What are the important events that happened on June 20? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 20: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 20 is the 171st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 7, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,750,377,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontahenagon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 242 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,564 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 20: This Day In History
On leap years, this day usually marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere.
June 20 Historical Events
- 1214 –The University of Oxford receives its charter.
- 1605 –After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
- 1756 –A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1819 –The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. She 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.
- 1863 –American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
- 1943 –The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
- 1948 –Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
- 1960 –The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
- 1982 –The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
Who were born on June 20?
- 1469 –Gian Galeazzo Sforza, duke of Milan (d. 1494)
- 1920 –Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater
- 1928 –Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (d. 1964)
- 1940 –Eugen Drewermann, German theologian
- 1941 –Stephen Frears, English film director
- 1947 –Candy Clark, American actress
- 1956 –Peter Reid, English former footballer
- 1978 –Bobby Seay, American baseball player
- 1978 –LaVar Arrington, American football player
- 1982 –George Forsyth, Peruvian footballer
Who died on June 20?
- 1668 –Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
- 1776 –Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
- 1787 –Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
- 1810 –Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish statesman (b. 1755)
- 1840 –Pierre Claude François Daunou, French statesman and historian (b. 1761)
- 1869 –Hijikata Toshizō, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
- 1888 –Johannes Zukertort, German-Polish-Jewish chess master (b. 1842)
- 1945 –Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
- 1984 –Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
- 2009 –Neda Agha-Soltan, Iranian student (b. 1982)
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