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Birthdays occurring on July, 20
| 1932 |
Nam June Paik was born on July 20, 1932
South Korean born American Video artist, creator of the term "telecommunication superhighway" and among the first to use telecommunication satellites for artistic exchange 1932-2006I used the term (information superhighway) in a study I wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1974. I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. That's dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to happen. More quotations from Nam June Paik |
| 1933 |
Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. More quotations from Cormac McCarthy |
Deaths occurring on July, 20
| 1903 |
Leo XIII died on July 20, 1903
People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community. More quotations from Leo XIII |
| 1923 |
Thomas Donnelly died on July 20, 1923
Although the costs of war have grown... the American economy is exponentially larger than it was in the Vietnam War years. When it [the Iraq war] is compared to the overall size of the American economy, it's really a drop in the bucket, certainly by historical standards. More quotations from Thomas Donnelly |
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