History of June 20

On June 20 the following events have occured in our world's history.

1632 - Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1756 - British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most died
1779 - Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & the Eagle as it's symbol
1791 - King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1837 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1855 - Comm appoints to lay out streets west of Larkin - SF
1863 - West Virginia became 35th state
1867 - Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1893 - Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
1895 - Nicaragua - El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1913 - Bert Daniels set AL mark by getting hit 3 times in a doubleheader
1920 - Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
1939 - Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1947 - Gangster Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1947 - Pres Truman vetoed Taft-Hartley Act
1948 - Toast of the Town hosted by Ed Sullivan premier on CBS-TV
1950 - Joe Dimaggio's 2000th hit - Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1963 - US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1963 - 1st Mayor's Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 6-2
1966 - Georges Lemaitre - originator of "big bang" theory - dies at 71
1967 - Muhammad Ali convicted of violating draft law in Houston
1968 - Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
1976 - River Country opens
1977 - Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1982 - It's National Bald Eagle Day
1982 - Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
1983 - Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
1986 - Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan
1987 - Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass