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.