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June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 194 days remaining.
Events
1200-1899
1900-1999 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico . 1939 - Benny Goodman 's Song School ends its radio series. 1948 - Toast of the Town , later The Ed Sullivan Show , debuts. 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Ashbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people 1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal . 1963 - "Hotline" established between United States . 1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels of wheat to Soviet Union . 1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France 1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). 1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic boxing trilogy with Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship. 1983 - LZW patent filed in USA. 1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered. 1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin . 1998 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the sixth annual of the KROQ Weenie Roast with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy , Blink-182 , Cherry Poppin' Daddies , Creed , The Crystal Method , Deftones , Everclear , Harvey Danger , Madness , Marcy Playground , Ozomatli , The Prodigy , Save Ferris and Third Eye Blind .
2000-2099
Births
1500-1899 1561 - Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1632 ) 1634 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675 ) 1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus , composer 1763 - Wolfe Tone , Irish patriot 1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk , philanthropist, entrepreneur (d. 1820 ) 1797 - Sophie (Frémiet) Rude, French artist (d. 1867 ) 1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch , rabbi (d. 1888 ) 1819 - Jacques Offenbach , composer (d. 1880 ) 1887 - Kurt Schwitters , painter (Dadaist ), writer (d. 1948 ) 1899 - Jean Moulin , leader of the French Resistance in WW II.
1900-1999 1905 - Lillian Hellman , playwright (d. 1984 ) 1909 - Errol Flynn , actor (d. 1959 ) 1912 - Anthony Buckeridge , author (d. 2004 ) 1924 - Chet Atkins , country guitar player 1931 - Olympia Dukakis , actress 1931 - Martin Landau , actor 1936 - Danny Aiello , actor 1937 - Donald Sullivan, priest 1940 - Eugen Drewermann, theologian 1940 - John Mahoney , actor 1941 - Ulf Merbold , physicist and astronaut 1941 - Ilse Ritter, actress 1942 - Brian Wilson , bass player and singer for The Beach Boys 1944 - Cheryl Holdridge , actress and Mouseketeer 1945 - Shekhar Mehta, racer, winner of the Safari Rally 1945 - Anne Murray , singer 1946 - Bob Vila , handyman 1947 - Dolores "LaLa" Brooks , singer, member of the Crystals 1949 - Lionel Richie , musician 1951 - Tress MacNeille , voice actress (The Simpsons , Animaniacs , Rugrats ) 1952 - John Goodman , actor 1953 - Cyndi Lauper , singer 1967 - Nicole Kidman , actress 1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid , prince of Morocco 1971 - Jeordie White , bassist for Marilyn Manson from 1990 – 2002 1985 - Doug Sauve, Lord of Cambridgeshire
Deaths
1500-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Holidays and observances June 19 - June 21 - May 20 - July 20 -- listing of all days