July 20


Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops, 1881


The first man (Astronaut Neil Armstrong) to set foot on the moon, 1969


America's Viking I robot spacecraft made the first-ever landing on Mars, 1976


An attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed, only wounding him, 1944


The Beatles US album, Something New, was released, 1964