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1567Jun 20Jews were expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique.
1597Jun 20Willem Barents, Dutch explorer who discovered Spitsbergen & Bereneil, died. In 1995 Rayner Unwin authored “A Winter Away from Home,” an account of Barents’ Arctic voyages.
1632Jun 20Britain granted 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area.
1674Jun 20Nicholas Rowe, poet laureate of England, was born.
1723Jun 20Adam Ferguson, Scottish man of letters, philosopher, historian, and patriot, was born. He wrote “Principals of Moral and Political Science.”
1763Jun 20Theobald Wolfe Tone (d.1798), Irish nationalist, was born.
1782Jun 20Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States and the eagle as its symbol.
1789Jun 20Oath on the Tennis Court in Versailles, France, bonded members of the Third Estate to resist eviction until they have a new constitution.
1791Jun 20King Louis XVI of France attempted to flee the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes, but was caught.
1819Jun 20Jacques Offenbach (d.1880), French composer (Tales of Hoffmann), was born in Cologne. His work included the comedy opera “Barbe-Bleue” (Blue Beard).
1825Jun 20Coronation of French king Charles X, the surviving brother of guillotined Louis XVI.
1837Jun 20Queen Victoria (18) ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV (b.1765). She ruled for 63 years to 1901.
1840Jun 20Samuel F.B. Morse, a popular artist, patented his telegraph.
1863Jun 20West Virginia became the 35th state.
1864Jun 20Battle of Petersburg, VA, in trenches.
1866Jun 20Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, Egyptologist (Tutankhamen), was born in England.
1867Jun 20Pres. Andrew Johnson announced the purchase of Alaska.
1876Jun 20Antonio L de Santa Ana, president of Mexico and victor at Alamo, died.
1894Jun 20George Delacorte, philanthropist, publisher (Dell Books), was born in NYC.
1898Jun 20During the Spanish-American War on the way to the Philippines to fight the Spanish, the U.S. Navy cruiser Charleston seized the island of Guam.
1899Jun 20Jean Moulin, French Resistance fighter against Nazi Germany, was born.
1901Jun 20Charlotte M. Manye of South Africa became the first native African to graduate from American University.
1907Jun 20Lillian Hellman (d.1984), American author and playwright (The Little Foxes, Toys in the Attic), was born. “Success and failure are not true opposites and they’re not even in the same class; they’re not even a couch and a chair.”
1909Jun 20The first honeymoon in a balloon.
1910Jun 20Chester Arthur Burnett (d.1976) was born in West Point, Mississippi. He later became known as the blues singer Howlin’ Wolf.
1915Jun 20There was a German offensive in Argonne.
1919Jun 20Treaty of Versailles: Germany ended the incorporation of Austria.
1920Jun 20Race riots in Chicago, Illinois left two dead and many wounded.
1923Jun 20France announced it would seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying her war debts.
1924Jun 20Chet Atkins, guitarist, was born.
1928Jun 20Jean-Marie Le-Pen, leader of the National Front party in France, was born.
1931Jun 20Olympia Dukakis, actress (Moonstruck, Cemetery Club), was born in Lowell, Mass.
1936Jun 20Jesse Owens of US set a 100 meter record at 10.2 sec.
1941Jun 20U.S. Army Air Forces was established, replacing the Army Air Corps.
1942Jun 20Brian Wilson (Beach Boys), was born.
1943Jun 20Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit; federal troops were sent in two days later to quell the violence that resulted in 34 deaths and 600 wounded.
1944Jun 20The US Congress chartered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
1946Jun 20Andre Watts, pianist, was born.
1947Jun 20President Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, but had his veto overridden by Congress. The act declared the closed shop illegal and permitted the union shop only following a majority employee vote.
1948Jun 20The variety series “Toast of the Town,” hosted by Ed Sullivan, debuted on CBS-TV. Guests included Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, concert pianist Eugene List, and Broadway songwriters Rodgers and Hammerstein. The program became “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1955.
1952Jun 20John Goodman (actor: Roseanne, The Flintstones, The Babe), was born.
1954Jun 20Ilan Ramon, Israeli pilot and astronaut, was born in Tel Aviv. He was among the 7 astronauts killed in the US Columbia space shuttle tragedy Feb 1, 2003.
1955Jun 20Michael Anthony, (bassist for Van Halen), was born.
1955Jun 20The AFL and CIO agreed to combine names for a merged group.
1958Jun 20FBI headquarters learned of Ronald Reagan’s desire to star in the film “The FBI Story.” The bureau rejected the idea because of Reagan’s association with Communist front organizations in the 1940s.
1963Jun 20The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communications link between the two superpowers and a treaty was signed limiting nuclear testing.
1964Jun 20General William Westmoreland succeeded General Paul Harkins as head of the U.S. forces in Vietnam.
1972Jun 20President Richard Nixon named General Creigton Abrams as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces.
1973Jun 20Juan Peron (1895-1974) returned to Argentina.
1975Jun 20The Steven Spielberg shark thriller “Jaws” was first released.
1977Jun 20The 1st oil of the Alaska pipeline began to flow south 799 miles from Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez. It reached Valdez on Jul 28.
1980Jun 20Lake Powell, straddling the Arizona-Utah border behind the Glen Canyon Dam, completed its fill, which began in 1963.
1983Jun 20The crew of the space shuttle Challenger, including America’s first woman in space, Sally K. Ride, launched the Indonesian-owned Palapa B communications satellite into orbit.
 1987Jun 20Tens of thousands of riot police in South Korea clashed with demonstrators.
1988Jun 20The US Supreme Court unanimously upheld a New York City law making it illegal for private clubs to generally exclude women and minorities.
1989Jun 20Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev greeted the speaker of Iran’s parliament, Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was visiting Moscow.
1990Jun 20South African black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrived in New York City for a ticker-tape parade in their honor as they began an eight-city US tour.
1991Jun 20Boris Yeltsin, the newly elected president of the Russian republic, was welcomed to the White House by President Bush.
1992Jun 20An enraged mob forced South African President F.W. de Klerk to cut short a visit to the black township of Boipatong, the scene of a massacre three days earlier.
1993Jun 20The Chicago Bulls won their third NBA title in a row as they defeated the Phoenix Suns in Game 6 of their championship series, 99-98.
1995Jun 20US Air Force Captain Jim Wang, a radar officer, was cleared of wrongdoing in a     friendly fire attack on two US helicopters over northern Iraq in 1994 that resulted in 26 deaths.
1996Jun 20The Clinton administration announced it would veto the re-election of U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
1997Jun 20The summit of industrialized nations opened in Denver, with Russia taking its place as the new eighth partner.
1998Jun 20On the eve of Father’s Day, President Clinton used his weekly radio address to announce the release of the first wave of almost $60 million in prostate cancer research grants.
1999Jun 20Golfer Payne Stewart won his second US Open title, by one stroke over Phil Mickelson.
2000Jun 20Vivendi agreed to acquire Seagram’s Corp. for $30 billion.
2001Jun 20In Belfast, Northern Ireland, police battled sectarian mobs in the worst rioting since 1998.
2002Jun 20The US Supreme Court ruled that the constitution bans the death penalty for mentally retarded convicted killers.
2003Jun 20President Bush named Scott McClellan his new press secretary, succeeding Ari Fleischer.
2004Jun 20Bermuda-based Bacardi Limited agreed to purchase Grey Goose vodka, distilled and bottled in France, from Sidney Frank Importing Co. for roughly $2 billion.
2005Jun 20During a joint news conference with European leaders, President Bush said he was determined to complete the mission of establishing democracy in Iraq because the world would be a better place for it.
2006Jun 20One of the largest US military exercises in decades got underway off Guam island in the western Pacific.
2007Jun 20Starbucks signed a deal to credit Ethiopia’s unique bean varieties on its coffee labels, ending a long-brewing trademark dispute.
2008Jun 20The US Federal Appeals Court in Washington, DC, ruled that Huzaifa Parhat, an ethnic Chinese Uighur captured in the early stage of the US war in Afghanistan, was inappropriately designated an enemy combatant.
2009Jun 20The SF Chronicle displayed a picture of a 9x7x2 foot, miniature, toothpick construct of San Francisco, created over the last 34 years by Scott Weaver of Rohnert Park, Ca. Weaver spent some 3,000 hours creating the work.
2010Jun 20In Colombia polls showed a huge lead for former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos (58). Santos won 69% of the vote, the largest margin in modern Colombian history.
2011Jun 20The US Supreme Court denied a sex discrimination suit on behalf of over 1 million Wal-Mart employees saying they failed to pinpoint any company policy that denied them equal pay of promotions.
2012Jun 20Rodney Alcala (68), a convicted California serial killer, was flown to NY to face charges in Manhattan of killing two women in the 1970s.
2013Jun 20In eastern Washington state a routine inspection at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation detected higher radioactivity under a tank holding radioactive waste.
2014Jun 20A US State Department blacklist included Thailand and Malaysia for their failure to meet minimum standards in fighting human trafficking.
   
Source: Timelines of History  

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