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June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 194 canicule actual until the end of the year.
On bound years, this day usually marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere .
Events
451 – Battle of Chalons : Flavius Aetius ' battles Attila the Hun . After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to adapt it as a victory.1214 – The University of Oxford receives its charter .1631 – The sack of Baltimore : the Irish apple of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates .1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire , served until 21 March 1653.1685 – Monmouth Rebellion : James Scott, 1st Battle of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater .1756 – A British garrison is confined in the Black Hole of Calcutta .1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States .1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to alarm the government the United States .1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate yield the Tennis Court Oath .1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his actual ancestors activate the Flight to Varennes during The French Revolution .1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah Liverpool , United Kingdom . She is the aboriginal steam-propelled barge to cantankerous the Atlantic , although a lot of of the adventure is fabricated beneath sail.1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.1840 – Samuel Morse receives the apparent for the telegraph .1862 – Barbu Catargiu , the Prime Minister of Romania , is assassinated.1863 – American Civil War : West Virginia is accepted as the 35th U.S. state .1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's aboriginal bartering telephone account in Hamilton , Ontario , Canada .1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her ancestor and stepmother.1919 – 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico .1944 – World War II : The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a absolute U.S. naval victory. The askew argosy air activity is aswell accepted as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”.1944 – Continuation war : Soviet Abutment demands for an actual abandonment from Finland during the alpha of partially acknowledged Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive . Finnish government declines the demand.
1948 – Toast of the Town The Ed Sullivan Show television debut.1956 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park , New Jersey , killing 74 people.1959 – A attenuate June hurricane addled Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.1960 – Independence of Mali and Senegal .1963 – The alleged "red telephone " is accustomed amid the Soviet Union and the United States afterward the Cuban Missile Crisis .1973 – Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires , Argentina . Snipers blaze aloft left-wing Peronists . At atomic 13 are asleep and added than 300 are injured.1979 – ABC News contributor Bill Stewart is attempt asleep by a Nicaraguan soldier beneath the administration of Anastasio Somoza Debayle . The annihilation is bent on bandage and sparked all-embracing clamor of the regime.1982 – The Argentine abject (Corbeta Uruguay ) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final activity of the Falklands War .1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered.1991 – The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn aback to Berlin .2003 – The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida .
Births
236 BC – Scipio Africanus , Roman elder and accepted of the Second Punic War (d. 183 BC)1005 – Ali az-Zahir , absolutist (d. 1036)1389 – John, Battle of Bedford , agent of England (d. 1435)1469 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza , battle of Milan (d. 1494)1485 – Astorre III Manfredi , aristocrat of Faenza (d. 1502)1566 – King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland (d. 1632)1583 – Jacob De la Gardie , Swedish soldier and elder (d. 1652)1634 – Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675)1642 (O.S. ) – George Hickes , English abbot and academic (d. 1715)1647 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)1699 – William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1737)1717 – Jacques Saly , French sculptor (d. 1776)1723 – Adam Ferguson , Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816)1723 – Theophilus Lindsey , English theologian (d. 1808)
1733 – Betty Washington , sister of George Washington (d. 1797)1737 – Tokugawa Ieharu , Japanese Shogun (d. 1786)1754 – Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1832)1756 – Joseph Martin Kraus , Swedish artisan (d. 1792)1761 – Jacob Hübner , German entomologist (d. 1826)1763 – Wolfe Tone , Irish patriot (d. 1798)1770 – Moses Waddel , American educator /minister and bestselling columnist (d. 1840)1771 – Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk , Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)1771 – Hermann von Boyen , German army administrator (d. 1848)
1778 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac , French baby-kisser (d. 1832)1786 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore , French artisan (d. 1859)1796 – Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso , Italian basal (d. 1878)1808 – Samson Raphael Hirsch , German clergyman (d. 1888)1813 – Joseph Autran , French artisan (d. 1877)1819 – Jacques Offenbach , German-born French artisan (d. 1880)1855 – Sir Richard Lodge , English historian (d. 1936)1858 – Charles W. Chesnutt , American biographer (d. 1932)1860 – Jack Worrall , Australian cricketer, footballer, and drillmaster (d. 1937)1861 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins , English biochemist, almsman of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d. 1947)1862 – Marco Praga , Italian columnist (d. 1929)1870 – Georges Dufrénoy , French post-impressionnist painter (d. 1943)1872 – George Carpenter , the 5th Accepted of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)1875 – Reginald Punnett , British geneticist (d. 1967)1884 – Johannes Heinrich Schultz , German psychiatrist, psychotherapist (d. 1970)1885 – Andrzej Gawroński , Polish academic (d. 1927)1887 – Kurt Schwitters , German painter and biographer (d. 1948)1889 – John S. Paraskevopoulos , Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951)1891 – John A. Costello , additional Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976)1891 – Giannina Arangi-Lombardi , Italian acute (d. 1951)
1893 – Wilhelm Zaisser , German baby-kisser (d. 1958)1894 – Lloyd Hall , American chemist (d. 1971)1896 – Wilfrid Pelletier , Canadian aqueduct (d. 1982)1897 – Elisabeth Hauptmann , German biographer (d. 1973)1899 – Jean Moulin , French Resistance baton (d. 1943)1905 – Lillian Hellman , American columnist (d. 1984)1907 – Jimmy Driftwood , American songwriter and artisan (d. 1998)1908 – Billy Werber , American baseball amateur (d. 2009)1909 – Errol Flynn , Australian amateur (d. 1959)1911 – Gail Patrick , American extra (d. 1980)1912 – Anthony Buckeridge , English columnist (d. 2004)1915 – Dick Reynolds , Australian rules footballer and drillmaster (d. 2002)1915 – Terence Young , British blur administrator (d. 1994)
1916 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand , arch of Quebec (d. 1973)1916 – Johnny Morris , British children's presenter (d. 1999)
1917 – Igor Śmiałowski , Polish amateur (d. 2006)1918 – George Lynch , American auto racer (d. 1997)1918 – Zoltán Sztáray , Hungarian writer
1920 – Hans Gerschwiler , Swiss amount skater1921 – Byron Farwell , American aggressive historian (d. 1999)1923 – Bjørn Watt-Boolsen , Danish amateur (d. 1998)1924 – Chet Atkins , American guitar amateur and ambassador (d. 2001)1924 – Audie Murphy , American Medal of Honor almsman and amateur (d. 1971)
1924 – Fritz Koenig , German sculptor
1928 – Eric Dolphy , American applesauce artisan (d. 1964)1928 – Jean-Marie Le Pen , French politician
1930 – Paul Pender , American boxer1930 – Magdalena Abakanowicz , Polish artist
1931 – Olympia Dukakis , American actress1931 – Martin Landau , American actor
1931 – James Tolkan , American actor
1932 – Robert Rozhdestvensky , Russian artisan (d. 1994)1933 – Danny Aiello , American actor1934 – Wendy Craig , English actress1934 – Rossana Podestà , Italian actress
1934 – Yuri Vizbor , Russian artisan (d. 1984)
1935 – Len Dawson , American football player1935 – Neal Knox , American gun rights activist (d. 2005)
1936 – Billy Guy , American accompanist (The Coasters ) (d. 2002)1937 – Jerry Keller , American pop accompanist and songwriter1938 – Mickie Most , British almanac ambassador (d. 2003)1939 – Ramakant Desai , Indian cricketer (d. 1998)1940 – Eugen Drewermann , German theologian1940 – John Mahoney , English actor
1941 – Ulf Merbold , German physicist and astronaut1941 – Stephen Frears , English blur director
1942 – Brian Wilson , American artisan (The Beach Boys )1944 – Cheryl Holdridge , American extra (d. 2009)1944 – David Roper , English actor
1945 – Anne Murray , Canadian singer1946 – Bob Vila , American television host1946 – Xanana Gusmão , President of East Timor
1946 – Andre Watts , American pianist
1946 – Lars Vilks , Swedish artist
1947 – Dolores Brooks , American accompanist (the Crystals )1947 – Candy Clark , American actress
1947 – Josef Clemens , German abbey and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
1947 – Ivo Milazzo , Italian banana book artist
1948 – Ludwig Scotty , President of Nauru 1949 – Lionel Richie , American artisan (The Commodores )1949 – Alan Longmuir , Scottish bass guitarist (Bay City Rollers )
1950 – Nouri Al-Maliki , Prime Abbot of Iraq 1951 – Tress MacNeille , American articulation actress1951 – Paul Muldoon , Arctic Irish poet
1951 – Bill Simon , American agent and politician
1952 – John Goodman , American actor1952 – Vince Gotera , American poet
1952 – Larry Riley , American amateur (d. 1992)
1952 – Vikram Seth , Indian poet
1953 – Ulrich Mühe , German amateur (d. 2007)1953 – Raúl Ramírez , Mexican tennis player
1953 – Willy Rampf , German F1 abstruse administrator (BMW , Sauber )
1954 – Michael Anthony , American artisan (Van Halen )1954 – Ilan Ramon , Israeli action pilot and astronaut (d. 2003)
1954 – Allan Lamb , South African built-in English cricketer
1956 – Peter Reid , English above footballer1957 – Koko B. Ware , American able wrestler1958 – Chuck Wagner , American actor1958 – Ron Hornaday , American racecar driver
1960 – John Taylor , English artisan (Duran Duran )1963 – Amir Derakh , American artisan (Orgy )1963 – Don West , American able angry announcer
1964 – Pierfrancesco Chili , Italian motorcycle racer1964 – Silke Möller , German clue and acreage athlete
1967 – Nicole Kidman , American-born Australian actress1968 – Robert Rodriguez , American blur director1968 – Gary Speed , Welsh footballer
1969 – MaliVai Washington , American tennis player1969 – Misha Verbitsky , Russian mathematician
1969 – Peter Paige , American actor
1970 – Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco 1970 – Andrea Nahles , German politician
1970 – Bruce Woodcock , American computer amateur analyst
1971 – Josh Lucas , American actor1971 – Jeordie White , American artisan (Marilyn Manson )
1971 – Josh Kronfeld , New Zealander rugby abutment footballer
1972 – Alexis Alexoudis , Greek footballer1972 – Paul Bako , American baseball player
1973 – Chino Moreno , American artisan (Deftones )
1974 – Attila Czene , Hungarian swimmer1974 – Tuta , Brazilian footballer
1975 – Daniel Zítka , Czech footballer1976 – Jerome Fontamillas , American artisan (Switchfoot )1976 – Carlos Lee , Panamanian baseball player
1976 – Rob Mackowiak , American baseball player
1976 – Juliano Belletti , Brazilian footballer
1977 – Gordan Giriček , Croatian basketball player1978 – LaVar Arrington , American football player1978 – Quinton Jackson , American alloyed aggressive artist
1978 – Frank Lampard , English footballer
1978 – Jan-Paul Saeijs , Dutch footballer
1978 – Bobby Seay , American baseball player
1978 – Mike Birbiglia , comedian
1979 – Charlotte Hatherley , English guitarist (Ash )1979 – Charles Howell III , American able golfer
1979 – Cael Sanderson , American olympic bathe wrestler
1980 – Carlo Festuccia , Italian rugby abutment footballer1980 – Fabian Wegmann , German alley antagonism cyclist
1980 – Tony Lovato , American accompanist and guitarrist (Mest )
1980 – Franco Semioli , Italian footballer
1981 – Ardian Gashi , Albanian-Norwegian footballer1981 – Angerfist , Dutch musician
1982 – Aleksei Berezutski , Russian footballer1982 – Vasili Berezutski , Russian footballer
1982 – George Forsyth , Peruvian footballer
1982 – Example (rapper) , British rapper
1983 – Darren Sproles , American football player1983 – Josh Childress , American basketball player
1983 – Cherrie Ying , Hong Kong actress
1985 – Matt Flynn , American football player1985 – Souleymane Mamam , Togolese footballer
1985 – Darko Miličić , Serbian basketball player
1985 – Halil Savran , German footballer
1987 – Carsten Ball , Australian tennis player1988 – Shefali Chowdhury , Welsh actress1989 – Christopher Mintz-Plasse , American actor1989 – Terrelle Pryor , American football player
1989 – Javier Pastore , Argentine footballer
1997 – Maria Lark , Russian-born American actress
Deaths
451 – Theodorid , King of the Visigoths 840 – Louis the Pious , Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)885 – Bernard Plantapilosa , Count of Auvergne (b. 841)1176 – Mikhail of Vladimir , Russian prince1597 – Willem Barentsz , Dutch navigator (b. 1550)1605 – Feodor II of Russia , tsar of Russia (b. 1589)1668 – Heinrich Roth , German Sanskrit academic (b. 1620)1776 – Benjamin Huntsman , English artisan and architect (b. 1704)1787 – Carl Friedrich Abel , German artisan (b. 1723)1800 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , German mathematician (b. 1719)1810 – Count Axel von Fersen the Younger , Swedish elder (b. 1755)1820 – Manuel Belgrano , Argentine advocate and baby-kisser (b. 1770)1840 – Pierre Claude François Daunou , French elder and historian (b. 1761)1837 – William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)1869 – Toshizou Hijikata , Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)1870 – Jules de Goncourt , French biographer (b. 1830)1872 – Elie Frédéric Forey , French accepted (b. 1804)1888 – Johannes Zukertort , German-Polish-Jewish chess adept (b. 1842)1906 – John Clayton Adams , British mural artisan (b. 1840)1925 – Josef Breuer , Austrian analyst (b. 1842)1929 – Emmanuel Benakis , Greek merchant and baby-kisser (b. 1843)1945 – Bruno Frank , German columnist (b. 1878)1945 – Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón , Spanish prince (b. 1888)
1947 – Bugsy Siegel , American abomination amount (b. 1906)1952 – Luigi Fagioli , Italian chase car disciplinarian (b. 1898)1958 – Kurt Alder , German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)1963 – Raphaël Salem , Greek mathematician (b. 1898)1965 – Bernard Baruch , American presidential adviser and financier (b. 1870)1972 – Howard Johnson , American businessman, artist of restaurant alternation (b. 1897)1974 – Horace Lindrum , Australian snooker and billiards amateur (b. 1912)1976 – Lou Klein , American baseball amateur (b. 1918)1978 – Mark Robson , Canadian blur administrator and ambassador (b. 1913)1984 – Estelle Winwood , English extra (b. 1883)1995 – Emil Cioran , Romanian-born French philosopher (b. 1911)1996 – Jim Ellison , singer/guitarist for (Material Issue ) (b. 1964)1997 – Lawrence Payton , American accompanist (The Four Tops ) (b. 1938)1998 – Conrad Schumann , East German bound bouncer (b. 1942)1999 – Clifton Fadiman , American columnist (b. 1902)2002 – Erwin Chargaff , Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)2002 – Tinus Osendarp , Dutch agent (b. 1916)
2003 – Bob Stump , American baby-kisser (b. 1927)2005 – Jack Kilby , American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (b. 1923)2005 – Larry Collins , American biographer (b. 1929)
2006 – Billy Johnson , American baseball amateur (b. 1918)2007 – Trevor Henry , New Zealand amends (b. 1902)2010 – Harry Blackmore Whittington , British palaeontologist (b. 1916)
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