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History on the 20th of June

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20 Jun 1529 RELIGIOUS Clement VII and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V signed the Peace of Barcelona, which ended attacks on Rome by the Lutheran armies.
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20 Jun 1599 RELIGIOUS The Synod of Diamper reunited a native church in India with Rome. Discovered in 1498 by Portuguese explorers, this isolated pocket of worshipers traced their Christian origins back to the missionary efforts of the Apostle Thomas.
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20 Jun 1776 RELIGIOUS Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'A Christian is not of hasty growth...but rather like the oak, the progress of which is hardly perceptible, but in time becomes a deep-rooted tree.'
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20 Jun 1779 RELIGIOUS Birth of Dorothy Ann Thrupp, English devotional writer and author of the hymn, 'Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.'
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20 Jun 1885 RELIGIOUS A band of Moravian missionaries landed on the shores of Alaska and founded the Bethel Mission. During the first year of their mission work among the, eskimoes, winter temperatures outside their makeshift housing plummeted to 50 degrees below zero!
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20 Jun 1911 WW2 Haiqi arrived at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom. 
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20 Jun 1914 WW2 Hubert Lanz joined the German Army. 
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20 Jun 1920 WW2 George Patton reverted to the permanent rank of captain. 
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20 Jun 1923 WW2 Milwaukee was commissioned into service. 
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20 Jun 1924 WW2 Audie Murphy was born. 
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20 Jun 1933 WW2 Nazi Party member Hermann Rauschning became the President of the Senate of Danzig. 
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20 Jun 1934 WW2 German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen complained to President Paul von Hindenburg of the censoring of his 17 Jun 1934 speech by the Nazi Party, threatening to resign if nothing would be done to improve the situation. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Although the French had already reached out to Rome for peace, the Italians were determined to capture French territory in order to bargain for colonial holdings in North Africa; 32 divisions organized in 2 armies stood ready on the Italian-French border. Meanwhile, German troops captured Brest and Lyons. 9,000 Polish soldiers fighting in France were evacuated from Bayonne aboard the Polish ships Batory and Sobieksi. Also on this date, British RAF bombers attacked the German-controlled airfield at Rouen, France. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 The British Parliament met in a secret joint session to discuss the defense against a potential German invasion. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Five weeks after the German conquest of the Netherlands, Dutch civilians began to be conscripted as forced laborers. During the war, 431,500 Dutch civilians would meet this fate. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 German battlecruiser Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper departed Trondheim, Norway for operations near Iceland as a diversion for battleship Scharnhorst's cruise to Kiel, Germany for repairs. British submarine HMS Clyde detected Gneisenau and hit her with a torpedo 80 miles northwest of Trondheim and forced her to return for repairs. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 German battlecruiser Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper departed Trondheim, Norway for operations near Iceland as a diversion for battleship Scharnhorst's cruise to Kiel, Germany for repairs. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarines U-30, U-38, U-48, and U-122 each sank a merchant vessel in the waters surrounding the United Kingdom and in the Bay of Biscay. In total, 61 were killed and 68 survived. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Bureau of Ships was established in the United States with Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson as its chief; this new bureau replaced the former Bureau of Construction and Repair and the former Bureau of Engineering. Also, Office of Undersecretary of the Navy was created in the United States for duration of national emergency. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 USS Quincy reached Montevideo, Uruguay, as part of the American effort to counteract German propaganda in Latin America. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Destroyer USS O'Brien reached Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Vichy France opened northern Indochina to Japanese military mission and supporting troops. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Light cruiser Voroshilov was commissioned into service. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Robert von Greim was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht radio report. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Light cruiser USS Phoenix departed Lahaina, Maui, US Territory of Hawaii for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 After sundown and into the next date, Lorraine bombarded Italian positions at Bardia, Libya. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Destroyer USS Herbert departed Lisbon, Portugal for French Morocco. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria sent Joseph Stalin a list containing names of 232 Soviet prisoners of war returned by Finland and recommended everyone on the list to be executed; in fact, 158 of them had already been killed. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 American cruiser USS Vincennes and destroyers USS Truxton and USS Simpson arrived at New York, New York, United States with 200 tons of gold from the French reserves. 
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20 Jun 1940 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt nominated two well-known Republicans with pronounced pro-Ally sympathies, Henry Stimson and Frank Knox, to be Secretaries for War and the Navy respectively. 
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20 Jun 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt addressed the US Congress in regards to the sinking of American freighter Robin Moor by German submarine on 21 May 1941. 
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20 Jun 1941 WW2 Alfred Rosenberg delivered a speech in which he stated that the job of feeding Germans was the top German priority, while feeding the conquered peoples in Eastern Europe was not of Germany's concern. 
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20 Jun 1941 WW2 The German troops amassing on the border with the Soviet Union were told that they were undergoing a large scale exercise. 
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20 Jun 1941 WW2 2 Indian and 2 Free French companies attempted to relieve the surrounded Indian 5th Infantry Brigade at Mezze, French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon, but the attack on Vichy French would result in failure. After sundown, Free French, British, and Australian troops captured Qadim. 
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20 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-123 sank Portuguese ship Ganda off Casablanca, French Morocco at 2030 hours; 5 were killed, 61 survived. 
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20 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-203 sighted USS Texas in the North Atlantic 750 miles west of Ireland and took no action. 
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20 Jun 1941 WW2 Light cruiser Voroshilov completed a week-long exercise. 
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20 Jun 1941 WW2 The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was renamed the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) under the command of Major General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold. The USAAF was to be autonomous from the US Army. 
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20 Jun 1941 WW2 US Navy placed a contract with the Douglas Aircraft Company for two prototype aircraft of a new carrier torpedo/dive bomber design. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 Captain Teijiro Yamazumi was named the commanding officer of battleship Mutsu. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was assigned to the 1st Air Fleet; she disembarked all her aircraft. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-67 damaged Norwegian tanker Nortind with a torpedo 90 miles south of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at 1125 hours, killing 1. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese troops aboard Seki Maru No. 3 found and captured coast watcher Cornelius Page on Simberi, New Ireland. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-26 bombarded the Estevan Point lighthouse and the radio direction finding facility on the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 About 1,000 Austrian Jews arrived at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia; they were the first Austrian Jews to arrive at this camp. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 185 British bombers attacked Emden, Germany, causing little damage; 7 bombers were lost. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 Axis troops launched what would be the final attack on Tobruk, Libya, preceded by a heavy artillery and air bombardment at 0530 hours. At 0700 hours, 100 German and Italian tanks rushed through a gap in Tobruk's southeastern lines. The port facilities were captured by 1900 hours, and British troops destroyed stocks of fuel and supplies to prevent capture. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Taroa, Marshall Islands and arrived at Wotje, Marshall Islands. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 Polish prisoners of Auschwitz Concentration Camp Kazimierz Piechowski, Stanislaw Gustaw Jaster, Józef Lempart, and Eugeniusz Bendera broke into a SS store room and stole uniforms and weapons and then made their escape from the concentration camp in disguise. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 German 24th Infantry Division attacked Fort Lenin and Fort North (held against German attacks for the whole day) near Sevastopol, Russia starting at 0900 hours; while Fort Lenin was captured with minimal resistance, Soviet troops at Fort North held their ground, repulsing German attacks all day. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 Winston Churchill arrived at Franklin Roosevelt's home at Hyde Park, New York, United States to discuss US-UK cooperation. The two leaders agreed to give the crossing of the English Channel a priority, and that the two nations would assist each other in atomic weapons research. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 Acting on information given by defected saboteur George Dasch, United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agents captured three German saboteurs in New York, New York, United States. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 The US Navy Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington DC, United States proposed to take over Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team based in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, which currently reported to the US Navy Office of Naval Communications. 
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20 Jun 1942 WW2 The American newspaper New York Times published the report from the World Jewish Congress that the Germans had, to date, killed 1,000,000 Jews in "vast slaughterhouse for the Jews" located in Eastern Europe. 
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20 Jun 1943 WW2 The RAF initiated shuttle bombing, where planes departed home fields to bomb Germany, re-armed in Africa, then bomb Italian targets en route back to Britain. The first of these raids targeted Friedrichshafen, Germany. 
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20 Jun 1943 WW2 5,550 Dutch Jews in Amsterdam were rounded up for deportation to the east. 
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20 Jun 1943 WW2 Submarine Rock was launched, sponsored by Mrs. B. O. Wells. 
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20 Jun 1943 WW2 Lord Gort received the field marshal's baton from King George VI at Malta. 
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20 Jun 1943 WW2 Captain Arthur Post of US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron was shot down near Wide Bay, New Britain. He survived the ordeal and was taken in by natives, who later brought him to coast watchers. 
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20 Jun 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Uzuki at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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20 Jun 1943 WW2 A fist fight between two men, one white and one African-American, at Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan, United States escalated the already-strained racial tension into a riot. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 The Americans launched their first attack on Cherbourg, France. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 Soviets captured Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 Bernard Montgomery was awarded the title of Grand Commander of the Order of King George I of Greece. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Astoria departed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for her shakedown cruise. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho was slightly damaged by US TBF aircraft at 1810 hours during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze rescued survivors of transport Seiyo Maru during the Battle of the Philippine Sea then scuttled the transport with a torpedo. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 The US Tenth Army, consisting of the XXIV Corps (US Army) and the III Amphibious Corps (US Marine Corps) was activated under the command of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 Viipuri, Finland was captured by the Soviets. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 Japanese troops captured Forest Hill near Imphal, India but failed to capture Plum Hill, another nearby objective. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 British troops captured Perugia, Italy. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki completed her refitting at Sasebo, Japan. She received a Type 13 radar on her main mast, exchanged twin 13-mm machine gun mounts for single 25-mm machine gun mounts. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Bluefish pursued a Japanese transport in the Makassar Strait, expending 5 torpedoes., 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 Jakob Edelstein, the former senior Jewish elder ("Judenaeltester") of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, and his family were shot in Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. 
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20 Jun 1944 WW2 The underground Directorate of Civil Defense in Warsaw, Poland sent a radio message to London, England, United Kingdom: "Since May 15, mass murders have been carried out in Auschwitz. Jews are taken first, then Soviet prisoners of war, and the so-called sick. Mass transports of Hungarian Jews arrive. Thirteen trains per day, 40-50 cars each. Victims convinced they will be exchanged for POWs or resettled in the East. Corpses are burned in crematoria and out in the open. Over 100,000 people from Hungary have been gassed to date." 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 Captain Shigenori Kami was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 10th Air Fleet. 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese transport in the Sea of Japan; all 3 torpedoes fired missed. 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her sixth and final war patrol. 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 US PB4Y-2 aircraft from Okinawa, Japan began laying mines in waters off the southern tip of Korea. 
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20 Jun 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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20 Jun 1946 WW2 St. Louis was decommissioned from service. 
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20 Jun 1949 WW2 Filipp Golikov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the fourth time. 
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20 Jun 1949 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Red Banner for the second time. 
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20 Jun 1949 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the third time. 
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