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June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in Leap Year s) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 194 days remaining.
Events
- ' victory over Attila The Hun .
- 1214 - University Of Oxford receives its charter.
- 1631 - The Sack Of Baltimore : the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
- declares himself King Of England at Bridgwater .
- 1756 - British garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole Of Calcutta .
- 1782 - The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal Of The United States .
- 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath
- 1791 - The Flight To Varennes began.
- 1819 - The US vessel ''Savannah'' arrives at Liverpool , United Kingdom . She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail.
- 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
- 1862 - Barbu Catargiu , the Prime Minister of Romania , is assassinated.
- 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. State .
- 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial Telephone service in Hamilton , Ontario , Canada .
- 1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father.
- 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico .
- 1939 - Benny Goodman 's ''Song School'' ends its radio series.
- 1948 - ''Toast of the Town'', later '' The Ed Sullivan Show '', debuts.
- 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people
- 1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal .
- 1963 - The so-called " Red Telephone " was established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis .
- 1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels (9.14 Teragram s) of Wheat to Soviet Union .
- 1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1973 - Ezeiza Massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers opened up fire on the left-wing peronists. At least 13 deads and more than 300 injured.
- 1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
- 1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic Boxing trilogy with Sugar Ray Leonard by defeating him in Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship.
- 1983 - LZW patent filed in USA.
- 1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered.
- 1991 - German parliament decides to move the Capital from Bonn back to Berlin .
- 2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan
- 2003 - LZW patent expires in USA.
- 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.
- 2004 - Ken Griffey, Jr. becomes the 20th member of the 500 Home Run Club with a Home Run at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri .
- 2005 - Terri Schiavo 's remains are buried in Clearwater, Florida.
Births
- 1005 - Ali Az-Zahir , caliph (d. 1036 )
- 1389 - John, Duke Of Bedford , regent of England (d. 1435 )
- 1566 ( O.S. ) - King Sigismund III Of Poland (d. 1632 )
- 1583 - Jacob De La Gardie , Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652 )
- 1634 - Charles Emmanuel II Of Savoy (d. 1675 )
- 1642 ( O.S. ) - George Hickes , English minister and scholar (d. 1715 )
- 1647 - John George III, Elector Of Saxony (d. 1691 )
- 1717 - Jacques Saly , French sculptor (d. 1776 )
- 1723 ( O.S. ) - Adam Ferguson , Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816 )
- 1723 ( O.S. ) - Theophilus Lindsey , English theologian (d. 1808 )
- 1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus , Swedish composer (d. 1792 )
- 1763 - Wolfe Tone , Irish patriot (d. 1798 )
- 1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl Of Selkirk , Scottish philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1820 )
- 1786 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore , French poet
- 1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch , German rabbi (d. 1888 )
- 1819 - Jacques Offenbach , German composer (d. 1880 )
- 1860 - Jack Worrall , Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937 )
- 1861 - Frederick Hopkins , English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize For Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1947 )
- 1872 - George Carpenter , the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948 )
- 1887 - Kurt Schwitters , German painter and writer (d. 1948 )
- 1891 - John A. Costello , second Taoiseach of the Republic Of Ireland (d. 1976 )
- 1899 - Jean Moulin , French Resistance leader (d. 1943 )
- 1905 - Lillian Hellman , American playwright (d. 1984 )
- 1906 - Catherine Cookson , British novelist (d. 1998 )
- 1909 - Errol Flynn , Australian actor (d. 1959 )
- 1912 - Anthony Buckeridge , English author (d. 2004 )
- 1924 - Chet Atkins , American guitar player
- 1928 - Jean-Marie Le Pen , French politician
- 1930 - Magdalena Abakanowicz , Polish artist
- 1931 - Olympia Dukakis , American actress
- 1931 - Martin Landau , American actor
- 1936 - Danny Aiello , American actor
- 1940 - Eugen Drewermann , German theologian
- 1940 - John Mahoney , English actor
- 1941 - Ulf Merbold , German physicist and astronaut
- 1942 - Brian Wilson , American bass player and singer ( The Beach Boys )
- 1944 - Cheryl Holdridge , American actress
- 1945 - Anne Murray , Canadian singer
- 1946 - Bob Vila , television presenter
- 1946 - Xanana Gusmão , President Of East Timor
- 1947 - Dolores "LaLa" Brooks , American singer The Crystals
- 1947 - Candy Clark , American actress
- 1948 - Ludwig Scotty , President Of Nauru
- 1949 - Lionel Richie , American musician and singer The Commodores
- 1951 - Tress MacNeille , American voice actress
- 1951 - Paul Muldoon , Northern Irish poet
- 1952 - John Goodman , American actor
- 1954 - Michael Anthony , American musician
- 1956 - Ace Andres , American musician
- 1958 - Chuck Wagner , American actor
- 1960 - John Taylor , English musician, Duran Duran
- 1960 - Jeremy Monteiro , Singaporean pianist
- 1963 - Viktor Kožený , Czech businessman
- 1967 - Nicole Kidman , Australian actress
- 1968 - Robert Rodríguez , American filmmaker
- 1970 - Russell Garcia , British field hockey player
- 1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid Of Morocco
- 1971 - Jeordie White , American bassist
- 1977 - Stefán H. Ófeigsson , Iceland ic space engineer
- 1978 - Frank Lampard , English footballer
- 1981 - Ardian Gashi , Norwegian footballer
- 1988 - Shefali Chowdhury , Welsh Actress
Deaths
- 451 - Theodorid , King Of The Visigoths
- 840 - Louis The Pious , King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778 )
- 1597 - Willem Barentsz , Dutch navigator
- 1668 - Heinrich Roth , German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620 )
- 1776 - Benjamin Huntsman , English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704 )
- 1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel , German composer (b. 1723 )
- 1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , German mathematician (b. 1719 )
- 1820 - Manuel Belgrano , Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770 )
- 1837 - William IV Of The United Kingdom (b. 1765 )
- 1866 - Bernhard Riemann , German mathematician (b. 1826 )
- 1925 - Josef Breuer , Austrian psychologist (b. 1842 )
- 1945 - Bruno Frank , German author (b. 1878 )
- 1947 - Bugsy Siegel , American gangster (whacked) (b. 1906 )
- 1958 - Kurt Alder , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902 )
- 1993 - Vince Foster , Deputy White House Counsel (suicide) (b. 1945 )
- 1995 - Emil Cioran , Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (b. 1911 )
- 1998 - Conrad Schumann , East German border guard (b. 1942 )
- 1999 - Clifton Fadiman , American author (b. 1902 )
- 2002 - Erwin Chargaff , Austrian biochemist (b. 1905 )
- 2002 - Tinus Osendarp , Dutch runner (b. 1916 )
- 2003 - Bob Stump , U.S. Congressman from Arizona (b. 1927 )
- 2005 - Jack Kilby , American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physics (b. 1923 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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