What are the important events that happened on June 20? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 20: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 20 is the 171^st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 7, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 486,216 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontahenagon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 242 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,564 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 20: This Day In History

On leap years, this day usually marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere.

June 20 Historical Events

• 1605 –
  After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
• 1631 –
  The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
• 1837 –
  Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
• 1863 –
  American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
• 1919 –
  150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1942 –
  The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1944 –
  Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
• 1972 –
  Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
• 1991 –
  The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
• 2003 –
  The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Who were born on June 20?

• 1717 –
  Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)
• 1756 –
  Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (d. 1792)
• 1819 –
  Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer (d. 1880)
• 1870 –
  Georges Dufrénoy, French post-impressionnist painter (d. 1943)
• 1905 –
  Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
• 1940 –
  John Mahoney, English actor
• 1970 –
  Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
• 1979 –
  Charlotte Hatherley, English guitarist (Ash)
• 1983 –
  Darren Sproles, American football player
• 1989 –
  Terrelle Pryor, American football player

Who died on June 20?

• 885 –
  Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (b. 841)
• 1176 –
  Mikhail of Vladimir, Russian prince
• 1776 –
  Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
• 1810 –
  Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish statesman (b. 1755)
• 1872 –
  Elie Frédéric Forey, French general (b. 1804)
• 1945 –
  Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
• 1952 –
  Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 –
  Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
• 1995 –
  Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher (b. 1911)
• 2005 –
  Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)