Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 20
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June 20: World Refugee Day; Flag Day in Argentina (since 1938); West Virginia Day in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
- 451 - The Battle of Chalons against Attila the Hun is the last major battle of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1789 - 577 deputies of the French National Assembly took the Tennis Court Oath, starting the French Revolution.
- 1837 - Queen Victoria (pictured) succeeded to the British throne.
- 1973 - Snipers fired into a crowd of Peronists near the Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing at least 13 people and injuring 365 others.