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JULY 20
1940:"I'll Never Smile Again," performed by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
with vocals by Frank Sinatra, makes it to the top of the first-ever Billboard magazine "Music Popularity Chart," the forerunner of its Hot 100 list.
1951: King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a
Palestinian nationalist while visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday
prayers in Jerusalem. King Abdullah is immediately succeeded by his son,
Talal, although his grandson, Hussein, will assume the throne only a
year later.
1969: "That's one small step for man …" American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touch down on the moon aboard the Eagle, Apollo 11's lunar module, becoming the first men to walk on the moon. Ten others will follow them. Exactly seven years later, the unmanned Viking 1 lander will settle onto the dusty surface of Mars as the first spacecraft to land on the Red Planet.
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