This Day In European History

20th July

Events
1514: The rebellion of Hungarian peasants under George Dozsa is defeated at the Siege of Temesvar.
1944: Adolf Hitler survives the Stauffenberg plot to assassinate him.
1957: British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gives his 'Never had it so good' speech.

Births
1304: Petrarch, Italian humanist.
1804: Richard Owen, British palaeontologist who invented the word Dinosaur.

Deaths
1031: King Robert II, the Pious, of France.
1584: Francis Throckmorton, English conspirator.
1616: Hugh O'Neill, Irish chieftain.
1866: Berhard Riemann, German mathematician.
1937: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor.

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