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Events on the 20th of June in history

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20 Jun 0451 Germans and Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields
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20 Jun 0451 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.
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20 Jun 1212 French and Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo
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20 Jun 1214 The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter.
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20 Jun 1402 Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
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20 Jun 1530 German Parliament joins to Augsburg together
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20 Jun 1547 Count Philip van Hessen captured
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20 Jun 1567 Don Henrique of Brazil, expel Jews
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20 Jun 1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
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20 Jun 1582 Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
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20 Jun 1591 Mauritius and Willem van Nassau occupy Devente
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20 Jun 1631 The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
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20 Jun 1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
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20 Jun 1652 Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
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20 Jun 1656 Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw
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20 Jun 1675 Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan and Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom
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20 Jun 1685 Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
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20 Jun 1756 146 British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
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20 Jun 1756 India rebels defeat Calcutta on British army
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20 Jun 1756 A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
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20 Jun 1779 Battle of Stone Ferry
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20 Jun 1782 The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
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20 Jun 1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol
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20 Jun 1787 Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
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20 Jun 1789 Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
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20 Jun 1789 Oath of the Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
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20 Jun 1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
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20 Jun 1793 Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin
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20 Jun 1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent
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20 Jun 1819 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
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20 Jun 1819 The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
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20 Jun 1825 Coronation of French King Charles X the Bourbon
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20 Jun 1826 Siam / England sign trade / peace treaty
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20 Jun 1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
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20 Jun 1837 Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
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20 Jun 1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
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20 Jun 1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of
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20 Jun 1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph
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20 Jun 1840 Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
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20 Jun 1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
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20 Jun 1862 Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
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20 Jun 1863 Skirmish at Greencastle, Pennsylvania
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20 Jun 1863 American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
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20 Jun 1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
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20 Jun 1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
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20 Jun 1864 Battle of Kinston NC and Battle of Abingdon, Virginia
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20 Jun 1864 Battle of Petersburgs VA - in trenches
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20 Jun 1866 Italy declares war on Austria
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20 Jun 1867 President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
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20 Jun 1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford, Mississippi
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20 Jun 1874 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
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20 Jun 1877 Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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20 Jun 1887 Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
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20 Jun 1888 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas
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20 Jun 1893 Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Massachusetts
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20 Jun 1893 Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
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20 Jun 1893 Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
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20 Jun 1895 Canal of Smock official opens
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20 Jun 1895 The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
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20 Jun 1895 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
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20 Jun 1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe
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20 Jun 1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
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20 Jun 1900 Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
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20 Jun 1900 Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
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20 Jun 1901 Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college
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20 Jun 1907 1st Portland Rose festival
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20 Jun 1909 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
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20 Jun 1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in New York Journal
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20 Jun 1911 NAACP incorporates (NY)
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20 Jun 1912 New York Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)
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20 Jun 1912 New York Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12
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20 Jun 1913 Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
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20 Jun 1913 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman
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20 Jun 1914 46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20
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20 Jun 1915 German offensive in Argonnes
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20 Jun 1917 J Palisa discovers asteroid #876 Scott
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20 Jun 1919 German government of Scheideman resigns
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20 Jun 1919 Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
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20 Jun 1920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
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20 Jun 1921 11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
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20 Jun 1921 Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
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20 Jun 1921 29.2 cm (11.5") of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
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20 Jun 1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
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20 Jun 1930 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
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20 Jun 1931 Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian
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20 Jun 1936 Jesse Owens of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
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20 Jun 1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1817 Katanga
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20 Jun 1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
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20 Jun 1940 Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 Jun 1940 World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
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20 Jun 1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US Battleship Texas
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20 Jun 1942 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
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20 Jun 1942 German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
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20 Jun 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.
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20 Jun 1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
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20 Jun 1943 Detroit race riot kills 35
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20 Jun 1943 German round up Jews in Amsterdam
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20 Jun 1943 National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
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20 Jun 1943 The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
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20 Jun 1943 New Qu
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20 Jun 1943 Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in
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20 Jun 1944 Heavy storm hits the Channel
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20 Jun 1944 Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
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20 Jun 1944 Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
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20 Jun 1944 US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
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20 Jun 1944 US troops occupy Biak
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20 Jun 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".
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20 Jun 1944 Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
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20 Jun 1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
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20 Jun 1945 The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
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20 Jun 1946 New York City transit begins using PA system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line
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20 Jun 1947 President Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
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20 Jun 1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
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20 Jun 1948 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
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20 Jun 1948 Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader
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20 Jun 1948 Deutsche Mark introduced in West-Germany
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20 Jun 1948 Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
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20 Jun 1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
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20 Jun 1950 Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia
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20 Jun 1950 Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
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20 Jun 1951 Cleveland Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double and single vs. Red Sox
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20 Jun 1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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20 Jun 1955 "Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances
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20 Jun 1956 Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed
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20 Jun 1956 A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
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20 Jun 1959 A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
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20 Jun 1960 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack and Jane Wyatt
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20 Jun 1960 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavywgt boxing title
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20 Jun 1960 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown (NYC)
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20 Jun 1960 The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
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20 Jun 1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
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20 Jun 1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
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20 Jun 1963 US and the USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
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20 Jun 1963 The so-called "red telephone" link is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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20 Jun 1963 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2
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20 Jun 1963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
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20 Jun 1964 64th US Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional Country Club - Maryland
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20 Jun 1965 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
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20 Jun 1966 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic Country Club - San Francisco
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20 Jun 1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
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20 Jun 1967 Phillies Larry Jackson beats New York Mets for 18th straight time
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20 Jun 1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
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20 Jun 1968 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
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20 Jun 1969 Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France
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20 Jun 1969 White Rhodesia agrees to race separation
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20 Jun 1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
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20 Jun 1970 "Ray Stevens Show, " debuts on NBC-TV
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20 Jun 1970 British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher)
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20 Jun 1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
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20 Jun 1971 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open
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20 Jun 1972 Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
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20 Jun 1973 San Francisco Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
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20 Jun 1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
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20 Jun 1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2124 Nissen
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20 Jun 1976 76th US Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth, Georgia
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20 Jun 1976 Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ
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20 Jun 1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
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20 Jun 1976 Carl Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled
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20 Jun 1976 River Country opens
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20 Jun 1977 Menahem Begin forms Israeli government
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20 Jun 1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
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20 Jun 1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa,
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20 Jun 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.
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20 Jun 1980 California Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs and double to beat Red Sox 20-2
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20 Jun 1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision
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20 Jun 1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray
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20 Jun 1981 Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
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20 Jun 1981 Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime
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20 Jun 1981 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
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20 Jun 1982 82nd US Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach GL, California
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20 Jun 1982 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
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20 Jun 1982 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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20 Jun 1982 Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)
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20 Jun 1982 The Argentine base Corbeta Uruguay on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
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20 Jun 1983 83rd US Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
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20 Jun 1983 New York Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
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20 Jun 1986 Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
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20 Jun 1986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
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20 Jun 1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
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20 Jun 1988 Curtis Strange wins US Open golf tournament
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20 Jun 1988 New York City WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of New Jersey Devils
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20 Jun 1988 Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities
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20 Jun 1988 WABC officially becomes the New Jersey Devils new home radio
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20 Jun 1988 NYC WABC-AM becomes the flagship radio station of the NJ Devils
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20 Jun 1988 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
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20 Jun 1990 Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
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20 Jun 1990 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
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20 Jun 1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the US
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20 Jun 1991 The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
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20 Jun 1992 Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Baltimore Orioles)
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20 Jun 1993 47th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
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20 Jun 1993 93rd US Golf Open: Lee Janzen shoots a 272 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
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20 Jun 1993 Tammie Green wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
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20 Jun 1994 Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
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20 Jun 1994 Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network
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20 Jun 1994 OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman
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20 Jun 1995 Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun
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20 Jun 1996 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), launches into space
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20 Jun 1997 Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
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20 Jun 2001 Andrea Yates, in an attempt to save her young children from Satan, drowns all five of them in a bathtub in Houston, Texas.
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20 Jun 2003 The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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