June 20 is the 171th day of the year (172th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining until the end of the year.
Railways
- 20 June 2003 The route of the Erzurum Express, which operates on the Ankara-Erzurum line, has been extended to Kars.
Events
- 404 – Hagia Sophia was burned during the riots.
- 1481 – II. Cem Sultan lost the throne war between Bayezid and Cem Sultan in Yenişehir Plain.
- 1837 - Queen Victoria ascended the throne of the United Kingdom at the age of 18. He will be the longest reigning British Sovereign, with more than 63 years on the throne.
- 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell launches the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1840 - Samuel Morse patented the telegraph.
- 1884 – Civil Engineering School was established.
- 1920 – Circassian Ethem forces set out from Ankara to suppress the Yozgat Uprising.
- 1926 – Arrests continue regarding the attempted assassination of Kemal Atatürk in İzmir; Ali Fuat Cebesoy, a former Progressive Republican Party leader, was arrested, and Kazım Karabekir was arrested on 22 June.
- 1938 – 19 May was accepted as a National Holiday with the law no 3466. Youth AnthemIt was accepted as the Youth and Sports Day Anthem.
- 1943 – 5,6 people died in an earthquake with a magnitude of 346 in Adapazarı.
- 1946 – The Socialist Working Peasant Party of Turkey was founded under the leadership of Şefik Hüsnü.
- 1960 - Mali and Senegal declared their independence.
- 1961 – Turkey started to export its workforce. Those who wanted to go to Germany gathered in front of the Turkish Employment Agency.
- 1961 – Camlica, Turkey's first mint (menthol) cigarette, was launched.
- 1965 – Algerian leader Ahmed Ben Bella was removed from power in a military coup. The military coup was led by Colonel Huari Boumedien.
- 1987 – Pınarcık massacre: PKK militants killed 16 people, 30 of whom were children, in Pınarcık village in Mardin's Ömerli district.
- 1990 – A major flood disaster occurred in Akcaabat. 39 people died, 4 disappeared.
- 1990 – The first Martian trojan asteroid, 5261 Eureka, is discovered.
- 1991 – The German Parliament decided to move the country's capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
- 2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes President of Pakistan.
Births
- 1723 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and historian (d. 1816)
- 1743 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English writer (d. 1825)
- 1756 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer (d. 1792)
- 1819 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born French musician and composer (d. 1880)
- 1887 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter and sculptor (d. 1948)
- 1899 – Jean Moulin, French statesman and leader of the French Resistance (d. 1943)
- 1905 Lillian Hellman, American author (d. 1984)
- 1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (d. 1959)
- 1914 – Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish sumerologist
- 1915 – Terence Young, English film director (d. 1994)
- 1916 – Hamiyet Yüceses, Turkish singer (d. 1996)
- 1922 – Cevat Kurtuluş, Turkish film actor (d. 1992)
- 1924 – Audie Murphy, American actor (d. 1971)
- 1928 – Martin Landau, American actor (d. 2017)
- 1928 – William Berger, Austrian film actor (d. 1993)
- 1928 – Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician
- 1931 – Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American actress (d. 2021)
- 1932 – Altan Öymen, Turkish journalist, politician and former Republican People's Party Chairman
- 1934 – Anne Sylvestre, French singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
- 1940 – Eugen Drewermann, German theologian, church critic, peace activist, and former Catholic priest
- 1940 – John Mahoney, British-born American actor (d. 2018)
- 1941 – Stephen Frears, British film director
- 1942 – Humayun Behzadi, Iranian football player (d. 2016)
- 1942 – Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, Turkish lawyer (d. 2006)
- 1942 – Brian Wilson, American songwriter, musician, vocalist, record producer, composer, and arranger
- 1946 – Xanana Gusmão, East Timor politician
- 1946 – Zülfü Livaneli, Turkish musician, writer, director and politician
- 1949 – Lionel Richie, American soul and R&B singer
- 1950 - Gudrun Landgrebe, German actress
- 1950 – Hüsamettin Özkan, Turkish politician
- 1950 – Nuri Gökaşan, Turkish theater and film actor
- 1951 – Tress MacNeille, American actress and voice actor
- 1951 – João Semedo, Portuguese politician and physicist (d. 2018)
- 1952 – John Goodman, American actor and Emmy Award winner
- 1953 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (d. 2007)
- 1954 – Ilan Ramon, fighter pilot of the Israeli Air Force, the first astronaut sent into space by the State of Israel (d. 2003)
- 1961 – Erdal Keser, Turkish football player
- 1961 – Yalçın Çakır, Turkish journalist, writer and photographer
- 1966 – Fatma Şahin, Turkish politician
- 1967 – Nicole Kidman, American actress
- 1968 – Tonya Kinzinger, American actress and model
- 1968 – Robert Rodriguez, American writer, producer, musician, and film director
- 1969 – Paulo Bento, Portuguese football player and manager
- 1970 – Andrea Nahles, German politician
- 1971 – Jeordie White, American bass guitarist
- 1975 – Uğur Taner, Turkish swimmer
- 1976 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian former international football player
- 1978 - Quinton Jackson, American professional wrestler
- 1978 Frank Lampard, English football player
- 1981 – Angerfist is a Dutch DJ
- 1981 – Brede Hangeland was a Norwegian national football player of US origin.
- 1982 – Alexei Berezutskiy, Russian former football player
- 1982 - Vasily Berezutskiy, Russian former international football player
- 1982 – Example is an English rapper and songwriter.
- 1985 – Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
- 1986 – Luca Cigarini, Italian football player
- 1987 – Asmir Begović, Bosnian national football player
- 1987 – Itumeleng Isaac Khune, South African national football player
- 1989 – Javier Pastore, Argentine national football player
- 1990 – Eda Ece, Turkish actress
- 1990 – Fab Melo, Brazilian former basketball player (d. 2017)
- 1991 – Rasmus Lauge Schmidt is a Danish handball player.
- 1993 – İrem Karamete, Turkish fencer
- 1993 – Sead Kolašinac is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian German football player.
Deaths
- 840 – Ludwig I, king of the Franks with his father Charlemagne since 813 (b. 778)
- 1277 – Karamanoğlu Mehmed Bey, the founder and first Ruler of the Karamanoğulları Principality (b. ?)
- 1597 – Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator and explorer (b. 1550)
- 1605 – II. Fyodor is Tsar of Russia (b. 1589)
- 1813 – Joseph Chinard, French sculptor (b. 1756)
- 1820 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader (b. 1770)
- 1836 – Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, French Catholic clergyman, political essayist, and diplomat (b. 1748)
- 1837 – IV. William, king of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830-1837 and uncle of Queen Victoria (b. 1765)
- 1875 – Peter von Uslar, Russian general, engineer, and linguist (b. 1816)
- 1856 – Florestan I, 27th prince of Monaco and duke of Valentinois (b. 1785)
- 1883 – Gustave Aimard, French writer (b. 1818)
- 1888 – Johannes Zukertort, Polish-German-English chess player (b. 1842)
- 1897 – Japetus Steenstrup, Danish scientist, zoologist (b. 1813)
- 1898 – Manuel Tamayo y Baus, Spanish dramatist (b. 1829)
- 1912 – Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (b. 1866)
- 1933 – Clara Zetkin, German revolutionary socialist politician and women's rights activist (b. 1857)
- 1938 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator and author (disappeared July 2, 1937, declared dead June 20, 1938) (b. 1897)
- 1940 – Jehan Alain, French composer and organist (b. 1911)
- 1944 – Süleyman Necati Güneri, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1889)
- 1947 – Bugsy Siegel, American mob leader (b. 1906)
- 1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1959 – Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician who served as the 1948th prime minister of Japan in 47 (b. 1887)
- 1963 – Hans Turistg, American billionaire businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist (b. 1901)
- 1966 – George Lemaître, Belgian scientist and priest (b. 1894)
- 1972 – Şeref Akdik, Turkish painter and calligrapher (b. 1899)
- 1978 – Mark Robson, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1913)
- 1984 – Erdoğan Özen, Turkish diplomat and Working Attache of the Turkish Embassy in Vienna (as a result of the assassination organized by the organization called “Armenian Revolutionary Army”) (b. 1934)
- 1987 – Niyazi Ağırnaslı, Turkish politician and former Senator of the Workers' Party of Turkey (b. 1911)
- 1989 – Hasan İzzettin Dinamo, Turkish poet and writer (b. 1909)
- 1993 – György Sárosi, former Hungarian national football player (b. 1912)
- 1995 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (b. 1911)
- 1997 – John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949)
- 1997 – Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet (b. 1917)
- 2002 – Erwin Chargaff, German biochemist (b. 1905)
- 2002 – Behlül Dal, Turkish director and originator of the Golden Orange Film Festival (b. 1922)
- 2004 – Engin İnal, Turkish theater, cinema, TV series artist, translator and writer (b. 1942)
- 2005 – Jack Kilby, American engineer and inventor (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Abdulmalik Rigi, Baluch militant, former leader of the Sunni Islamist Jundullah organization (b. 1983)
- 2010 – Roberto Rosato, Italian football player (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Ryan Dunn, American stunt performer, actor, and comedian (b. 1977)
- 2011 – Safa Giray is a Turkish politician descended from the Giray Dynasty (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Murat Sökmenoğlu, Turkish politician (b. 1945)
- 2015 – Miriam Schapiro is a Canadian-born artist (b. 1923)
- 2016 – Edgard Pisani, French politician (b. 1918)
- 2017 – Ayşe Aral, Turkish journalist, columnist and TV presenter (b. 1971)
- 2017 – Sergey Milnikov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player (b. 1958)
- 2017 – Prodigy, American rapper (b. 1974)
- 2017 – Fredrik Skagen, Norwegian writer (b. 1936)
- 2018 – Ken Albiston, Australian football player (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Wibke Bruhns, German journalist, television presenter and author (b. 1938)
- 2020 – Pedro Lima, Angolan-Portuguese television presenter, swimmer and actor (b. 1971)
- 2020 – Kamal Lohani, Bangladeshi journalist (b. 1934)
- 2020 – Mufti Muhammad Naeem, Pakistani cleric (b. 1958)
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