Stop in for a cup of coffee
On July 20
1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain.
1881 Sioux Indian leader, Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.
1917 The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
1944 U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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.
1947 The National Football League (NFL) ruled that no professional team could sign a player who had college eligibility remaining.
1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
1998 Russia won an $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
2003 In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.