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June 20
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
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