
June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ==Events== *451- The Battle of Chalons, Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun. *1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter. *1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates. *1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself List of British monarchs at Bridgwater. *1756 - British garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. * 1782 - The Congress of the United States adopts the Great Seal of the United States. *1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath * 1791 - The Flight to Varennes began. *1819 - The US vessel ''Savannah'' arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail. *1837 - Victoria of the United Kingdom succeeds to the British throne. *1862 - Barbu Catargiu is assassinated. *1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. *1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. * 1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father. *1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. *1939 - Benny Goodman's ''Song School'' ends its radio series. *1948 - ''Toast of the Town'', later ''The Ed Sullivan Show'', debuts. *1956 - A Venezuelan Lockheed Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people *1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal. *1963 - The so-called "red telephone" was established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. *1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels of wheat to Soviet Union. *1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France of France *1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). *1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic Boxing trilogy with Sugar Ray Leonard by defeating him in Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship. *1983 - LZW patent filed in USA. *1990 - Asteroid 5261 Eureka discovered. *1991 - Germany parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. *2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan *2001 - In Texas, USA, Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and admits to the crime. She would be sentenced to life in prison. *2003 - LZW patent expires in USA. * 2003 - Bounce (musical) premieres at the Goodman Theatre. * 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia announced. ==Births== *1561 - Sigismund I of Sweden, king of Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1632) *1634 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675) *1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer * 1763 - Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot *1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, philanthropist, entrepreneur (d. 1820) *1797 - Sophie (Frémiet) Rude, French artist (d. 1867) *1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, Rabbi (d. 1888) *1819 - Jacques Offenbach, composer (d. 1880) *1887 - Kurt Schwitters, painter (Dadaism), writer (d. 1948) *1894 - Lloyd Augustus Hall, pioneer of food chemistry *1899 - Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II. *1905 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (d. 1984) *1909 - Errol Flynn, actor (d. 1959) *1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, author (d. 2004) *1924 - Chet Atkins, country guitar player *1931 - Olympia Dukakis, actress * 1931 - Martin Landau, actor *1936 - Danny Aiello, actor *1937 - Donald Sullivan, priest *1940 - Eugen Drewermann, theologian * 1940 - John Mahoney, actor *1941 - Ulf Merbold, physicist and astronaut * 1941 - Ilse Ritter, actress *1942 - Brian Wilson, bass player and singer for The Beach Boys *1944 - Cheryl Holdridge, actress and Mouseketeer *1945 - Shekhar Mehta, racer, winner of the Safari Rally * 1945 - Anne Murray, singer *1946 - Bob Vila, handyman *1947 - Dolores \"LaLa\" Brooks, singer, member of the Crystals *1949 - Lionel Richie, musician *1951 - Tress MacNeille, voice actress (''The Simpsons'', ''Animaniacs'', ''Rugrats'') *1952 - John Goodman, U.S. actor *1954 - Michael Anthony, musician, Van Halen *1960 - John Taylor (Duran Duran), musician, Duran Duran *1961 - Gerald Dixon, NFL player *1967 - Nicole Kidman, actress *1968 - Fred McAfee, *1970 - Moulay Rachid, prince of Morocco *1971 - Jeordie White, bass guitarist for Marilyn Manson from 1990 – 2002 *1978 - Frank Lampard, football player (Chelsea) *1988 - Alexander Matthew Chong, photographer ==Deaths== *451 - Theodorid, Visigoths#Kings_of_the_Visigoths *840 - Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778) *1597 - Willem Barentsz, navigator *1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer *1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician *1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom *1866 - Bernhard Riemann, mathematician (b. 1826) *1945 - Bruno Frank, author *1947 - Bugsy Siegel, U.S. gangster *1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) *1993 - Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel (suicide) *1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist *1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German borderguard, most famous escapee from East Germany. *1999 - Clifton Fadiman, author *2002 - Erwin Chargaff, biochemist * 2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter *2003 - Bob Stump, U.S. Congressman from Arizona *2005 - Jack Kilby, Nobel Laureate, founder of the Integrated Circuit ==Holidays and observances== *Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Summanus *Ancient Latvia – Zalu Diena *UNHCR World Refugee Day * Flag Day in Argentina (1938) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/20 BBC: On This Day] ---- June 19 - June 21 - May 20 - July 20 – historical anniversaries fo:20. juni ml:ജൂണ് 20 nds:20 Juni simple:June 20 th:20 มิถุนายน
--User:Maveric149 23:50, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:June 20 selected anniversaries - Template talk:June 20 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:June_20_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Moved births from article: *1982 - Michael Miller, civil rights activist *1983 - Peter Simon, Rugby Player No verification found on either one. Both posted by anon users. I've not even been able to determine where in the world they are supposed to live: U.S., Australia, or where? At the very least, people should write articles about people first, and only then consider including their birth or death dates here. User:Lupo 07:45, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC) == Ian Pilgrim == Who is Ian Pilgrim? No results on google or on imdb. Supposedly a screenwriter, but born in 1984? I removed it from the 'births' section.
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June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ==Events== *451- The Battle of Chalons, Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun. *1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter. *1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates. *1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself List of British monarchs at Bridgwater. *1756 - British garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. * 1782 - The Congress of the United States adopts the Great Seal of the United States. *1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath * 1791 - The Flight to Varennes began. *1819 - The US vessel ''Savannah'' arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail. *1837 - Victoria of the United Kingdom succeeds to the British throne. *1862 - Barbu Catargiu is assassinated. *1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. *1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. * 1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father. *1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. *1939 - Benny Goodman's ''Song School'' ends its radio series. *1948 - ''Toast of the Town'', later ''The Ed Sullivan Show'', debuts. *1956 - A Venezuelan Lockheed Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people *1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal. *1963 - The so-called "red telephone" was established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. *1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels of wheat to Soviet Union. *1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France of France *1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). *1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic Boxing trilogy with Sugar Ray Leonard by defeating him in Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship. *1983 - LZW patent filed in USA. *1990 - Asteroid 5261 Eureka discovered. *1991 - Germany parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. *2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan *2001 - In Texas, USA, Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and admits to the crime. She would be sentenced to life in prison. *2003 - LZW patent expires in USA. * 2003 - Bounce (musical) premieres at the Goodman Theatre. * 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia announced. ==Births== *1561 - Sigismund I of Sweden, king of Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1632) *1634 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675) *1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer * 1763 - Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot *1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, philanthropist, entrepreneur (d. 1820) *1797 - Sophie (Frémiet) Rude, French artist (d. 1867) *1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, Rabbi (d. 1888) *1819 - Jacques Offenbach, composer (d. 1880) *1887 - Kurt Schwitters, painter (Dadaism), writer (d. 1948) *1894 - Lloyd Augustus Hall, pioneer of food chemistry *1899 - Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II. *1905 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (d. 1984) *1909 - Errol Flynn, actor (d. 1959) *1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, author (d. 2004) *1924 - Chet Atkins, country guitar player *1931 - Olympia Dukakis, actress * 1931 - Martin Landau, actor *1936 - Danny Aiello, actor *1937 - Donald Sullivan, priest *1940 - Eugen Drewermann, theologian * 1940 - John Mahoney, actor *1941 - Ulf Merbold, physicist and astronaut * 1941 - Ilse Ritter, actress *1942 - Brian Wilson, bass player and singer for The Beach Boys *1944 - Cheryl Holdridge, actress and Mouseketeer *1945 - Shekhar Mehta, racer, winner of the Safari Rally * 1945 - Anne Murray, singer *1946 - Bob Vila, handyman *1947 - Dolores \"LaLa\" Brooks, singer, member of the Crystals *1949 - Lionel Richie, musician *1951 - Tress MacNeille, voice actress (''The Simpsons'', ''Animaniacs'', ''Rugrats'') *1952 - John Goodman, U.S. actor *1954 - Michael Anthony, musician, Van Halen *1960 - John Taylor (Duran Duran), musician, Duran Duran *1961 - Gerald Dixon, NFL player *1967 - Nicole Kidman, actress *1968 - Fred McAfee, *1970 - Moulay Rachid, prince of Morocco *1971 - Jeordie White, bass guitarist for Marilyn Manson from 1990 – 2002 *1978 - Frank Lampard, football player (Chelsea) *1988 - Alexander Matthew Chong, photographer ==Deaths== *451 - Theodorid, Visigoths#Kings_of_the_Visigoths *840 - Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778) *1597 - Willem Barentsz, navigator *1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer *1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician *1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom *1866 - Bernhard Riemann, mathematician (b. 1826) *1945 - Bruno Frank, author *1947 - Bugsy Siegel, U.S. gangster *1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) *1993 - Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel (suicide) *1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist *1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German borderguard, most famous escapee from East Germany. *1999 - Clifton Fadiman, author *2002 - Erwin Chargaff, biochemist * 2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter *2003 - Bob Stump, U.S. Congressman from Arizona *2005 - Jack Kilby, Nobel Laureate, founder of the Integrated Circuit ==Holidays and observances== *Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Summanus *Ancient Latvia – Zalu Diena *UNHCR World Refugee Day * Flag Day in Argentina (1938) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/20 BBC: On This Day] ---- June 19 - June 21 - May 20 - July 20 – historical anniversaries fo:20. juni ml:ജൂണ് 20 nds:20 Juni simple:June 20 th:20 มิถุนายน
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--User:Maveric149 23:50, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:June 20 selected anniversaries - Template talk:June 20 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:June_20_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Moved births from article: *1982 - Michael Miller, civil rights activist *1983 - Peter Simon, Rugby Player No verification found on either one. Both posted by anon users. I've not even been able to determine where in the world they are supposed to live: U.S., Australia, or where? At the very least, people should write articles about people first, and only then consider including their birth or death dates here. User:Lupo 07:45, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC) == Ian Pilgrim == Who is Ian Pilgrim? No results on google or on imdb. Supposedly a screenwriter, but born in 1984? I removed it from the 'births' section.
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