BIGpedia - June 20 - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online

June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining.

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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.

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.
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.

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.
2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.

840 - Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)
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

1901 - Queen Victoria, queen of the United Kingdom
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