On this day: 20 June
Events, births and deaths on 20 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths ·
- Deaths · Blake Farenthold
- Events · 2025 Enderlin tornado
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Rechavam Ze'evi
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1005 · Births · Ali az-Zahir
- 981 · Deaths · Adalbert
- 930 · Deaths ·
Events · 23
- 451(Julian date)Battle of the Maureaco Fields — battle between Romans and Huns in 451
- 1180(Julian date)Battle of Uji — 1180 opening battle of the Genpei War
- 1622Battle of Höchst — 1622 battle of the thirty years war
- 1631Sack of Baltimore — 1631 Slaver raid on Irish village
- 1756Black Hole of Calcutta — Dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta
- 1789Tennis Court Oath — pivotal event in the early days of the French Revolution
- 1863West Virginia — state of the United States of America
- 1900Siege of the International Legations — 1900 battle of the Boxer Rebellion
- 19431943 Detroit race riot — 1943 race riot in Detroit, Michigan
- 1956Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253 (June 1956) — aircraft incident
- 1964Civil Air Transport Flight 106 — 1964 aviation accident
- 1973Ezeiza masacre — 1973 shooting at a Peronist rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1973Aeroméxico Flight 229 — 1973 aviation accident in Mexico
- 1982International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide — 1982 first major conference on genocide studies
- 1988June 1988 Haitian coup d'état — military overthrow of Leslie Manigat
- 19901990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake — earthquake in Rudbar County, Iran
- 1991Decision on the Capital of Germany — resolution of the German Bundestag on 20 June 1991
- 19941994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion — 1994 anti-Shia terrorist attack in Mashhad, Iran
- 2003
- 2008New's Divine nightclub tragedy — human stampede in Mexico City
- 2009Death of Neda Agha-Soltan — killing of an Iranian woman by Basij paramilitary forces
- 2011RusAir Flight 9605 — aviation accident
- 20252025 Enderlin tornado — Extremely violent tornado in North Dakota, first EF5 tornado since 2013
Births · 60
- 1389(Julian date)John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford — British duke
- 1469(Julian date)Gian Galeazzo Sforza — Duke of Milano
- 1566Sigismund III Vasa — King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 until 1632 and King of Sweden from 1592 until 1599 (1566–1632)
- 1634Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy — Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675
- 1647John George III of Saxony — Elector of Saxony from 1680 to 1691
- 1723(Julian date)Adam Ferguson — Scottish philosopher and historian; (1723-1816)
- 1763Wolfe Tone — Irish politician (1763-1798)
- 1786Marceline Desbordes-Valmore — French poet and novelist
- 1819Jacques Offenbach — German-born French composer (1819–1880)
- 1861Frederick Hopkins — English biochemist
- 1887Kurt Schwitters — German artist (1887–1948)
- 1899Jean Moulin — French resistance fighter and civil servant (1899-1943)
- 1905Lillian Hellman — American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)
- 1909Errol Flynn — Australian actor (1909–1959)
- 1915Terence Young — British film director and screenwriter (1915–1994)
- 1924Chet Atkins — American guitarist (1924–2001)
- 1925Audie Murphy — American soldier and actor (1925–1971)
- 1925Doris Hart — American tennis player (1925–2015)
- 1928Jean-Marie Le Pen — French politician (1928–2025)
- 1928Martin Landau — American actor (1928–2017)
- 1930Magdalena Abakanowicz — Polish textile artist and sculptor (1930-2017)
- 1931Olympia Dukakis — American actress (1931-2021)
- 1931James Tolkan — American actor (1931–2026)
- 1933Danny Aiello — American actor
- 1940John Mahoney — American actor (1940–2018)
Deaths · 60
- 465(Julian date)Emperor Wencheng of Northern Wei — Northern Wei emperor
- 840(Julian date)Louis the Pious — King of the Franks
- 930(Julian date)
- 981(Julian date)Adalbert — French saint, archbishop and missionary (c.910–981)
- 1176(Julian date)Mikhail I of Vladimir — Grand Prince of Kyiv and Vladimir (1145-1176)
- 1351Margareta Ebner — German nun and mystic
- 1597Willem Barents — Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer (1550–1597)
- 1605Feodor II of Russia — Tsar of Russia (1605)
- 1787Carl Friedrich Abel — German composer
- 1800Abraham Gotthelf Kästner — German mathematician (1719–1800)
- 1810Axel von Fersen the Younger — Swedish politician (1755-1810)
- 1815Guillaume Philibert Duhesme — French general (1766-1815)
- 1820Manuel Belgrano — Argentine politician and military leader
- 1837William IV — King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
- 1840Pierre Claude François Daunou — French statesman and historian of the French Revolution and Empire (1761-1840)
- 1869Hijikata Toshizō — Japanese military leader (1835-1869)
- 1870Jules de Goncourt — French writer (1830–1870)
- 1872Élie Frédéric Forey — Marshal of France (1804-1872)
- 1876John Neal — American writer (1793–1876)
- 1888Johannes Zukertort — German chess master (1842-1888)
- 1897Japetus Steenstrup — Danish zoologist (1813–1897)
- 1900Clemens von Ketteler — German diplomat (1853-1900)
- 1925Josef Breuer — Austrian physician (1842-1925)
- 1945Bruno Frank — German author, poet, dramatist, and humanist (1887–1945)
- 1946Empress Wanrong — wife of Puyi, Empress of China (1906-1946)
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