History for July 20

History for July 20 - On-This-Day.com 

1920 Elliot Richardson

• 1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed.
• 1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
• 1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
• 1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
• 1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.
• 1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.