June 20

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 20. From 1900 until now. June 20 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Nicole Kidman (1967), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928) and Catherine Ceylac (1954). Several movies were released around June 20 over the years, such as The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in 1972 directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and The Secret of NIMH in 1982 directed by Don Bluth.
But much more happened on June 20 over the years: find out below

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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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2019 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shoots down an American RQ-4 Global Hawk spy drone after it allegedly violates Iranian airspace. (RTÉ)
2018 Sinking of MV Sinar Bangun: The MV Sinar Bangun, a ferry designed to hold 43 people, sinks at Tigaras port in Lake Toba, North Sumatra, leaving 192 reported missing. (ABC News)
2017 Syrian Civil War, Military intervention against ISIL: The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) suspends combat missions against ISIL over Syria, following Russia's threat that it would treat any aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition flying west of the Euphrates as a potential target. (The Guardian)A U.S. F-15 shoots down an Iranian Shahed 129 drone near the Jordan–Syria border where U.S. ground forces are based. (BBC)
2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): A minibus carrying private security guards explodes in Kabul resulting in the death of at least 12 people and injuring several others. (Reuters and NBC News)
2015 Second Libyan Civil War: Dozens of ISIL militants are killed following a militia attack on the eastern city of Derna. ISIL has had a significant presence in Derna since the end of 2014. (Yahoo)
2014 Syrian civil war:: 12 people including 9 children are killed when a Syrian army helicopter strikes a refugees camp south of Damascus. (Middle East Eye)
2013 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The Committee on the Rights of the Child accuses Israeli soldiers of torturing Palestinian children and using them as human shields. (Reuters)
2012 A gunman is detained after seizing four hostages at the Crédit Industriel et Commercial bank in the southern French city of Toulouse, the same city where Mohammed Merah shot dead five people in March. (BBC)
2011 Arab Spring:
2010 Manute Bol, 7-foot 7-inch (2.3m) NBA basketball legend (Washington Bullets) from southern Sudan, dies at age 47 of kidney problems in Virginia, USA.
2009 Ground is broken in New Mexico, USA, on the construction site of Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport. It will cost the New Mexico government almost US$200 million.
2008 The Janus-2 satellite is launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, atop a Delta-2 rocket. The satellite will be used for measuring the shape of the world's oceans.
2007 A fire in a Russian nursing home in Omsk kills at least ten people. (BBC)
2006 The Miami Heat win the NBA Finals over the Dallas Mavericks, 4-2.
2005 Chief US immigration judge Michael Creppy rules that Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk can be deported because he was a concentration camp guard during World War II (WBNS, Ohio) (Washington Post) (Reuters)
2004 India and Pakistan agreed in Qingdao, China, to extend a nuclear testing ban and to set up a hotline between their foreign secretaries aimed at preventing misunderstandings that might lead to a nuclear war. (CNN)
2003 The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
2002 Law – The United States Supreme Court is asked about requiring Internet filters.
2001 Andrea Yates drowns her five children in a bathtub and 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 (70 killed)
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 (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
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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