June 20
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[edit] Events
- 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.
- 1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter.
- 1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
- 1756 - British garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1791 - King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during The French Revolution.
- 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
- 1862 - Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
- 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, Canada
- 1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.
- 1963 - The so-called "red telephone" is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
[edit] Births
- 1905 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
- 1928 - Jean-Marie Le Pen, French politician
[edit] Deaths
- 451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
- 1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American crime figure (b. 1906)
