Today in History: Turkish forces carried out intervention in Cyprus following a Greek coup

The following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 20:

1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and pioneer of wireless telegraphy, died.

1944 – German officers made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler by planting a bomb under a table in the Nazi leader’s “Wolf’s Lair” headquarters in East Prussia.

1969 - Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module.

1974 – Turkish forces carries out intervention in Cyprus following a Greek coup.

1989 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest for her outspoken attacks on the country’s military rulers.

1998 – Danish ferry Cat-Link V completes crossing of Atlantic Ocean in world record time of two days, 20 hours and nine minutes.

2000 – Vietnam opened a stock market in Ho Chi Minh City in another step into capitalism.

2001 – In Italy, anti-globalisation protester Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a paramilitary policeman as the annual Group of Eight leaders’ meeting opened in Genoa.

2005 – Canadian-born actor James Doohan, best known as the feisty, Scottish-accented chief engineer on television’s original “Star Trek” series — a role immortalised by the catchphrase “Beam me up, Scotty” – died aged 85.

2006 – French film maker Gerard Oury, whose string of fast-paced farces in the 1960s and 1970s made him one of France’s most successful film directors, died at the age of 87.

2006 – Bottle of tequila in solid platinum and gold bottle becomes most expensive bottle of liquor sold, with private collector purchasing a bottle for $225,000.

(Reuters)