20 Juin

The20t o Juinis the 171t day o the year (172t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 194 days ti come.

Events

1837:Accession oQueen Victoria

1884:Pentre IfanNeolithicMonument

• 1605– Efter anly three month astsar,16-year-auldFeodor II o Roushieis assassinatit.
• 1837–Queen Victoriasucceeds tae theBreetishthrone.
• 1863–Wast Virginiebecomes the 35t state o theUnitit States.
• 1870– A peace treaty ends the Triple Alliance War, which wis the bloodiest war inSooth America,parteecularly in terms oParaguay's heich casualty nummers.
• 1884–Pentre Ifanneolithicmonument inPembrokeshire,Wales,is designatit as a Scheduled Monument.
• 1940– Warld War II:Italybegins anunsuccessful invasionoFraunce.
• 1960– TheMali Federationgains unthirldom frae Fraunce (it later splits intaeMalianSenegal).
• 1977–Menachem BeginbecomesPrime meenisteroIsrael.
• 1977– The first oil flows through theAlaskaPipeline.
• 1991– The German pairlament decides tae move the caipital ceety fraeBonntaeBerlin.
• 1992–Estoniedecides tae use the Kroon as its currency.
• 2004– TheFaroese leidWikipaediais creatit.
• 2009–IranianstudentNeda Agha-Soltanis shot an kilt durin the kintra's post-election protests.
• 2010–Juan Manuel Santosis electitPresesoColombie.
• 2019–Iranshuits doon aUnitit Statessurveillance drone ower theStrait o Hormuz;US PresesDonald Trumplater cancels an airstrike onIranin the last minute.
• 2019–Boris JohnsonanJeremy Huntbecome the feenal twa candidates for the leadership o the BreetishConservative PairtyanPrime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
• 2020– Record heich temperaturs are recordit in theAircticRegion;VerkhoyanskinRoushierecords 38 degrees celsius.
• 2020– A stobbin attack in Forbury Gairdens inReading, Berkshire,Ingland,results in the daiths o three fowk.

Births

Jacques Offenbach

Nicole Kidman

• 1566–Sigismund III Vasa,Keeng oPoland(d.1632)
• 1634–Charles Emmanuel II, Duke o Savoy(d.1675)
• 1723–Adam Ferguson,Scots philosopher an historian (d.1816)
• 1771–Thomas Douglas, 5t Yerl o Selkirk,Scots peer (d.1820)
• 1819–Jacques Offenbach,German-French componer (d.1880)
• 1855–Archibald Hay, 13t Yerl o Kinnoull,Scots peer an sodger (d.1916)
• 1861–Frederick Gowland Hopkins,Inglis biochemist (d.1947)
• 1873–Willie Orr,Scots fitbawer (d.1946)
• 1891–John A. Costello,ErseTaoiseach(d.1976)
• 1909–Errol Flynn,Australie-American actor (d.1959)
• 1913–Infante Juan, Coont o Barcelona,Spaingie ryal (d.1993)
• 1928–Martin Landau,American actor (d.2017)
• 1928–Jean-Marie Le Pen,French politeecian
• 1931–Olympia Dukakis,American actress
• 1934–Graham Leggat,Scots fitbawer (d.2015)
• 1943–Gordon Wallace,Scots fitbawer
• 1946–Xanana Gusmao,umwhilePresesoEast Timor
• 1949–Gotabaya Rajapaksa,PresesoSri Lanka
• 1949–Lionel Richie,American sangster
• 1950–Nouri al-Maliki,Iraqi politeecian
• 1952–John Goodman,American actor
• 1952–Vikram Seth,Indie writer
• 1954–Ilan Ramon,Israeli astronaut (d.2003)
• 1967–Nicole Kidman,Australie actress
• 1968–Mateusz Morawiecki,Prime meenisteroPoland
• 1972–Craig Thomson,Scots fitbaw referee
• 1978–Frank Lampard,Inglis fitbawer
• 1995–Caroline Weir,Scots fitbawer
• 1997–Luke Watt,Scots fitbawer

Daiths

• 1597-Willem Barentsz,Dutch splorer (b.1550)
• 1605-Feodor II o Roushie(b.1589)
• 1837-William IV o the Unitit Kinrick(b.1765)
• 1897-Margaret Oliphant,Scots novelist (b.1828)
• 1933-Clara Zetkin,German communist politeecian an advocate oweemen's richts(b.1857)
• 1958-Kurt Alder,German chemist (b.1902)
• 1968-Jimmy Cowan,Scots fitbawer (b.1926)
• 2005-Jack Kilby,American electrical ingineer (b.1923)
• 2009-Neda Agha-Soltan,Iranian student (b.1983)

Halidays

• Day o the Naitional Banner (Argentinae)
• Warld Refugee Day
• NorthrenSimmerSolstice (in lowp years)
• SoothrenWinterSolstice (in lowp years)