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20 June in history
Filed Under (english, Historia) by Targenor on 20-06-2009
# 1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey was made under sail.
# 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
# 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
# 1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
# 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
# 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother.
# 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”.
# 1959 – A rare June hurricane struck Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
# 1960 – Independence of Mali and Senegal.
# 1963 – The so-called ”red telephone” is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Births
# 1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
# 1968 – Robert Rodriguez, American film director
# 1974 – Tuta, Brazilian footballer
# 1975 – Daniel Zítka, Czech footballer
Deaths
# 1810 – Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish statesman (b. 1755)
# 1947 – Bugsy Siegel, American crime figure (b. 1906)
# 1952 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
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