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June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining.
Events
1200-1899
1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter.
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
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.
1900-1999
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 Ashbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people
1960 - 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 France
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.
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.
2000-2099
2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan
2001 - 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.
Births
1500-1899
1561 - 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 patriot
1771 - 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.
1900-1999
1905 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (d. 1984)
1909 - Errol Flynn, actor (d. 1959)
1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, author (d. 2004)
1924 - Chet Atkins, country guitar player
1931 - Olympia Dukakis, actress
1931 - Martin Landau, actor
1936 - Danny Aiello, actor
1937 - Donald Sullivan, priest
1940 - Eugen Drewermann, theologian
1940 - John Mahoney, actor
1941 - Ulf Merbold, physicist and astronaut
1941 - Ilse Ritter, actress
1942 - Brian Wilson, bass player and singer for The Beach Boys
1944 - Cheryl Holdridge, actress and Mouseketeer
1945 - Shekhar Mehta, racer, winner of the Safari Rally
1945 - Anne Murray, singer
1946 - Bob Vila, handyman
1947 - Dolores "LaLa" Brooks, singer, member of the Crystals
1949 - Lionel Richie, musician
1951 - Tress MacNeille, voice actress (The Simpsons, Animaniacs, Rugrats)
1952 - John Goodman, actor
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer
1967 - Nicole Kidman, actress
1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid, prince of Morocco
1971 - Jeordie White, bassist for Marilyn Manson from 1990 – 2002
1985 - Doug Sauve, Lord of Cambridgeshire
Deaths
1500-1899
1597 - Willem Barentsz, navigator, dies in the Arctic
1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German baroque composer
1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer, politician, military and creator of Argentina's flag.
1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom
1900-1999
1945 - Bruno Frank, author
1947 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster
1993 - Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel for President Clinton
1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist
1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German borderguard, most famous escapee from East Germany.
1999 - Clifton Fadiman, author
2000-2099
2002 - Erwin Chargaff, biochemist
2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter
2003 - Bob Stump, Arizona Congressman
Holidays and observances
Roman Empire - Festival in honor of Summanus
Ancient Latvia - Zalu Diena
UNHCR World Refugee Day
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