Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 20
This is a list of selected June 20 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| International Surfing Day (2020); | "3rd Saturday" not cited |
| 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwater. | date unreferenced |
| 1756 – A garrison of the British army in India was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta in conditions so cramped that at least 43 died. | refimprove |
| 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the first Prime Minister of Romania, was assassinated after denying people the right of assembly to commemorate the Revolutions of 1848. | needs more footnotes |
| 1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia was admitted to the Union after it seceded from Virginia and the rest of the Confederacy. | refimprove sections |
| 1887 – Victoria Terminus, now the busiest railway station in India, opened in Bombay on the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. | refimprove section |
| 1895 – The Kiel Canal, connecting the North Sea to the Baltic Sea across the base of the Jutland peninsula in Germany, was officially opened. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – The so-called "red telephone" was established between the White House and the Kremlin, after the Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrated that direct communications between the two nations were necessary. | refimprove section |
| 1973 – Snipers fired into a crowd of Peronists near the Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires, killing at least 13 people and injuring 365 others. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers became the fifth player in Major League Baseball history to hit his 600th career home run. | refimprove section |
| Olympia Dukakis |b|1931 | ITN on 2021-05-06 |
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- 1782 – The Congress of the Confederation adopted the Great Seal of the United States, used to authenticate certain documents issued by the federal government.
- 1819 – Arriving in Liverpool, SS Savannah became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1837 – Victoria succeeded to the British throne, starting a reign that lasted for more than 63 years.
- 1893 – After a widely publicized trial, American Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother.
- 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army began a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing.
- 1943 – Rioting between blacks and whites began on Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan, and continued for three days.
- 1947 – A Mafia hitman murdered gangster Bugsy Siegel, one of the driving forces in the development of the Las Vegas Strip, in Beverly Hills, California.
- 1959 – The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada, capsizing 22 fishing boats and causing 35 fatalities.
- 1960 – The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but dissolved into Mali and Senegal two months later.
- 1979 – Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces.
- 1982 – The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Armenian Genocide.
- 1994 – A bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, left at least 25 dead and more than 70 injured.
- 2009 – Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead in Tehran during the presidential election protests; footage of her death was widely distributed over the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".
- Born/died: | Adalbert of Magdeburg |d|981| Margareta Ebner |d|1351| Juan Larrea |d|1847| Mary R. Calvert |b|1884| Voltairine de Cleyre |d|1912| Enn Vetemaa |b|1936| Edith Windsor |b|1929| Frank Lampard |b|1978
June 20: World Refugee Day; Flag Day in Argentina (1820)
- 451 – With the help of Roman foederati, Flavius Aetius defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, halting the invasion of Gaul by the Huns and their allies.
- 1789 – French Revolution: Members of the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (depicted), pledging not to separate until a new French constitution was created.
- 1921 – Workers at the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in Madras, India, began a four-month strike.
- 1943 – The Royal Air Force launched Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle-bombing raid of the Second World War.
- 1975 – Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released, which became the prototypical summer blockbuster and established the modern Hollywood business model.
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (b. 1743)
- Gina Krog (b. 1847)
- André Watts (b. 1946)