About June 20
June 20, 2024 is the 172nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 223 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.
- 1214 –The University of Oxford receives its charter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1840 –Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
- 1862 –Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
- 1887 –Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
- 1893 –Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
- 1900 –Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
- 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.
- 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.
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