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| July 20th, 2005 | Event | Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent. |
| July 20th, 2003 | Event | France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice. |
| July 20th, 2002 | Event | South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five. |
| July 20th, 2001 | Event | The London Stock Exchange goes public. |
| July 20th, 2001 | Event | Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police. |
| July 20th, 2000 | Event | The leaders of Salt Lake City s bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering. |
| July 20th, 2000 | Event | In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade. |
| July 20th, 2000 | Event | Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him. |
| July 20th, 1999 | Event | The practise Falun Gong is officially banned and defined as an "evil cult" (xiejiao) by the government of the People s Republic of China, and a large-scale crackdown of its practitioners is launched. |
| July 20th, 1998 | Event | Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban. |
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