June 20: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

June 20th marks the 171st day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 172nd in case of leap years). There are 194 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Nicole Kidman (1967), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928) and Catherine Ceylac (1954). Holidays and observances around the world include: World Refugee Day.
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Holidays

American Radio Relay League ? Bring your Handy-Talky to Work Day
West Virginia ? West Virginia Day.
Flag Day in Argentina (1938).
UNHCR - World Refugee Day.
Ancient Latvia ? Zalu Diena.
Roman Empire ? Festival in honor of Summanus.
Day of The Royal Victorian Order.
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Events

2019 After it was allegedly violating Iranian airspace, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down an American RQ-4 Global Hawk spy plane.
2018 Sinking of the MV Sinar Bangun. The ferry, designed to carry 43 passengers, sinks at Tigaras, Lake Toba in North Sumatra. 192 people are reported missing.
2017 Syrian Civil War, Military Intervention against ISIL: After Russia threatened that any U.S.-led coalition aircraft flying west of Euphrates would be considered a target, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), suspends combat operations against ISIL in Syria. (The Guardian). A U.S. F-15 destroys an Iranian Shahed 129 drone close to the Jordan-Syria border, where U.S. ground troops are based.
2016 Afghanistan War (2001-present). A minibus transporting private security guards explodes at Kabul, resulting in the deaths of at least 12 and injuries to several others.
2015 Second Libyan Civil War - Dozens of ISIL militants were killed in a militia attack against Derna, the easternmost city. Since the end of 2014, ISIL has been a prominent presence in Derna.
2014 Syrian civil war: Twelve people, including 9 children, are killed when a helicopter from the Syrian Army strikes a refugee camp south of Damascus.
2013 Conflict between Israel and Palestine: The Committee on the Rights of the Child charges Israeli soldiers with torturing Palestinian children, as well as using them to serve human shields.
2012 After seizing four hostages from the Credit Industriel et Commercial bank, in Toulouse in southern France, a gunman was arrested. This is the same bank where Mohammed Merah killed five people in March.
2011 Arab Spring
2010 Manute Bol (7-foot-7-inch, 2.3m), NBA basketball legend (Washington Bullets), from southern Sudan, has died at 47 years old due to kidney problems in Virginia, USA.
2009 Spaceport America is now open in New Mexico, USA. It will be the first commercially-occupied spaceport. The New Mexico government will spend almost US$200million on the project.
2008 The Janus-2 satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a Delta-2 rocket. This satellite will measure the shape of the oceans around the world.
2007 At least ten people are killed in an accidental fire at a Russian nursing home near Omsk.
2006 The Miami Heat beat the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals 4-2.
2005 Chief US Immigration Judge Michael Creppy rules John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-born man, can be deported as he was a guard at a concentration camp during World War II.
2004 India and Pakistan reached an agreement in Qingdao (China) to lift a ban on nuclear testing and establish a hotline between foreign secretaries to prevent any misinterpretations that could lead to a nuclear conflict.
2003 In St. Petersburg, Florida, the WikiMedia Foundation was founded.
2002 Law - The United States Supreme Court asks about the need for Internet filters.
2001 Andrea Yates, a mother of five, drowns her children in a bathtub. She then confesses to her crimes.
1997 Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
1996 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), launches into space
1995 Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun
1994 Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran
1993 47th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1992 Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Baltimore Orioles)
1991 The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
1990 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
1988 Curtis Strange wins US Open golf tournament
1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
1986 Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
1984 The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
1983 83rd US Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
1982 82nd US Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach GL, California
1981 Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
1980 California Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs and double to beat Red Sox 20-2
1979 Bill Stewart, ABC television news correspondant, and his interpreter Juan Espinosa are executed by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier while attempting to film war destruction in Nicaragua. The murders are caught on tape, and the footage is later shown on news broadcasts.
1978 A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves 1 civilian and 3 IRA men dead.
1977 Menahem Begin forms Israeli government
1976 76th US Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth, Georgia
1973 San Francisco Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
1971 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open
1970 Ray Stevens Show, debuts on NBC-TV
1969 Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France
1968 Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 metres in under 10 seconds.
1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1966 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic Country Club - San Francisco
1965 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1964 64th US Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional Country Club - Maryland
1963 Beatles form Beatles Ltd to handle their income
1960 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack and Jane Wyatt
1959 A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1958 The iron barque ''Omega'' of Callao, Peru (built in Scotland, 1887), sinks on passage carrying guano from the Pachacamac Islands for Huacho, the world’s last full rigged ship trading under sail alone.
1956 Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed
1955 Almost Crazy opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances
1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1951 Cleveland Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double and single vs. Red Sox
1950 Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia
1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1948 Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
1947 Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills, California.
1946 New York City transit begins using PA system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line
1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1942 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US Battleship Texas
1940 Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 Test flight of first rocket plane using liquid propellants.
1936 Jesse Owens of the US sets 100m record at 10.2 seconds.
1931 Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian
1930 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
1928 Puniša Račić shoots 3 opposition representatives in the Yugoslavian Parliament, and injures 3 others.
1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black President of Howard University
1921 29.2 cm (11.5 inches) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record).
1919 German government of Scheideman resigns
1915 German offensive in Argonnes
1914 46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20
1913 Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
1912 New York Giants Josh Devore steals four bases in an inning (second and third twice).
1911 NAACP incorporates (New York).
1909 1st balloon honeymoon
1901 Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college
1900 Boxer Rebellion: Boxers gather about 20,000 people near Peking and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.
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