About June 20
June 20, 2023 is the 171st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 235 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
- 451 –Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius’ battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
- 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.
- 1837 –Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
- 1862 –Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
- 1877 –Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1921 –Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
- 1942 –The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 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.
- 1948 –Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
- 1956 –A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
- 1960 –The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
- 1963 –The so-called “red telephone” is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1982 –The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
- 1990 –Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
- 2003 –The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- 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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