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June 20
(Redirected from 20 June)
June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining.
Events
Before 1900
1900-1999
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1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
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1939 - Benny Goodman's Song School ends its radio series.
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1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
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1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Ashbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people
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1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.
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1963 - "Hotline" established between Soviet Union and United States.
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1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels of wheat to Soviet Union.
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1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France
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1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
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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.
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1981 - Iran is taken over by what is now known as the Islamic Republic of Iran after two and a half years of intimidation.
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1983 - LZW patent filed in USA.
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1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered.
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1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
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1998 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the sixth annual of the KROQ Weenie Roast with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Blink-182, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Creed, The Crystal Method, Deftones, Everclear, Harvey Danger, Madness, Marcy Playground, Ozomatli, The Prodigy, Save Ferris and Third Eye Blind.
2000-2099
Births
1500-1899
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1561 - Sigismund, king of Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1632)
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1634 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675)
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1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer
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1763 - Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
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1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, philanthropist, entrepreneur (d. 1820)
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1797 - Sophie (Frémiet) Rude , French artist (d. 1867)
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1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, rabbi (d. 1888)
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1819 - Jacques Offenbach, composer (d. 1880)
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1887 - Kurt Schwitters, painter (Dadaist), writer (d. 1948)
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1899 - Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II.
1900-1999
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1905 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (d. 1984)
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1909 - Errol Flynn, actor (d. 1959)
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1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, author (d. 2004)
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1924 - Chet Atkins, country guitar player
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1931 - Olympia Dukakis, actress
- 1931 - Martin Landau, actor
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1936 - Danny Aiello, actor
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1937 - Donald Sullivan, priest
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1940 - Eugen Drewermann, theologian
- 1940 - John Mahoney, actor
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1941 - Ulf Merbold, physicist and astronaut
- 1941 - Ilse Ritter , actress
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1942 - Brian Wilson, bass player and singer for The Beach Boys
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1944 - Cheryl Holdridge, actress and Mouseketeer
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1945 - Shekhar Mehta , racer, winner of the Safari Rally
- 1945 - Anne Murray, singer
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1946 - Bob Vila, handyman
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1947 - Dolores "LaLa" Brooks, singer, member of the Crystals
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1949 - Lionel Richie, musician
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1951 - Tress MacNeille, voice actress (The Simpsons, Animaniacs, Rugrats)
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1952 - John Goodman, actor
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1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer
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1954 - Michael Anthony, musician, Van Halen
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1960 - John Taylor, musician, Duran Duran
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1967 - Nicole Kidman, actress
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1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid, prince of Morocco
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1971 - Jeordie White, bassist for Marilyn Manson from 1990 – 2002
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1985 - Doug Sauve , Lord of Cambridgeshire
Deaths
800-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
June 19 - June 21 - May 20 - July 20 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 08-09-2005 20:43:46
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