What happend on 20th July

19.07
21.07
1944

In Bombay, India, health authorities announce a cholera epidemic has killed 34,000 in three months.

1944

The United States Democratic Party nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for a fourth term as president.

1943

World War II: Axis leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer in northern Italy

1943

World War II: American and Canadian troops conquer Enna on Sicily.

1942

World War II: Red Army troops take bridgeheads over the Don River near Voronezh.

1941

Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.

1940

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill limiting political activity by Federal employees, the Hatch Act.

1940

Billboard magazine publishes its first "Music Popularity Chart"; the first number one song is Frank Sinatra's "I'll Never Smile Again".

1940

Denmark leaves the League of Nations.

1936

The Montreux Convention is signed in Montreux, Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.