About June 20
June 20, 2020 is the 172nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 237 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
- 1631 –The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
- 1652 –Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1756 –A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1782 –The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
- 1787 –Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
- 1789 –Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
- 1819 –The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
- 1837 –Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
- 1863 –American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
- 1877 –Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1887 –Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
- 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”.
- 1956 –A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
- 1959 –A rare June hurricane strikes Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
- 1979 –ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
- 2003 –The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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