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June 20 in history

232 sourced entries recorded on June 20, from 451 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 451Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (Châlons): Attila avoids a pitched battle near Orléans, and withdraws to the Catalaunian Plains (Champagne-Ardenne). The Roman coalition defeats the Huns, but Theodoric I is killed in the encounter. This is one of the last military victories of the Western Roman Empire, before the victories of Emperor Majorian against the Alemanni, Visigoths, Suebi and Burgundians, between 457 and 461.source
  • 1180Battle of Uji: Prince Mochihito and Minamoto no Yorimasa take refuge in the Byōdō-in Temple. They appeal to warrior monks for assistance, but are ultimately defeated by Taira forces. Yorimasa commits suicide, and Mochihito is killed while fleeing.source
  • 1214A papal ordinance defines the rights of the scholars at the University of Oxford in England.source
  • 1224The siege of Bedford Castle by King Henry III of England begins.source
  • 1236Treaty of Kremmen: Duke Wartislaw III recognizes the seignory of Henry Borwin III, lord of Rostock, after his successful expedition against Wartislaw, in which he has conquered Circipania, including the cities of Gnoien and Kalen. Meanwhile, Swietopelk II, Duke of Pomerania ("the Great") conquers Schlawe and Stolp, the eastern part of Pomerania. To ease the tensions with Brandenburg, Wartislaw signs the Kremmen agreement.source
  • 1295Treaty of Anagni: Pope Boniface VIII arranges a peace treaty between King Philip IV of France ("the Fair"), Charles II of Naples ("the Lame"), and James II of Majorca. James returns Sicily to the Papal States, seeking to bring peace between the Capetian House of Anjou and the Kingdom of Sicily; the effort is in vain. Boniface is determined to put an end to the War of the Sicilian Vespers, because he wants to declare a new Crusade for the reconquest of the Holy Land.source
  • 1305Öljaitü, the new Mongol Ikhanate, marries Qutlughshah Khatun, daughter of the Kerait Emir Irinjin.source
  • 1319Within the Mongol Empire, Özbeg Khan of the Golden Horde (the Mongol-controlled area of what is now Uzbekistan and Russia) fights a battle against the Ilkhanate (the Mongol-controlled Middle East) in an attempt to expand the Golden Horde's territory, with a confrontation in Ilkhanate territory at Mianeh (now in Iran). The troops of Özbeg Khan are supplemented with rebels led by an Ilkhanate prince, Yasa'ur. The Ilkhan Sultan, Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan and his general, Amir Chupan, lead the defenders to victory and take many of the rebel officers prisoner. Afterward, 36 emirs and seven viceroys are executed for treason, including Qurumushi of Georgia and Irinjin of Anatolia.source
  • 1346The English win a small victory at La Roche-Derrien in Brittany.source
  • 1367The author Geoffrey Chaucer is appointed by King Edward III of England as a valet de chambre as a means of receiving a regular income while pursuing his writing. By 1372, Chaucer delivers his first epic poem, The Book of the Duchess, in honor of Duchess Blanche of Lancaster.source
  • 1399An-Nasir Faraj becomes the Sultan of Egypt upon the death of his father, the Sultan Sayf ad-Din Barquq.source
  • 1416Raoul de Gaucourt and Regnault de Chartres, held prisoners of war in England since being captured during the siege of Harfleur, are paroled in order to serve as England's emissaries to begin discussions of a truce with King Charles VI of France.source
  • 1419The Ōei Invasion of Tsushima Island, Japan on orders of King Sejong of Korea, begins as General Yi Jong-mu leads 227 ships and 17,285 soldiers to come ashore at Asō Bay.source
  • 1434Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.source
  • 1448The Regency period of Sweden ends with the election by Swedish nobles of Karl Knutsson Bonde as King Karl VIII.source
  • 1450The First Margrave War between Nuremberg and Brandenburg ends with the signing of a peace treaty at Bamberg. Under the treaty, Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, is forced to return all lands that he had captured from Nuremberg.source
  • 1459The Despotate of Serbia comes to an end as the despot Stefan Tomašević surrenders the last Serbian city, Smederevo, without a fight.source
  • 1480The Senate of the Republic of Venice votes to approve the transfer of ownership of the island of Santorini (now the Greek island of Thera) to Domenico Pisani. The island was the dowry given to Pisani for the marriage of Fiorenza Crispo, by Firenzo's father, Giacomo III Crispo, Duke of the Archipelago, a set of 18 of the 20 inhabited Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea.source
  • 1498Niccolò Machiavelli, who will later be the author of the influential political theory guide The Prince, is elected by the Great Council of Florence as the Secretary of the Second Chancellery of the Republic of Florence.source
  • 1499Queen Isabella of Spain orders Christopher Columbus to liberate and repatriate Indians from the New World, declaring that nobody had authorized him to kidnap any of her subjects.source
  • 1513Ottaviano Fregoso becomes the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa, replacing Giano II di Campofregoso.source
  • 1545Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez arrives at a large island in the South Pacific Ocean. Stopping at the Mamberamo River, Ortiz claims the island for Spain and christens it "Nueva Guinea" after concluding that the natives resemble the people on the coast of the Guinea coast of West Africa.source
  • 1576Sir William Drury is appointed President of Munster.source
  • 1578The Frobisher expedition reaches Greenland.source
  • 1587Gabriel VIII becomes the new Pontiff of the Coptic Christian Church in Egypt, being enthroned as Pope Gabriel VIII and filling a vacancy that had existed for nine months since the death of Pope John XIV of Alexandria. Gabriel will reign until his death on May 14, 1603.source
  • 1599The Synod of Diamper is convened.source
  • 1605Pretender Dmitriy and his supporters, including troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, march to Moscow.source
  • 1622Thirty Years' War: Imperial forces under Tilly attempt to prevent Christian the Younger of Brunswick from moving his army across the Main River, to link up with Mansfeld. At the Battle of Höchst, Tilly manages to inflict considerable casualties on the Protestant forces, as well as seizing Brunswick's baggage train. Nonetheless, the bulk of Brunswick's forces manage to unite with Mansfeld.source
  • 1623order issued requiring civic officials to take the Oath of Supremacy and enforcing excommunication against those who have relapsed.source
  • 1627Turkish Abductions: Barbary corsairs from Salé raid the fishing village of Grindavík in Iceland and take captives into slavery, the first of several raids.source
  • 1627Hinchingbrooke House in the east of England is sold by Sir Oliver Cromwell, to Sidney Montagu.source
  • 1631Sack of Baltimore: the town of Baltimore, County Cork, is sacked by Algerian pirates.source
  • 1631Algerian pirates sack Baltimore, County Cork, in Ireland.source
  • 1632Charles I of England issues a charter for the colony of Maryland (named in honor of Henrietta Maria), under the control of Lord Baltimore.source
  • 1632A royal charter was issued for the foundation of the Maryland colony in North America. Lord Baltimore appointed as the first governor.source
  • 1632Two ships, Saint Jean (250 tons) and L'Esperance-en-Dieu, set sail from La Rochelle in France, bound for Acadia in North America.source
  • 1636Roger Williams and other Puritan settlers become founders of the colony of Providence Plantations, which later joins neighbouring territory to become the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The area today is the U.S. state of Rhode Island.source
  • 1638Eighty Years' War: Battle of Kallo – Spanish troops under Ferdinand of Austria defeat a much larger Dutch force, near Antwerp.source
  • 1643Spanish envoy to The Hague presents a proposal for a ceasefire, which the States General rejectsource
  • 1646Third Siege of Oxford concludes with signing of the surrender of the Royalist garrison at Oxford to General Thomas Fairfax's Parliamentary New Model Army; on the 24th of June the main force marches out, ending the First English Civil War.source
  • 1648Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnyov departs from Srednekolymsk to begin the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait, between Asia and North America, and arrives in September.source
  • 1653The Swiss peasant war of 1653 ends after Swiss Army troops under the command of Sebastian Peregrin Zwyer suppress the last rebels in Switzerland's Entlebuch Valley.source
  • 1667June 19–24 – The raid on the Medway in England is carried out when a fleet from the Dutch Republic under Admiral Michiel de Ruyter takes Sheerness fort, sails up the River Medway, raids Chatham Dockyard, and tows away the royal flagship The Royal Charles.source
  • 1667Giulio Rospigliosi is elected by the College of Cardinals to succeed the late Pope Alexander VII, after receiving 61 of the 64 votes of the cardinals present. He takes the regnal name Pope Clement IX, becoming the 238th head of the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1685Monmouth Rebellion: James, Duke of Monmouth declares himself at Taunton to be King, and heir to his father's Kingdoms as James II of England and Ireland, and James VII of Scotland.source
  • 1685Monmouth Rebellion: James, Duke of Monmouth, declares himself at Taunton to be King and heir to his father's Kingdoms as James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland.source
  • 1686French Canadian soldiers on the Hudson Bay expedition capture the first of the British Hudson's Bay Company outposts, with the surrender the unarmed inhabitants of the fortress at Moose Factory, Ontario.source
  • 1698An earthquake of magnitude 7.2–7.9 damages an extended region around Ambato, Ecuador, including the Tungurahua, Cotopaxi and Chimborazo provinces. Ambato and Latacunga are completely destroyed and several thousand casualties are reported.source
  • 1705The Pact of Genoa is signed by representatives of England and the Spanish Principality of Catalonia as a military alliance providing for English troops to be stationed in Catalonia as part of the War of Spanish Succession.source
  • 1705The Pact of Genoa is signed by representatives of England and the Spanish Principality of Catalonia as a military alliance providing for English troops to be stationed in Catalonia as part of the War of Spanish Succession.source
  • 1714In France, Henri-Charles du Cambout de Coislin, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Metz, condemns the papal bull Unigenitus, issued by Pope Clement XI against the 1671 commentary by Pasquier Quesnel of the four Gospels and inflaming the Jansenist controversy.source
  • 1719Battle of Francavilla: The Austrians are defeated by the Spanish.source
  • 1742İzmir, formerly the ancient Greek city of Smyrna, is destroyed by fire.source
  • 1750Eggert Ólafsson and Bjarni Pálsson are recorded as the first people to climb of Hekla.source
  • 1756A garrison of the British Army in India is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.source
  • 1762In Paris, the Comédie-Italienne, having merged with the Opéra-Comique, performs at the Hôtel de Bourgognesource
  • 1768Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): Russia captures the fortress of Bar.source
  • 1774June 20 (June 9 O.S.) – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): Battle of Kozludzha – The Imperial Russian Army, led by Alexander Suvorov, routs numerically superior Ottoman Empire forces.source
  • 1782The bald eagle is chosen as the emblem of the United States of America. On the same day, the Confederation Congress adopts the design for the Great Seal of the United States.source
  • 1782Congress accepts Charles Thomson's design for the Great Seal of the United States. The bald eagle becomes the national bird of the United States.source
  • 1783Continental Army soldiers mob Independence Hall, Philadelphia, demanding back pay from the Congress of the Confederation in the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783. Congress flees to New Jersey.source
  • 1787Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention that the government be called the United States.source
  • 1789The Tennis Court Oath is taken in Versailles.source
  • 1790Compromise of 1790: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton come to an agreement: Madison agrees to not be "strenuous" in opposition for the assumption of state debts by the federal government; Hamilton agrees to support the capital site being above the Potomac.source
  • 1791French Revolution: Flight to Varennes – The French Royal Family is captured when they try to flee in disguise.source
  • 1792Demonstration of 20 June 1792.source
  • 1793June 20–22 – Haitian Revolution: Battle of Cap-Français – French Republican troops and black slave insurgents defeat Royalist and slave owner settlers.source
  • 1794June 17 - June 26 – Battle of Fleurus: The Austrians and their allies are defeated by France, leading to the loss of the Austrian Netherlands.source
  • 1798The abolishment of the Stavnsbånd, a serfdom-like institution originally introduced in 1733. The implementation was gradual.source
  • 1812Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company.source
  • 1814Gaspar de Vigodet, Spain's last colonial administrator of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (covering nearly all of modern-day Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay), surrenders the city of Montevideo to independence fighters, led by General Carlos María de Alvear.source
  • 1826The Burney Treaty is signed in Bangkok between the United Kingdom and the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Siam, securing British power in southeast Asia.source
  • 1826Burney Treaty increases British control over south-east Asia.source
  • 1832Eighty-eight deaths from Asiatic cholera are reported at Montreal.source
  • 1837Queen Victoria, 18, accedes to the throne of the United Kingdom, on the death of her uncle King William IV without legitimate heirs (she will reign for more than 63 years). Under Salic law, the Kingdom of Hanover passes to William's brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, ending the personal union of Britain and Hanover which has persisted since 1714.source
  • 1837Queen Victoria, 18, accedes to the throne of the United Kingdom, on the death of her uncle William IV without legitimate heirs (she will reign for more than 63 years). Under Salic law, the Kingdom of Hanover passes to William's brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, ending the personal union of Britain and Hanover which has persisted since 1714.source
  • 1838June 20–22 - Battle of Peñacerradasource
  • 1840June 12–23 – The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, at Exeter Hall in London, England. Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for women's suffrage in the United States.source
  • 1846The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules developed by Alexander Cartwright is played in Hoboken, New Jersey.source
  • 1847Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert shopping arcade opened in Brussels.source
  • 1848Jens Carl Peter Brandt, businessperson and politician (died 1912)source
  • 1849Hungarian Revolution of 1848: Russian troops, under the command of Alexander von Lüders, break in Transylvania, and, together with the Austrian forces, start to operate against the Hungarian troops, led by Józef Bem.source
  • 1856General Mills is founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, as the Minneapolis Milling Company.source
  • 1857The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is officially opened by Queen Victoria.source
  • 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857: The last rebels surrender in Gwalior.source
  • 1858End of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which Major General Charles Hinde plays a major role in suppressing.source
  • 1863West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.source
  • 1866The Kingdom of Italy declares war on Austria.source
  • 1866Adelaide's town Hall openssource
  • 1867The first recorded association football match in Argentina takes place in Buenos Aires.source
  • 1868Fort Fred Steele is established to protect what is at this time the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railway, near modern-day Sinclair, Wyoming.source
  • 1877Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.source
  • 1877The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick had destroyed over 80 hectares (200 acres) and 1,612 structures including eight churches, six banks, fourteen hotels, eleven schooners and four wood boats.source
  • 1878The United States Coast Survey is renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.source
  • 1881The current Cincinnati Reds baseball team plays its first game.source
  • 1881A law is passed to found first rural hospitals, initially in unoccupied monasteries until they could build their own buildings.source
  • 1887Jubilee coinage first issued, including the only issue of a double florin.source
  • 1887The British Empire celebrates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, marking the 50th year of her reign.source
  • 1887Golden Jubilee of Victoria's accession as Queensource
  • 1890The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde) is published by Philadelphia-based Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (dated July).source
  • 1892Transvaal – Malelane to Nelspruit, 38 mi.source
  • 1893Zentis, a confectionery and preserve concern, begins trading in Aachen.source
  • 1893The Wengernalpbahn railway in Wengen, Switzerland (Canton of Bern) is opened.source
  • 1893Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the axe murder of her parents in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892.source
  • 1893Lizzie Borden is found not guilty for the murder of her father and step-mother in New Bedford, Massachusetts.source
  • 1894The commune of Porvenir is founded.source
  • 1895The Treaty of Amapala establishes the union of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador (which ends in 1898).source
  • 1900Boxer Rebellion: Boxers gather about 20,000 people near Peking, and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.source
  • 1900August 14 — Siege of the International Legationssource
  • 1904The P&O ship SS Australia is wrecked at the entrance to Port Phillip. There is no loss of life.source
  • 1905Ernest Henry Starling introduces the word "hormone" into the English language.source
  • 1910June 14–23 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.source
  • 1911Idemitsu Shokai, as predecessor of Idemitsu Showa Shell Petroleum, founded in Moji, now part of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.source
  • 1917Natal – Gingindlovu to Eshowe, 20 mi 2 ch.source
  • 1920Transport workers' unions declare an international boycott on Hungarysource
  • 1921June 15 – 29-year-old African American Bessie Coleman obtains her pilot's licence in France and becomes the first black woman to have a pilot's licence.source
  • 1924The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is founded.source
  • 1926Crisis between the prime minister İsmet İnönü and the special court about the court's right to arrest of Kazım Karabekir who was an MP. (Mustafa Kemal mediated and the crisis ended on the 5th of July)source
  • 1928Puniša Račić kills three opposition representatives in the Yugoslavian Parliament, and injures three others, in a gun attack.source
  • 1932The Benelux customs union is negotiated.source
  • 1934Rius (Eduardo Humberto del Río García), political cartoonist and writer (died 2017)source
  • 1941Odd Bondevik, bishopsource
  • 1941Walt Disney's live-action/animated feature The Reluctant Dragon is released.source
  • 1943June 20–23 – The Detroit race riot of 1943 in the United States kills 34 people (25 African Americans, 9 whites), wounds hundreds more and damages and destroys property worth millions.source
  • 1943Several U.S. Marines drown during landing exercises at Paekākāriki.source
  • 1944WWII: A V-2 rocket becomes the first man-made object to cross the Kármán line and reach the edge of space.source
  • 1947Dagupan becomes a city in the province of Pangasinan through Republic Act 170 and ratified on the same day.source
  • 1952President Getúlio Vargas signs a law, creating the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES, formerly BNDE).source
  • 1953Singapore Association for the Blind announced that, with a badge, blind people can now travel free on buses operated by eight Chinese companies.source
  • 1958The iron barque Omega of Callao, Peru (built in Liverpool, 1887), the world's last full-rigged ship trading under sail alone, sinks on passage carrying guano from the Pachacamac Islands for Huacho.source
  • 1959The Ministry of National Development will start a team with seven Assembly members from 22 June, with many departments to be consolidated under MND. The Singapore Improvement Trust will also be brought under the Ministry in future.source
  • 1959The Escuminac Disaster results in 35 fishermen drowned or missing and 22 fishing boats sunk.source
  • 1960The short-lived Mali Federation, consisting of the Sudanese Republic (modern-day Republic of Mali) and Senegal, gains independence from France.source
  • 1960Floyd Patterson becomes the first person to regain the world heavyweight boxing championship, with a knock-out of Ingemar Johansson in New York City.source
  • 1963Establishment of the Moscow–Washington hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL; unofficially, the "red telephone"; and in fact a teleprinter link) is authorized by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States.source
  • 1963Swedish Air Force Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested as a spy for the Soviet Union.source
  • 1963War film The Great Escape (starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough) is premiered in London.source
  • 1964The Ford GT40 makes its first appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Its first victory will come 2 years later in 1966.source
  • 1965Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President Ahmed Ben Bella.source
  • 1968Austin Currie, Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, along with others, squats in a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.source
  • 1972June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.source
  • 1973The Ezeiza massacre occurs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers shoot at left-wing Peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.source
  • 1973Ezeiza massacre: Former president Juan Perón returns to Argentina. His plane has to be redirected to a military airport because of fighting between armed Peronist factions that have massed to greet his arrival at Buenos Aires's main airport. This event, known as the Ezeiza massacre, left 13 dead and more than 300 injured.source
  • 1973Ernest Arendt is appointed to the Council of State.source
  • 1976Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.source
  • 1976Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76 when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.source
  • 1978The 6.2 Mw Thessaloniki earthquake shakes Northern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Fifty people were killed.source
  • 1978The 6.2 Mw Thessaloniki earthquake affected Central Macedonia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 45–50 deaths and 100–220 injuries.source
  • 1979A Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.source
  • 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
  • 1981June 20–21. First All-Polish meeting of independent publishers takes place in Warsaw. Among participating offices, are ABC (Kraków), Alternatywy (Gdańsk), 3 Maja (Warsaw), Krąg (Warsaw), Młoda Polska (Gdańsk), Spotkania (Lublin-Kraków-Warsaw), NOWa (Warsaw).source
  • 1982Falklands War ends with British forces retaking the South Sandwich Islands.source
  • 19851985 Nepal bombings: A series of bomb blasts occurs in Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal.source
  • 1987New Zealand wins the inaugural Rugby World Cup after beating France in the final.source
  • 1990The town of Kalmunai is allegedly subjected to intense shelling by the Sri Lanka Army. As a result, the LTTE withdrew from the town. Subsequently, once the army had occupied the town, the massacre of civilians began. The UTHR said that the number of people who were killed or disappeared by the Sri Lankan Army was over 1,000 and alleged that over 250 were killed.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting three Canadian and eight U.S. cities.source
  • 1991Harry Collinson, the planning officer for Derwentside District Council, is shot dead at Butsfield, County Durham, England, and the incident is caught on camera by a BBC regional news crew.source
  • 1992Estonia adopts the kroon as currency, becoming the first former Soviet Republic to replace the Soviet rouble.source
  • 1992The Soviet ruble was replaced with kroon.source
  • 1993June 18–20: Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)source
  • 1999Australia defeats Pakistan by 8 wickets at Lord's Cricket Ground in London in the 1999 Cricket World Cup Final, securing their second World Cup title.source
  • 2003Former President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing presents his draft for a Constitution of the European Union.source
  • 2009Algeria's initial case of swine flu has been detected at Houari Boumediene Airport. The sick woman is an Algerian national who resides in Frankfurt, Germany and came to Algiers from Miami, Florida. She was conveyed to El Kettar Hospital for treatment.source
  • 2013A major fire breaks out at the Riga Castle, the Latvian presidential palace.source
  • 2018After widespread criticism, US President Donald Trump signs an executive order suspending his zero-tolerance family separation policies, though thousands of undocumented children were never reunited with their families even after the policy was suspended.source
  • 2019June 20–21 – Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to North Korea. It is his first visit to the country as president and the first visit to North Korea by a Chinese leader since Hu Jintao's visit 14 years prior.source
  • 2019Hundreds are injured as Georgian riot police fires rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters trying to overcome a police cordon at the Parliament building in Tbilisi. The incident is sparked by a Russian parliamentarian speaking from the speaker's chair during an international Orthodox assembly. As the opposition and civil society protests continue, the senior ruling Georgian Dream party MP Zakaria Kutsnashvili and chairman of the parliament Irakli Kobakhidze resign, while the Georgian Dream chairman Bidzina Ivanishvili promises to hold the 2020 legislative election as a fully proportional vote with zero threshold, as demanded by the protesters. Russia responds to the Georgian opposition protests by banning flights to Tbilisi and ordering Russian tourists to leave Georgia.source
  • 20192019 Iranian shoot-down of American drone: Iran shoots down a U.S. RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz after claiming it violated their airspace. The U.S. claims it has been shot down in international airspace in an "unprovoked attack".source
  • 20212021 Armenian parliamentary election: Acting PM Nikol Pashinyan wins the country's snap election, with his Civil Contract party gaining 54% of the vote.source
  • 2024July 14 – The 2024 Copa América is held in the United States, and is won by Argentina.source
  • 2025An EF5 tornado strikes southeast of Enderlin, North Dakota, becoming the first EF5 tornado globally since May 20, 2013.source

Births

  • 1005al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah, Fatimid caliph of Egypt (died 1036)source
  • 1162Benchō, Japanese Buddhist patriarch (died 1238)source
  • 1271John de Ferrers, English nobleman (died 1312)source
  • 1389John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, regent of England (died 1435)source
  • 1469Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (died 1494)source
  • 1566King Sigismund III Vasa, of Poland and Sweden (died 1632)source
  • 1566Sigismund III Vasa, monarch (died 1632)source
  • 1583Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (died 1652)source
  • 1583Jacob De la Gardie, statesman and soldier (died 1652 in Sweden)source
  • 1589Giambattista Altieri, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1654)source
  • 1615June 20 (or July 31) – Salvator Rosa, Italian painter (died 1673)source
  • 1634Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (died 1675)source
  • 1647John George III, Elector of Saxony (died 1691)source
  • 1723Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, historian (died 1816)source
  • 1723Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (died 1808)source
  • 1726Louise Henriette of Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, mother of Philippe Égalité (died 1759)source
  • 1756Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer (died 1792)source
  • 1763Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot (executed 1798)source
  • 1771Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, colonizer and author (d.1820)source
  • 1777Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (d.1840)source
  • 1779Dorothy Ann Thrupp, British psalmist, hymnwriter, translator (died 1847)source
  • 1808Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (died 1888)source
  • 1808Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (died 1888)source
  • 1819Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer (died 1880)source
  • 1858Charles W. Chesnutt, African-American author, essayist, political activist (died 1932)source
  • 1909Errol Flynn, Australian-born American actor (died 1959)source
  • 1961Joko Widodo, 7th President of Indonesiasource
  • 1967Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actresssource
  • 1973Josh Shapiro, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvaniasource
  • 1978Frank Lampard, English footballersource
  • 1994Haris Tabaković, footballersource

Deaths

  • 465Wen Cheng Di, emperor of Northern Wei (born 440)source
  • 656Uthman ibn Affan, Muslim Caliph (born 577) (martyred)source
  • 840Louis the Pious, Emperor of the Romans and King of the Franks, falls ill and dies at his hunting lodge, on an island in the Rhine, near the Ingelheim Imperial Palace in Francia, while suppressing a revolt. He proclaims his eldest son Lothair I as his successor as Emperor. Lothair tries to seize all the territories of his late grandfather Charlemagne. Louis' son by his second wife, Charles, 17, becomes King of the Franks, and joins with his half-brother Louis the German in resisting Lothair.source
  • 840Louis the Pious, ruler of the Carolingian Empire (born 778)source
  • 930Hucbald, Frankish monk and music theoristsource
  • 981Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburgsource
  • 1119Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick, Norman noblemansource
  • 1154Ermengol VI ("el de Castilla"), count of Urgell (born 1096)source
  • 1180Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese military leader (born 1106)source
  • 1201Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Persian historian (born 1125)source
  • 1277June 20 (or May 1279) – Shams al-Din Mehmed of Karaman, Seljuk nobleman and viziersource
  • 1351Margareta Ebner, German nun (born 1291)source
  • 1483The powerful Duke Fernando II of Braganza is executed in Portugal, followed by more than 80 other noblemen, for his plot against the royal crown.source
  • 1584Dermot O'Hurley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, put to death for treason. (born c. 1530)source
  • 1597Willem Barents, Dutch navigator and explorer (born c. 1550)source
  • 1667James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge, British prince (born 1663)source
  • 1668Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (born 1620)source
  • 1739Edmond Martène, French Benedictine historian and liturgist (born 1654)source
  • 1787Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (born 1723)source
  • 1818Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of Sweden and Norway (born 1759)source
  • 1820Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician, general in the Independence War (born 1770)source
  • 1836Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric, constitutional theorist (born 1748)source
  • 1837King William IV of the United Kingdom and Hannover (born 1765)source
  • 1837William IV King of Hannover (born 1765)source
  • 1869Hijikata Toshizō, Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi, and military leader (born 1835)source
  • 1876John Neal, American writer, critic and women's rights activist (born 1793)source
  • 1908Federico Chueca, composer (born 1846)source
  • 2006Sa'd ibn Junaydil, historical geographer. (born 1915)source
  • 2023At least 46 people are killed after a riot between MS-13 and Barrio 18 gang members at a women's prison near Tegucigalpa, Honduras.source