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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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| : World Refugee Day | refimprove |
| 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 |
| 1782 – The Congress of the Confederation adopted the Great Seal of the United States, used to authenticate certain documents issued by the federal government. | refimprove section |
| 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 |
| 1893 – After a widely publicized trial, American Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother. | 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 |
| 1994 – A bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, left at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured. | short |
| 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 |
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- 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwater.
- 1789 – French Revolution: Meeting in a tennis court near the Palace of Versailles, members of France's Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, pledging not to separate until a new constitution was established.
- 1819 – Arriving in Liverpool, the SS Savannah became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army began a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing.
- 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launched Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war.
- 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 at least 22 fishing boats and causing 35 fatalities.
- 1960 – The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but lasted only two months before dividing into Senegal and Mali.
- 1979 – The execution of Bill Stewart, an American journalist, by Nicaraguan Guardia forces, was captured on tape, resulting in the rapid withdrawal of support for the Somoza regime by the United States.
- 2009 – During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan was captured on video and widely distributed on the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".
- Born/died: Voltairine de Cleyre (d. 1912)
June 20: Flag Day in Argentina
- 451 – Flavius Aetius, with the help of Roman foederati, defeated Attila in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, and halted the invasion of Gaul by the Huns and their allies.
- 1837 – Victoria (pictured) succeeded to the British throne, starting a reign that lasted for more than 63 years.
- 1921 – Workers at the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Madras, India, began a four-month strike.
- 1943 – Rioting between blacks and whites began on Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan, and continued for three days.
- 1975 – The film Jaws was released, becoming the prototypical summer blockbuster and establishing the modern Hollywood business model.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (b. 1743) · Juan Larrea (d. 1847) · Frank Lampard (b. 1978)