French colony
1917 - WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1925 - Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1948 - US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1956 - Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs
1961 - Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's musical "Stop The World - I Want To Get Off" premieres at Queen's Theater in London's West End
1984 - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America due to publication of nude photos of her
2018 - American director James Gunn fired as director of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" by Disney after past offensive tweets surface

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