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
- 1214 –The University of Oxford receives its charter.
- 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.
- 1782 –The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
- 1789 –Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
- 1840 –Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
- 1863 –American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
- 1895 –The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
- 1900 –Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
- 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 –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.
- 1960 –The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
- 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.
- 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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