SomeFacts | June 20

On this day - June 20

451 — Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius battles Attila the Hun. After ...

1180 — First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.

1295 — The Treaty of Anagni, an attempt mediated by the papacy to end ...

1622 — The Battle of Höchst takes place during the Thirty Years' ...

1631 — The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is ...

1652 — Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman ...

1685 — Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares ...

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.

1787 — Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the ...

1789 — Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.

1791 — King Louis XVI, disguised as a valet, and the French royal ...

1819 — The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United ...

1837 — King William IV dies, and is succeeded by his niece, Victoria.

1840 — Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.

1862 — Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.

1863 — American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. ...

1877 — Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first ...

1893 — Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and ...

1895 — The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and ...

1900 — Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of ...

1900 — Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day ...

1921 — Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of ...

1926 — The 28th International Eucharistic Congress begins in Chicago, ...

1942 — The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed ...

1943 — World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation ...

1943 — The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more ...

1944 — The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of ...

1944 — World War II: During the Continuation War, the Soviet Union ...

1944 — World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with ...

1945 — The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of ...

1948 — The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied ...

1956 — A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean ...

1959 — A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. ...

1960 — The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later ...

1963 — Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the ...

1964 — A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of ...

1972 — Watergate scandal: An 18+1⁄2-minute gap appears in the tape ...

1973 — Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado ...

1973 — Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, ...

1975 — The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the ...

1979 — ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a ...

1982 — The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule ...

1982 — The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide ...

1988 — Haitian president Leslie Manigat is ousted from power in a ...

1990 — The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with ...

1990 — Asteroid Eureka is discovered.

1991 — The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the ...

1994 — The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at ...

1996 — Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-78 to conduct life ...

2003 — The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

2011 — RusAir Flight 9605 crashes in Besovets during approach to ...

2019 — Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American ...

2025 — The first EF5 tornado in 12 years occurs in Enderlin, North ...