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This date in recent years

June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. It is the last day of the spring season in the Northern Hemisphere and the last day of the autumn season in the Southern Hemisphere.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
- 4.1 Liturgical feasts
5 External links

[edit] Events

451 - According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' 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.
1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth 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 U.S. 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.
1959 - A train-bus collision near Lauffen, Germany kills 43 people
1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.
1963 - The so-called "red telephone" is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 - Leave it to Beaver ends.
1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels (9.14 teragrams) of wheat to Soviet Union.
1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France.
1973 - Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fired upon left-wing peronists. At least 13 are killed 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 - Andrea Yates drowns her five children in a bathtub in their Houston, Texas home.
2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan.
2003 - LZW patent expires in USA.
2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.
2006 - Hastings, Nebraska experiences a rare heat burst, raising temperatures from the mid-seventies to 94 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of the night.

[edit] Births

1005 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)
1389 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
1566 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa (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 (d. 1820)
1786 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
1819 - Jacques Offenbach, German composer (d. 1880)
1858 - Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
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)
1896 - Wilfrid Pelletier, French Canadian conductor (d. 1982)
1899 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (d. 1943)
1905 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
1907 - Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
1909 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959)
1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004)
1915 - Terence Young, British film director (d. 1994)
1916 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, premier of Quebec (d. 1973)
1924 - Chet Atkins, American guitar player (d. 2001)
1924 - Audie Murphy, American actor (d. 1971)
1928 - Jean-Marie Le Pen, French politician
1930 - Paul Pender, American Boxer
1930 - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish artist
1931 - Olympia Dukakis, American actress
1931 - Martin Landau, American actor
1933 - Danny Aiello, American actor
1934 - Rossana Podestà, Italian actress
1935 - Len Dawson, Former football player
1937 - Jerry Keller, pop singer and songwriter
1938 - Mickie Most, British record producer
1940 - Eugen Drewermann, German theologian
1940 - John Mahoney, English actor
1941 - Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
1942 - Brian Wilson, American musician; founder of 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
1946 - Andre Watts, American pianist
1947 - Dolores Brooks, American singer (the Crystals)
1947 - Candy Clark, American actress
1948 - Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
1949 - Lionel Richie, American musician (The Commodores)
1951 - Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
1951 - Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet
1952 - John Goodman, American actor
1952 - Larry Riley, American actor (d. 1992)
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
1963 - Don West, American professional wrestling announcer
1967 - Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
1968 - Robert Rodríguez, American filmmaker
1970 - Russell Garcia, British field hockey player
1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
1971 - Josh Lucas, American actor
1971 - Jeordie White, American bassist
1973 - Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones)
1977 - Stefán H. Ófeigsson, Icelandic space engineer
1977 - Tika Sumpter, American actress
1978 - Frank Lampard, English footballer
1981 - Ardian Gashi, Norwegian footballer
1981 - Alisan Porter, American actress and singer
1982 - Andy Baddeley, English middle distance runner
1988 - Shefali Chowdhury, Welsh actress

[edit] 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)
1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
1906 - John Clayton Adams, British Landscape Artist (b. 1840)
1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
1945 - Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (whacked) (b. 1906)
1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1963 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
1972 - Howard Deering Johnson, American entrepreneur (b. 1897)
1976 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
1978 - Mark Robson, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1913)
1993 - Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel (b. 1945)
1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher (b. 1911)
1997 - Lawrence Payton, American singer (The Four Tops) (b. 1938)
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, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (b. 1923)
2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)
2006 - Billy Johnson, baseball player (b. 1918)

[edit] Holidays and observances

Day of The Royal Victorian Order.
Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Summanus.
Ancient Latvia – Zalu Diena.
UNHCR - World Refugee Day.
Flag Day in Argentina (1938).
West Virginia – West Virginia Day.
American Radio Relay League – Bring your Handy-Talky to Work Day

[edit] Liturgical feasts

[edit] External links

June 19 - June 21 - May 20 - July 20 – listing of all days


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