June 20 History Highlights
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Zellonia shares a June 20 timeline covering major moments from ancient battles and medieval conflicts to revolutionary milestones and technological firsts. The announcement highlights events like pivotal military engagements, oath-driven political shifts, the patenting of the telegraph, early transatlantic steam navigation, and other notable historical turning points relevant to our community.
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June 20
Ancient World
451 â Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
Middle Ages
1180 â First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
1622 â The Battle of Höchst takes place during the Thirty Years' War.
1631 â The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Barbary slave traders.
1652 â Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
1685 â Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1756 â A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
Revolutionary Age
1782 â The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1787 â Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
1789 â Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
1791 â King Louis XVI, disguised as a valet, and the French royal family attempt to flee Paris during the French Revolution.
1819 â The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
1837 â King William IV dies, and is succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
1840 â Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1862 â Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 â American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 â Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1895 â The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
1900 â Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
1900 â Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
World Wars
1942 â The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-TotenkopfverbĂ€nde, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1943 â The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
1943 â World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
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