Notable Historical Events on June 20th
June 20th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
451 |
Germans & Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields |
1212 |
French & Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo |
1214 |
The University of Oxford receives its charter. |
1530 |
German Parliament joins to Augsburg together |
1547 |
Count Philip van Hessen captured |
1567 |
Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique |
1582 |
Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines |
1591 |
Mauritius & Willem van Nassau occupy Devente |
1631 |
The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates. |
1632 |
Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area |
1633 |
Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore |
1656 |
Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw |
1675 |
Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom |
1756 |
Black Hole of Calcutta - 146 British soldiers imprisoned in small dungeon in Calcutta, India where most die |
1756 |
Siraj ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes Calcutta from the British |
1779 |
Battle of Stone Ferry |
1782 |
Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol |
1787 |
Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States. |
1789 |
Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken |
1791 |
King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution |
1819 |
320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic) |
1825 |
Coronation of French King Charles X the Bourbon |
1826 |
Siam and Britain sign trade/peace treaty |
1837 |
Britain issues its 1st stamp, 1 penny Queen Victoria |
1837 |
Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 |
1840 |
Samuel Morse patents his telegraph |
1855 |
Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin |
1862 |
Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated. |
1863 |
1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa) |
1863 |
Skirmish at Greencastle Pennsylvania |
1863 |
West Virginia admitted as 35th US state |
1864 |
Battle of Kinston NC & Battle of Abingdon VA |
1864 |
Battle of Petersburgs VA - in trenches |
1864 |
Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs Georgia |
1866 |
Italy declares war on Austria |
1867 |
US President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska |
1871 |
Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss |
1874 |
1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons) |
1888 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas |
1893 |
Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass |
1895 |
1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin) from an American University |
1895 |
Canal of Smock officially opens |
1895 |
Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation |
1900 |
In China, most foreigners in the Peking legations now accept that they are under siege by Boxers |
1900 |
Baron Von Ketteler, German Minister, decides to go to the Chinese authorities to demand more guards for European protection from Boxers and is killed by Boxers en route |
1901 |
Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college |
1907 |
1st Portland Rose festival |
1909 |
1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring) |
1910 |
"Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal |
1911 |
NAACP incorporates (NY) |
1912 |
NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice) |
1912 |
NY Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12 |
1913 |
3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman |
1913 |
Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader |
1914 |
46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20 |
1915 |
German offensive in Argonnes |
1919 |
German government of Scheideman resigns |
1919 |
Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria |
1919 |
150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. |
1920 |
Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed |
1921 |
11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record) |
1921 |
At the Imperial Conference in London, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, the Indian representative, puts forward a case for the granting of full citizenship rights to Indians in South Africa and other British colonies; the South African Prime Minister, General J.C. Smuts, opposes Sastris resolution, claiming that he cannot grant the franchise to Indians while withholding it from Blacks |
1926 |
Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University |
1930 |
65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake |
1931 |
Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian |
1932 |
A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935) |
1936 |
Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2 |
1939 |
Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants |
1940 |
Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
1941 |
German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas |
1942 |
Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews |
1942 |
German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa |
1943 |
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded |
1943 |
Detroit race riot kills 35 |
1943 |
German round up Jews in Amsterdam |
1943 |
National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes |
1943 |
New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km dia) |
1943 |
Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track & field championship in NY |
1944 |
Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency |
1944 |
Heavy storm hits the Channel |
1944 |
Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz |
1944 |
Soviet forces conquer Wiborg |
1944 |
US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea |
1944 |
US troops occupy Biak |
1946 |
NYC transit begins using PA system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line |
1947 |
Pres Harry Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act |
1948 |
"Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV |
1948 |
20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo |
1948 |
Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader |
1948 |
Deutsche Mark introduced in West Germany |
1949 |
Central Intelligence Agency Act passes |
1950 |
Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia |
1950 |
Joe DiMaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2 |
1951 |
Cleve Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox |
1953 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
1955 |
"Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1956 |
Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed |
1956 |
At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there) |
1958 |
NZ all out 47 v England at Lord's, Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17 |
1960 |
12th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt win |
1960 |
Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France |
1960 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
1963 |
1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2 |
1963 |
Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income |
1963 |
US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line" |
1964 |
64th US Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional CC MD |
1965 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
1966 |
66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF |
1966 |
Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman |
1967 |
Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services |
1967 |
Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time |
1968 |
Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds |
1968 |
Catholic Irish Civil rights activists protest against discrimination in the allocation of housing by illegally occupying a house in Caledon, County Tyrone |
1968 |
Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and a number of other people, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squating' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
1969 |
150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear |
1969 |
Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France |
1969 |
White Rhodesia agrees to race separation |
1970 |
"Ray Stevens Show" debuts on NBC-TV |
1970 |
British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher in the Cabinet) |
1970 |
Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR |
1971 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open |
1972 |
Secret Meeting Between IRA and British Officials held |
1973 |
Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout) |
1973 |
Juan Peron returns to Argentina |
1973 |
SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs |
1973 |
Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. |
1974 |
"Chinatown", starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, is released |
1976 |
76th US Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga |
1976 |
Carl Fugate, Starkweather accomplice, paroled |
1976 |
Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ |
1976 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
1976 |
River Country opens |
1977 |
Menahem Begin forms Israeli government |
1977 |
Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez |
1978 |
1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota & Dayton |
1980 |
"Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters |
1980 |
California Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs & double to beat Red Sox 20-2 |
1980 |
Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision |
1981 |
Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats |
1981 |
Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime |
1981 |
Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection |
1982 |
82nd US Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach GL Calif |
1982 |
Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington |
1982 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1982 |
Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz) |
1983 |
83rd US Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont CC PA |
1983 |
NY Yankee Bobby Murcer retires |
1983 |
Iran moves into northern Iraq (casualties top 13,800 in ten days) |
1984 |
Oakland A's Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam & 14th lifetime |
1984 |
Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1986 |
Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon |
1986 |
Jim Fregosi replaces Tony La Russa as White Sox manager |
1987 |
Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1988 |
Curtis Strange wins US Open golf tournament |
1988 |
Haiti's general assembly dissolves |
1988 |
NYC WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of NJ Devils |
1988 |
Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera |
1988 |
WABC officially becomes the NJ Devils new home radio |
1988 |
Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women & minorities |
1990 |
40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran |
1990 |
Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of US |
1990 |
Asteroid Eureka is discovered. |
1991 |
The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. |
1992 |
Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Balt Orioles) |
1992 |
Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Washington Capitals to the Detroit Red Wings |
1993 |
47th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2 |
1993 |
93rd US Golf Open: Lee Janzen shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
1993 |
Tammie Green wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
1994 |
Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed) |
1994 |
Ernie Els win's 1994 Golf US Open |
1994 |
Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network |
1994 |
OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman |
1995 |
Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun |
1996 |
Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), launches into space |
1996 |
The Venezuelan Congress approves deals which allow foreign oil companies to explore and produce oil in Venezuela for the first time since the country's 1975 nationalization of the oil industry |
1997 |
Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry |
1999 |
99th US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 279 at Pinehurst CC |
2004 |
104th US Golf Open: Retief Goosen shoots a 276 at Shinnecock Hills GC NY |
2006 |
60th NBA Championship: Miami Heat beat Dallas Mavericks, 4 games to 2 |
2010 |
110th US Golf Open: Graeme McDowell shoots a 284 at Pebble Beach GL CA |
2012 |
Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500 |
2012 |
A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising |
2013 |
Miami heat defeat San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Finals 4-3 |
2013 |
LeBron James is named NBA finals MVP for the second straight year |
2013 |
67th NBA Championship: Miami Heat beat San Antonio Spurs, 4 games to 3 |
2016 |
Cavaliers' James named Most Valuable Player of NBA Finals |
2016 |
LeBron James fulfills promise to bring a title to Cleveland |
2016 |
LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers beat Golden State Warriors for NBA title |
2017 |
China tour agency says won't take more US tourists to NKorea |
2018 |
North Korea expected to return remains of up to 200 US service members lost in Korean War |
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