June 20
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June 20 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining after June 20 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1566 – Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland and Sweden (d. 1632)
- 1723 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816)
- 1819 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (d. 1880)
- 1858 – Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
- 1861 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English chemist, won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1947)
- 1891 – John A. Costello, Irish Taoiseach (d. 1976)
- 1897 – Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973)
- 1905 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
- 1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (d. 1959)
- 1913 – Lilian Jackson Braun, American author (d. 2011)
- 1924 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist and producer (d. 2001)
- 1924 – Fritz Koenig, German sculptor
- 1927 – Josef Posipal, German footballer and manager (d. 1997)
- 1928 – Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician
- 1928 – Martin Landau, American actor
- 1931 – Olympia Dukakis, American actress
- 1942 – Brian Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys)
- 1945 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer
- 1946 – Xanana Gusmao, former President of East Timor
- 1948 – Ludwig Scotty, former President of Nauru
- 1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer and musician
- 1950 – Nouri al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq
- 1951 – Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
- 1952 – John Goodman, American actor
- 1952 – Vikram Seth, Indian poet
- 1954 – Michael Anthony, American musician (Van Halen)
- 1959 – Chris Williams, African-American actor
- 1960 – John Taylor, British musician ("Duran Duran")
- 1967 – Nicole Kidman, Australian actress
- 1970 – Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
- 1976 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
- 1978 – Frank Lampard, English footballer
- 1980 – Carlo Festuccia, Italian rugby player
- 1982 – Aleksei Berezutski, Russian footballer
- 1982 – Vasili Berezutski, Russian footballer
- 1982 – Example, English rapper
- 1987 – Itumeleng Khune, South African footballer
- 1989 – Javier Pastore, Argentine footballer
[change] 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, navigator (b. 1550)
- 1605 – Tsar Feodor II of Russia (b. 1589)
- 1787 – Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer
- 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)
- 1888 – Johannes Zukertort, German chess player (b. 1847)
- 1933 – Clara Zetkin, German politician and feminist (b. 1857)
- 1945 – Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
- 1947 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (b. 1906)
- 1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1966 – Georges Lemaitre, Belgian theologian and astrophysicist (b. 1894)
- 1995 – Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Conrad Schumann, East German borderguard, most famous escapee from East Germany (b. 1942)
- 1999 – Clifton Fadiman, author (b. 1902)
- 2002 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
- 2002 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Bob Stump, U.S. Congressman from Arizona (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Neda Agha-Soltan, Iranian student (shot), symbol of the resistance to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (b. 1982)
- 2010 – Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Ryan Dunn, American television star and stuntman (b. 1977)
[change] Events
- 451- 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 – In China, the Boxer Rebellion begins.
- 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.
- 1981 – Iran is taken over by what is now known as the Islamic Republic of Iran after two and a half years of intimidation.
- 1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
- 1991 – German parliament decides to move the capital city from Bonn back to Berlin.
- 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 – Formation of Wikimedia Foundation is announced.
- 2009 – In Tehran, student Neda Agha-Soltan is shot dead. As it happened during post-election protests, she becomes a symbol of the Iranian opposition.
[change] Observances
- World Refugee Day
- Flag Day (Argentina)
- West Virginia Day
- In Leap years: Northern Summer solstice and Southern Winter solstice
