20 Juin

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

*1605 &ndash; Efter anly three month as tsar, 16-year-auld Feodor II o Roushie is assassinatit.
*1837 &ndash; Queen Victoria succeeds tae the Breetish throne.
*1863 &ndash; Wast Virginie becomes the 35t state o the Unitit States.
*1870 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Pentre Ifan neolithic monument in Pembrokeshire, Wales, is designatit as a Scheduled Monument.
*1940 &ndash; Warld War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion o Fraunce.
*1960 &ndash; The Mali Federation gains unthirldom frae Fraunce (it later splits intae Mali an Senegal).
*1977 &ndash; Menachem Begin becomes Prime meenister o Israel.
*1977 &ndash; The first oil flows through the Alaska Pipeline.
*1991 &ndash; The German pairlament decides tae move the caipital ceety frae Bonn tae Berlin.
*1992 &ndash; Estonie decides tae use the Kroon as its currency.
*2004 &ndash; The Faroese leid Wikipaedia is creatit.
*2009 &ndash; Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan is shot an kilt durin the kintra's post-election protests.
*2010 &ndash; Juan Manuel Santos is electit Preses o Colombie.
*2019 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Record heich temperaturs are recordit in the Airctic Region; Verkhoyansk in Roushie records 38 degrees celsius.
*2020 &ndash; A stobbin attack in Forbury Gairdens in Reading, Berkshire, Ingland, results in the daiths o three fowk.

## Births

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