20-07-2025

Met Museum

Figure of a standing Chinese man

ca. 1740

Villeroy

MoMA Highlight

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

1907

Pablo Picasso

Oil on canvas

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On This Day

• 2015 A suicide attack (aftermath pictured) in Suruç, Turkey, for which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility, killed 34 people and injured 104 others.
Suruç bombingSuruçIslamic State
• 2012 A gunman carried out a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.
James Holmes (mass murderer)2012 Aurora theater shootingAurora, Colorado
• 2001 Twenty-three-year-old Italian anti-globalist Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a police officer while protesting outside the 27th G8 summit held in Genoa, Italy.
Death of Carlo Giuliani27th G8 summitGenoa
• 1997 USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after a full restoration.
USS ConstitutionUnited States NavyOriginal six frigates of the United States Navy
• 1982 Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in London, killing eleven British Army personnel and seven horses.
Provisional Irish Republican ArmyHyde Park and Regent's Park bombingsHyde Park, LondonRegent's ParkBritish Army
• 1977 Rain from a stalled thunderstorm caused six dams to fail, flooding Johnstown, Pennsylvania, resulting in 84 deaths and $340 in damages.
Johnstown flood of 1977
• 1976 The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.
Viking 1Lander (spacecraft)Mars
• 1969 The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later (bootprint pictured).
Apollo 11Lunar Module EagleMare TranquillitatisNeil ArmstrongBuzz AldrinList of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999
• 1968 The first games of the Special Olympics (athletes pictured), for athletes with intellectual disabilities, were held at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1968 Special Olympics World Summer GamesSpecial OlympicsIntellectual disabilitySoldier Field
• 1951 Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated while visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Abdullah I of JordanAssassination of Abdullah I of JordanAl-Aqsa Mosque
• 1950 Korean War: After a month-long campaign, much of the North Korean air force was destroyed by United Nations forces.
Korean WarAir Battle of South KoreaKorean People's Army Air Force
• 1917 Serbian prime minister Nikola Pašić and Yugoslav Committee president Ante Trumbić signed the Corfu Declaration, agreeing to seek the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
Nikola PašićYugoslav CommitteeAnte TrumbićCorfu DeclarationKingdom of Yugoslavia
• 1867 The United States Congress established the Indian Peace Commission to seek peace treaties with a number of Native American tribes.
United States CongressIndian Peace CommissionNative Americans in the United States
• 1807 French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce received a patent for their Pyréolophore, one of the world's first internal combustion engines.
Claude NiépceNicéphore NiépcePyréolophoreInternal combustion engine
• 1793 Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific coast at Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.
Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)Bella Coola, British Columbia
• 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms: After crossing the Firth of Forth, English Commonwealth forces defeated a Scottish army at the Battle of Inverkeithing, opening the rest of the country to occupation.
Wars of the Three KingdomsFirth of ForthCommonwealth of EnglandBattle of Inverkeithing
• 1333 Second War of Scottish Inde­pen­dence: The Scottish-held town of Berwick-upon-Tweed surrendered to English forces, ending a siege led by King Edward III.
Second War of Scottish IndependenceBerwick-upon-TweedSiege of Berwick (1333)Edward III of England