# 20 Juin

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The **20t o Juin** is the 171t day o the year (172t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 194 days ti come.

## Events

1837: Accession o Queen Victoria
1884: Pentre Ifan Neolithic Monument
* 1605 – Efter anly three month as tsar, 16-year-auld Feodor II o Roushie is assassinatit.
* 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds tae the Breetish throne.
* 1863 – Wast Virginie becomes the 35t state o the Unitit States.
* 1870 – A peace treaty ends the Triple Alliance War, which wis the bloodiest war in Sooth America, parteecularly in terms o Paraguay's heich casualty nummers.
* 1884 – Pentre Ifan neolithic monument in Pembrokeshire, Wales, is designatit as a Scheduled Monument.
* 1940 – Warld War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion o Fraunce.
* 1960 – The Mali Federation gains unthirldom frae Fraunce (it later splits intae Mali an Senegal).
* 1977 – Menachem Begin becomes Prime meenister o Israel.
* 1977 – The first oil flows through the Alaska Pipeline.
* 1991 – The German pairlament decides tae move the caipital ceety frae Bonn tae Berlin.
* 1992 – Estonie decides tae use the Kroon as its currency.
* 2004 – The Faroese leid Wikipaedia is creatit.
* 2009 – Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan is shot an kilt durin the kintra's post-election protests.
* 2010 – Juan Manuel Santos is electit Preses o Colombie.
* 2019 – Iran shuits doon a Unitit States surveillance drone ower the Strait o Hormuz; US Preses Donald Trump later cancels an airstrike on Iran in the last minute.
* 2019 – Boris Johnson an Jeremy Hunt become the feenal twa candidates for the leadership o the Breetish Conservative Pairty an Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 2020 – Record heich temperaturs are recordit in the Airctic Region; Verkhoyansk in Roushie records 38 degrees celsius.
* 2020 – A stobbin attack in Forbury Gairdens in Reading, Berkshire, Ingland, results in the daiths o three fowk.

## Births

Jacques Offenbach
Nicole Kidman
* 1566 – Sigismund III Vasa, Keeng o Poland (d. 1632)
* 1634 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke o Savoy (d. 1675)
* 1723 – Adam Ferguson, Scots philosopher an historian (d. 1816)
* 1771 – Thomas Douglas, 5t Yerl o Selkirk, Scots peer (d. 1820)
* 1819 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French componer (d. 1880)
* 1855 – Archibald Hay, 13t Yerl o Kinnoull, Scots peer an sodger (d. 1916)
* 1861 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Inglis biochemist (d. 1947)
* 1873 – Willie Orr, Scots fitbawer (d. 1946)
* 1891 – John A. Costello, Erse Taoiseach (d. 1976)
* 1909 – Errol Flynn, Australie-American actor (d. 1959)
* 1913 – Infante Juan, Coont o Barcelona, Spaingie ryal (d. 1993)
* 1928 – Martin Landau, American actor (d. 2017)
* 1928 – Jean-Marie Le Pen, French politeecian
* 1931 – Olympia Dukakis, American actress
* 1934 – Graham Leggat, Scots fitbawer (d. 2015)
* 1943 – Gordon Wallace, Scots fitbawer
* 1946 – Xanana Gusmao, umwhile Preses o East Timor
* 1949 – Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Preses o Sri Lanka
* 1949 – Lionel Richie, American sangster
* 1950 – Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi politeecian
* 1952 – John Goodman, American actor
* 1952 – Vikram Seth, Indie writer
* 1954 – Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut (d. 2003)
* 1967 – Nicole Kidman, Australie actress
* 1968 – Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime meenister o Poland
* 1972 – Craig Thomson, Scots fitbaw referee
* 1978 – Frank Lampard, Inglis fitbawer
* 1995 – Caroline Weir, Scots fitbawer
* 1997 – Luke Watt, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths

* 1597 - Willem Barentsz, Dutch splorer (b. 1550)
* 1605 - Feodor II o Roushie (b. 1589)
* 1837 - William IV o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1765)
* 1897 - Margaret Oliphant, Scots novelist (b. 1828)
* 1933 - Clara Zetkin, German communist politeecian an advocate o weemen's richts (b. 1857)
* 1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (b. 1902)
* 1968 - Jimmy Cowan, Scots fitbawer (b. 1926)
* 2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical ingineer (b. 1923)
* 2009 - Neda Agha-Soltan, Iranian student (b. 1983)

## Halidays

* Day o the Naitional Banner (Argentinae)
* Warld Refugee Day
* Northren Simmer Solstice (in lowp years)
* Soothren Winter Solstice (in lowp years)