About June 20
June 20, 2025 is the 171st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 242 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
June 20: More About This Day
On leap years, this day usually marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere.
What Happened On June 20
- 1652 –Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1685 –Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
- 1756 –A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1787 –Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
- 1840 –Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
- 1863 –American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
- 1893 –Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
- 1895 –The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
- 1921 –Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
- 1943 –The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
- 1944 –Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
- 1944 –World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”.
- 1948 –Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
- 1959 –A rare June hurricane strikes Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
- 1960 –The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
- 1972 –Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
- 1973 –Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
- 1990 –Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
- 1991 –The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
- 2009 –During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is captured on video and spreads virally on the Internet, making it “probably the most widely witnessed death in human history”.
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