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July 20 in U.S. military history

1944: As Adolf Hitler meets with officials at his Wolf’s Lair headquarters in East Prussia, a suitcase bomb planted by

1898: Spanish forces under the command of Gen. José Toral surrender Cuba to Gen. William R. Shafter, practically ending Col.

1863: At 7:45 p.m., Union soldiers led by Brig. Gen. Truman Seymore launch a second attack against Battery Wagner, in

55 years ago on this day astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

1776: Lt. Col. John Nixon, commanding the 3rd Battalion of the Philadelphia Associators militia, reads the Declaration of Independence publicly