On this day in History - Jun. 20

• 0451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.
• 0451 - Theodorid dies. King of the Visigoths.
  
• 0840 - Louis the Pious dies (b. 0778). King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1005 - Ali az-Zahir was born (d. 1036). Caliph.
• 1214 - The University of Oxford receives its charter.
• 1389 - John, Duke of Bedford was born (d. 1435). Regent of England.
• 1483- Execução do Duque de Bragança após ser julgado em Évora (Portugal)
• 1561 - Sigismund was born (d. 1632). King of Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• 1566 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa was born (d. 1632)
• 1583 - Jacob De la Gardie was born (d. 1652). Swedish soldier and statesman.
• 1597 - Willem Barentsz dies. Navigator.
• 1615 - Salvator Rosa was born (d. 15 Mar 1673). Italian painter, draftsman, etcher, poet, and actor, specialized in Landscapes. [Self-portrait (1641), River Landscape with Apollo and the Cumean Sibyl (1655)],
• 1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore was attacked by Algerian pirates.
• 1634 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy was born (d. 1675).
• 1642 (O.S.) - George Hickes was born (d. 1715). English minister and scholar.
• 1647 - John George III, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1691).
• 1652 - Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire, served until 21 March 1653.
• 1667 - Início do pontificado do Papa Clemente IX.
• 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwater.
• 1717 - Jacques Saly was born (d. 1776). French sculptor.
• 1723 (O.S.) - Adam Ferguson was born (d. 1816). Scottish philosopher and historian.
• 1723 (O.S.) - Theophilus Lindsey was born (d. 1808). English theologian.
• 1733 - Betty Washington was born. Sister of George Washington.
• 1737 - Tokugawa Ieharu was born (d. 1786). Japanese military.
• 1756 - A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
• 1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus was born (d. 1792). Swedish composer.
• 1763 - Wolfe Tone was born. Irish patriot.
• 1770 - Moses Waddel was born (d. 1840). American educator/minister and bestselling author.
• 1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk was born (d. 1820). Scottish philanthropist, entrepreneur.
• 1782 - The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
• 1786 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was born (d. 1859). French poet.
• 1787 - Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
• 1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel dies. German composer.
• 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath
• 1791 - King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes.
• 1797 - Sophie (Frémiet) Rude was born (d. 1867). French artist.
• 1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch was born (d. 1888). German rabbi.
• 1819 - The US vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail.
• 1819 - Jacques Offenbach was born (d. 1880). German-born French composer.
• 1820 - Manuel Belgrano dies. Argentine lawyer and politician.
• 1833 - Léon-Joseph-Florentin Bonnat, was born (d. 8 Sep 1922). French painter, collector, and teacher.
• 1836 - Emmanuel Joseph Sièyes dies. Revolutionary.
• 1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom dies
• 1837 - Princess Victoria became Queen Victoria of England on this day, following the death of her uncle, King William IV.
• 1840 - Samuel Morse received a patent for telegraphy signals (U.S. No. 1,647).
• 1842 - Anselmo de Andrade was born. Portuguese politician and economist.
• 1858 - Charles W. Chesnutt was born (d. 1932). American writer.
• 1860 - Jack Worrall was born (d. 1937). Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach.
• 1860 - Juan Llimona was born (d. 1926). Spanish painter.
• 1861 - Frederick Gowland Hopkins was born. British biochemist, who received (with Christiaan Eijkman) the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovery of essential nutrient factors, now known as vitamins, needed in animal diets to maintain health
• 1862 - Barbu Catargiu is assassinated.
• 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
• 1863 - The National Bank of Philadelphia, PA received a charter from the U.S. Congress. It was the first bank to receive one.
• 1866 - Bernhard Riemann dies (b. 1826). Mathematician.
• 1872 - George Carpenter was born (d. 1948). The 5th General of The Salvation Army.
• 1874 - António Joaquim da Costa Carvalho dies (b. 19 May 1800). Portuguese noble (Barão de S. Lourenço).
• 1875 - Sebastian Wilhelm Valentin Bauer dies (b. 23 Dec 1822). German pioneer inventor and builder of submarines.
• 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton Ontario.
• 1885 - Andrzej Gawroński was born (d. 1927). Polish scholar.
• 1887 - Kurt Schwitters was born († 8 Jan 1948). German Dadaist painter, sculptor, designer, and writer, founder of the Merz Dadaist movement. Rainbow Santa Claus
• 1889 - John S. Paraskevopoulos was born (d. 1951). Greek-South African astronomer.
• 1891 - John A. Costello was born (d. 1976). Second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1893 - Lizzie Borden is found innocent of murdering her stepmother and father.
• 1894 - Lloyd Augustus Hall was born (d. 1971). American chemist.
• 1896 - Wilfrid Pelletier was born (d. 1982). French Canadian conductor.
• 1897 - Elisabeth Hauptmann was born (d. 1973). German writer.
• 1899 - Jean Moulin was born (d. 1943). Leader of the French Resistance in WW II.
• 1900 - China : Contando com o apoio do governo imperial chinês e liderado pela imperatriz Tzu'u Hzi, mais de 100,000 Boxers (jovens chineses) sitiam os estrangeiros de Pequim e queimam as igrejas cristãs da cidade. O embaixador alemão é uma das vítimas.
• 1901 - Edward A. M. Cullen was born. American pianist
• 1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies.
• 1905 - Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans (d. 1984). American playwright, dramatist.
• 1907 - Jimmy Driftwood was born (d. 1998). American songwriter and musician
• 1908 - Federico Chueca dies. Musician.
• 1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov dies. Russian composer.
• 1909 - Errol Flynn was born (d. 14 Oct 1959). Australian actor (Captain Blood, In the Wake of the Bounty, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Too Much Too Soon)
• 1910 - Fanny Brice (Bannie Borach), debuted in the New York production of the Ziegfeld Follies (b. 29 Oct 1891, d. 29 May 1951).
• 1911 - Gail Patrick was born (d. 1980). American actress.
• 1912 - Anthony Buckeridge was born (d. 2004) . English author.
• 1915 - Dick Reynolds was born (d. 2002). Australian rules footballer and coach.
• 1915 - Terence Young was born (d. 1994). British film director.
• 1916 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand was born (d. 1973). Premier of Quebec.
• 1917 - Igor Śmiałowski was born (d. 2006). Polish actor.
• 1917 - António Feijó dies (b. 1859). Portuguese poet / Morre em Estocolmo o poeta português António (Joaquim de Castro) Feijó (n. 1859 em Ponte de Lima). Ver link sobre lançamento do livro «Poesias Dispersas e Inéditas»
• 1918 - George Lynch was born (d. 1997). American auto racer.
• 1918 - Zoltán Sztáray was born. Hungarian writer
• 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1920 - Hans Gerschwiler was born. Swiss figure skater
• 1921 - Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1923 - Pancho Villa dies (b. 5 Jun 1878). Mexican revolucionary leader.
• 1924 - Chet Atkins was born (d. 2001). American guitar player.
• 1924 - Audie Murphy was born (d. 1971). American actor.
• 1924 - Fritz Koenig was born. German sculptor.
• 1928 - Eric Dolphy was born (d. 1964). American jazz musician.
• 1928 - Jean-Marie Le Pen was born. French politician.
• 1930 - Paul Pender was born. American boxer.
• 1930 - Magdalena Abakanowicz was born. Polish artist.
• 1931 - Olympia Dukakis was born. Greek-American Academy Award-winning actress: Moonstruck [1987]; Steel Magnolias, Working Girl, The Cemetery Club, Death Wish, Look Who’s Talking; cousin of U.S. presidential nominee, Michael Dukakis.
• 1931 - Martin Landau was born. Actor. American Academy Award-winning supporting actor: Ed Wood [1994]; Mission Impossible, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams, By Dawn’s Early Light, Mistress, North by Northwest, Pork Chop Hil.
• 1933 - Danny Aiello was born. American actor.
• 1934 - Rossana Podestà was born. Italian actress.
• 1935 - Len Dawson was born. Former football player.
• 1935 - Neal Knox was born (d. 2005). Gun rights activist.
• 1936 - Billy Guy was born (d. 2002). American singer (The Coasters).
• 1937 - Donald Sullivan was born. Priest.
• 1937 - Jerry Keller was born. Pop singer and songwriter.
• 1938 - Mickie Most was born (d. 2003). British record producer.
• 1939 - Ramakant Desai was born (d. 1998). Indian cricketer.
• 1939 - Benny Goodman's Song School ends its radio series.
• 1940 - Eugen Drewermann was born. German theologian.
• 1940 - John Mahoney was born. English actor.
• 1941 - Ulf Merbold was born. German physicist and astronaut.
• 1941 - Ilse Ritter was born. English actress.
• 1942 - Brian Wilson was born. American musician; founder of The Beach Boys.
• 1944 - Cheryl Holdridge was born. American actress.
• 1945 - Shekhar Mehta was born. Racer, winner of the Safari Rally.
• 1945 - Anne Murray was born. Grammy Award-winning singer: Love Song [1974], You Needed Me [1978], Could I Have This Dance [1980], A Little Good News [1983]; Danny’s Song, Snowbird, You Won’t See Me, He Thinks I Still Care, Shadows In the Moonlight; TV: Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
• 1945 - Bruno Frank dies. Author.
• 1946 - Bob Vila was born. Television presenter.
• 1946 - Andre Watts was born. American pianist.
• 1946 - Xanana Gusmão was born. East Timor revolutionary leader. Politician. The charismatic former rebel won East Timor's first presidential election, held in April 2002
• 1947 - Dolores "LaLa" Brooks was born. American singer, member of the Crystals.
• 1947 - Bugsy Siegel dies assassinated. Gangster.
• 1947 - Candy Clark was born. American actress.
• 1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
• 1948 - Ludwig Scotty was born. President of Nauru.
• 1949 - Lionel Richie was born. Musician: tenor sax, songwriter, singer: group: Commodores: ASCAP Nashville Country Songwriter Award: Three Times a Lady [1978]; solo: Truly, All Night Long [All Night], Hello, Say You Say Me
• 1951 - Tress MacNeille was born. Voice actress (The Simpsons, Animaniacs, Rugrats)
• 1951 - Paul Muldoon was born. Northern Irish poet
• 1952 - John Goodman was born. Actor Roseanne, The Flintstones, The Babe, King Ralph, Born Yesterday, Matinee, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Blues Brothers 2000, What Planet Are You From?, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• 1952 - Larry Riley was born (d. 1992). American actor.
• 1953 - Cyndi Lauper was born. Singer.
• 1954 - Michael Anthony was born. American musician, Van Halen.
• 1954 - Ilan Ramon was born (d. 2003). Israeli combat pilot and astronaut.
• 1956 - Ace Andres was born. American musician.
• 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Ashbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people.
• 1957 - Se inaugura en Rosario (provincia de Santa Fe) el notable Monumento a la Bandera.
• 1958 - Chuck Wagner was born. American actor.
• 1958 - Kurt Alder dies (b. 10 Jul 1902). German chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize laureate (with Otto Diels) for their development of the Diels-Alder reaction (1928), or diene synthesis, a widely used method of synthesizing cyclic organic compounds.
• 1959 - A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
• 1959 - A train-bus collision near Lauffen, Germany kills 43 people.
• 1960 - 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack and Jane Wyatt.
• 1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.
• 1960 - John Taylor was born. English musician (Duran Duran).
• 1963 - "Hotline" (the so-called "red telephone") established between Soviet Union and United States.
• 1963 - Don West was born. American professional wrestling announcer.
• 1963 - Pulido Valente dies. Portuguese professor and physicist.
• 1964 - Se crea la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol. Como se mantiene la Asociación Colombiana de Fútbol, existen en este país dos entidades paralelas en la organización del fútbol.
• 1964 - Michael Landon Jr. was born. Actor ( Bonanza).
• 1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels of wheat to Soviet Union.
• 1967 - Nicole Kidman was born. American-born Australian actress.
• 1967 - Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted.
• 1968 - Robert Rodriguez was born. Mexican-American Film Director.
• 1969 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix earned the biggest paycheck ever paid (to that time) for a single concert appearance. Hendrix was paid $125,000 to appear for a single set at the Newport Jazz Festival.
• 1969 - Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France and Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister.
• 1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1969 - Paulo Bento was born. Portuguese footballer and current trainer of Sporting.
• 1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid was born. Prince of Morocco.
• 1971 - Jeordie White was born. Bassist for Marilyn Manson from 1990 – 2002.
• 1971 - Josh Lucas was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Paul Bako was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fired upon left-wing peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 injured.
• 1973 - Chino Moreno was born. American musician (Deftones).
• 1976 - Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ.
• 1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
• 1978 - An earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale hits Thessaloniki, Greece.
• 1978 - Frank Lampard was born. Football player for Chelsea, English Premiership Champions.
• 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 sparked international outcry of the regime.
• 1979 - Cláudia Vieira was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic boxing trilogy with Sugar Ray Leonard by defeating him in Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship.
• 1980 - Augusta AVA became the first federally recognized American Viticultural Area.
• 1980 - Damián A. Fernández Beanato was born. Newsweek and ANSA journalist.
• 1980 - Franco Semioli was born. Italian footballer.
• 1981 - Iran is taken over by what is now known as the Islamic Republic of Iran after two and a half years of intimidation.
• 1981 - Portugal: Vila Praia da Vitória, nos Açores, é elevada a cidade.
• 1983 - LZW patent filed in USA.
• 1983 - Darren Sproles was born. NFL player.
• 1987 - Whitney Houston’s album, Whitney, debuted on Billboard magazine’s album chart at number one. Houston became the first female to have an LP debut at the top.
• 1988 - Asteroid Eureka discovered.
• 1990 - Se crea en Buenos Aires la Universidad Maimónides.
• 1990 - 50,000 die in a 7.6 earthquake in Iran.
• 1991 - Amália Rodrigues is condecorated by the French President François Miterrand with the "Legion d'Honneur" (The Legion of Honor).
• 1991 - The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
• 1993 - The Chicago Bulls won their third consecutive title with a 99-98 victory over the Phoenix Suns in game 6 of the NBA finals.
• 1993 - Vince Foster dies (suicide). Deputy White House Counsel.
• 1994 - O. J. Simpson é declarado inocente em Los Angeles pelo assassinato de sua ex-mulher Nicole, e do amigo dela Ronald Goldman.
• 1995 - Emil Cioran dies. Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist.
• 1995 - Peter Townsend dies. American musician.
• 1998 - Conrad Schumann dies. East German borderguard, most famous escapee from East Germany.
• 1999 - Clifton Fadiman dies. Author.
• 2000 - Vittorio Gassman dies. Italian Actor.
• 2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan.
• 2001 - Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and admits to the crime. She would be sentenced to life in prison.
• 2002 - Erwin Chargaff dies. Austrian biochemist.
• 2002 - Tinus Osendarp dies. Dutch sprinter.
• 2003 - LZW patent expires in USA.
• 2003 - Bounce premieres at the Goodman Theatre.
• 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.
• 2003 - Bob Stump dies. U.S. Congressman from Arizona.
• 2004 - Descoberta de novas pinturas rupestres na aldeia de Colmeal - Vale do Côa Portugal).
• 2004 - Portugal bate a Espanha por 1-0 com um golo de Nuno Gomes e qualifica-se para os quartos de final do Campeonato da Europa (Nota do webmaster : Assisti ao vivo a este jogo que fica como sendo o acontecimento desportivo que maior alegria me transmitiu até à data. Nem o triunfo do Benfica no Campeonato Nacional excedeu aquela euforia).
• 2005 - Neopets is sold to Viacom for an estimated 160 million dollars.
• 2005 - Jack Kilby dies (b. 1923). American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate.
• 2005 - Larry Collins dies (b. 1929). American writer.
• 2006 - Hastings, Nebraska experiences a rare heat burst, raising temperatures from the mid-seventies to 94° F (34.4° C) in the middle of the night.
• 2006 - Billy Johnson dies (b. 1918). American baseball player.
• 2007 - Trevor Henry dies (b. 1902). New Zealand Justice.
• United Nations High Comissioner for refugees - World Refugee Day / Dia Mundial dos Refugiados.
• Flag Day in Argentina (1938). Día de la Bandera El Congreso de la Nación, por ley nacional Nº 12.361, estableció el día 20 de junio (por ser el aniversario del fallecimiento del Gral. Manuel Belgrano, el 20 de junio de 1820) como "Día de la Bandera".
• West Virginia – West Virginia Day.
• Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg (d. 981)