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The following events took place on June 20. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 41 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 451

  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.
• 1248

  The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter.
• 1631

  The sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
• 1652

  Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1685

  Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
• 1756

  A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
• 1782

  The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
• 1787

  Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
• 1789

  Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
• 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.
• 1837

  Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
• 1840

  Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
• 1862

  Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
• 1863

  American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
• 1877

  Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• 1887

  Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
• 1893

  Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• 1895

  The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
• 1900

  Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
• 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.
• 1921

  Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
• 1940

  World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
• 1941

  The United States Army Air Corps is deprecated to being the American training and logistics section of what is known until 1947 as the United States Army Air Forces, just two days before Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• 1943

  The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
• 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”.
• 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.
• 1945

  The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
• 1948

  Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
• 1956

  A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.

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