June 20
June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. EventsBefore 1900451- 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 was attacked by Algerian pirates.1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwater.1756 - English 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. 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 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. 1893 - Lizzie Borden is found innocent of murdering her stepmother and father.
1900-19991919 - 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 Ashbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.1963 - "Hotline" established between Soviet Union and United States.1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels of wheat to Soviet Union.1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France1977 - 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.1981 - Iran is taken over by what is now known as the Islamic Republic of Iran after two and a half years of intimidation. 1983 - LZW patent filed in USA.1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered.1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.1998 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the sixth annual of the KROQ Weenie Roast with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Blink-182, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Creed, The Crystal Method, Deftones, Everclear, Harvey Danger, Madness, Marcy Playground, Ozomatli, The Prodigy, Save Ferris and Third Eye Blind.
2000-20992001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan2001 - Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and admits to the crime. She would be sentenced to life in prison.2003 - LZW patent expires in USA. 2003 - Bounce premieres at the Goodman Theatre. 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.
Births1500-18991561 - Sigismund, king of Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1632)1634 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675)1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer 1763 - Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, philanthropist, entrepreneur (d. 1820)1797 - Sophie (Frémiet) Rude, French artist (d. 1867)1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, rabbi (d. 1888)1819 - Jacques Offenbach, composer (d. 1880)1887 - Kurt Schwitters, painter (Dadaist), writer (d. 1948)1899 - Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II.
1900-19991905 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (d. 1984)1909 - Errol Flynn, actor (d. 1959)1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, author (d. 2004)1924 - Chet Atkins, country guitar player1931 - Olympia Dukakis, actress 1931 - Martin Landau, actor1936 - Danny Aiello, actor1937 - Donald Sullivan, priest1940 - Eugen Drewermann, theologian 1940 - John Mahoney, actor1941 - Ulf Merbold, physicist and astronaut 1941 - Ilse Ritter, actress1942 - Brian Wilson, bass player and singer for The Beach Boys1944 - Cheryl Holdridge, actress and Mouseketeer1945 - Shekhar Mehta, racer, winner of the Safari Rally 1945 - Anne Murray, singer1946 - Bob Vila, handyman1947 - Dolores "LaLa" Brooks, singer, member of the Crystals1949 - Lionel Richie, musician1951 - Tress MacNeille, voice actress (The Simpsons, Animaniacs, Rugrats)1952 - John Goodman, actor1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer1954 - Michael Anthony, musician, Van Halen1960 - John Taylor, musician, Duran Duran1967 - Nicole Kidman, actress1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid, prince of Morocco1971 - Jeordie White, bassistist for Marilyn Manson from 1990 – 20021985 - Doug Sauve, Lord of Cambridgeshire
Deaths800-1899840 - Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)1597 - Willem Barentsz, navigator, dies in the Arctic1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German baroque composer1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer, politician, military and creator of Argentina's flag.1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom
1900-19991901 - Queen Victoria, queen of the United Kingdom1945 - Bruno Frank, author1947 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster1993 - Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel for President Clinton1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German borderguard, most famous escapee from East Germany.1999 - Clifton Fadiman, author
2000-20992002 - Erwin Chargaff, biochemist 2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter2003 - Bob Stump, Arizona Congressman
Holidays and observancesRoman Empire - Festival in honor of SummanusAncient Latvia - Zalu DienaUNHCR World Refugee Day Flag Day in Argentina (1938) External links BBC: On This Day
June 19 - June 21 - May 20 - July 20 -- listing of all days
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