This week in history

July 20, 2005
Issue 
634

July 20

1972: The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is evicted from Parliament lawns in Canberra.

2001: Anti-G8 protester Carlo Giuliani is shot dead by Italian police.

July 22

1936: The New Theatre defies a ban on performing the anti-fascist play Till the Day I Die.

July 24

1783: South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar is born.

July 25

1867: Karl Marx's Das Kapital is published.

1898: Puerto Rico is invaded by the US.

July 26

1959: Fidel Castro leads attack on the Moncada army barracks in Cuba.

From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, July 20, 2005.
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