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June 20

June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining.

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1 Events

1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter.
1756 - English garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the oath of the "Jeu de Paume"
1819 - The US vessel Savannah arrives at Liverpool. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail.
1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton Ontario.
1939 - Benny Goodman's Song School ends its radio series.
1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.
1963 - "Hotline" established between Soviet Union and United States.
1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels of wheat to Soviet Union.
1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
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.
1983 - LZW patent filed in USA.
1990 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn to Berlin.
1990 - Asteroid Eureka[?] discovered.
2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan
2003 - LZW patent expires in USA.

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June 19 - June 21 - May 20 - July 20 -- listing of all days

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