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Monday, 20 June 2016

Today In History [20th June, 2016]


Today in History
June 20

451
Roman and barbarian warriors halt Attila‘s army at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.
1397
The Union of Kalmar unites Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch.
1756
Nearly 150 British soldiers are imprisoned in the ‘Black Hole’ cell of Calcutta. Most die.
1793
Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent.
1819
The paddle-wheel steamship Savannah arrives in Liverpool, England, after a voyage of 27 days and 11 hours–the first steamship to successfully cross the Atlantic.
1837
18-year-old Victoria is crowned Queen of England.
1863
President Abraham Lincoln admits West Virginia into the Union as the 35th state.
1898
On the way to the Philippines to fight the Spanish, the U.S. Navy seizes the island of Guam.
1901
Charlotte M. Manye of South Africa becomes the first native African to graduate from an American University.
1910
Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaims martial law and arrests hundreds.
1920
Race riots in Chicago, Illinois leave two dead and many wounded.
1923
France announces it will seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying her war debts.
1941
The U.S. Army Air Force is established, replacing the Army Air Corps.
1955
The AFL and CIO agree to combine names for a merged group.
1963
The United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a hot line between Washington and Moscow.
1964
General William Westmoreland succeeds General Paul Harkins as head of the U.S. forces in Vietnam.
1967
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali is convicted of refusing induction into the American armed services.
1972
President Richard Nixon names General Creighton Abrams as Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1999
NATO declares an official end to its bombing campaign of Yugoslavia.
Born on June 20
1723
Adam Ferguson, Scottish historian and philosopher (Principals of Moral and Political Science).
1858
Charles Chesnutt, African-American novelist.
1887
Kurt Schwitters, German artist.
1899
Jean Moulin, French Resistance fighter during World War II.
1907
Lillian Hellman, playwright (The Little Foxes, Toys in the Attic).
1909
Errol Flynn, film actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood).
1910
Chester Arthur Burnett, blues singer.
1910
Josephine Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Jordanstown, Wildwood).
1924
Chet Atkins, guitarist.
1924
Audie Murphy, American soldier during World War II, author and actor.
1928
Jean-Marie Le-Pen, leader of the National Front party in France.
1946
Andre Watts, pianist.

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