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1837, 20th June: Victoria became Queen of England.
1840, 20th June: Samuel Morse received the patent for the telegraph.
1887, 20th June: Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opened in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1985, 20th June: Mother Teresa was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the then President Ronald Reagan.
1990, 20th June: A magnitude 7.4 earthquake shook Iran, killing at least 50,000 people and injuring 150,000.
1990, 20th June: Asteroid Eureka was discovered.
2001, 20th June: Pervez Musharraf became President of Pakistan.
2003, 20th June: The Wikimedia Foundation was founded.
On this Day Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on June 20.
1869: Laxmanrao Kirloskar, an Indian businessman.
1915: Terence Young, a British film director, and screenwriter.
1939: Ramakant Desai, former Indian cricketer.
1952: Vikram Seth, an Indian novelist, and poet.
On this Day Death Anniversaries of famous people on June 20.
1668: Heinrich Roth, a missionary and pioneering Sanskrit scholar.
1837: William IV, King of the United Kingdom.
1917: James Mason Crafts, an American chemist.
1987: Salim Ali, an Indian ornithologist and naturalist.
What happened in India on 20 June
20-June-712
Muhammad of Bin Quasim (Kasim), Arabs, attacked on Sindh and captured it. Muhammad defeated and killed King Dahir, Hindu king, at Rawar.
20-June-1574
Akbar himself left Agra.
20-June-1756
A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the “Black Hole of Calcutta.” Most of them died here.
20-June-1858
Gwalior fort was captured by British troops and the first Indian Sepoy Mutiny officially came to an end.
20-June-1869
Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great industrialist, social reformer, patriot and founder of Kirloskar Industry, was born at Belgaum.
20-June-1873
Young Men Christian Association of India was established in Calcutta.
20-June-1897
Ratnakant Barkakti, famous Assamia poet, was born.
20-June-1911
Dattatray Purushottam Karmarkar, veteran freedom fighter and former cabinet minister, died.
20-June-1916
Sreemati Nathibai Damodher Thackersey (SNDT) Indian Women’ s University, first women’s and the fifth Indian University, was established in Pune by D.K. Karve.
20-June-1918
K.K. Singh, politician and social worker, was born at Agra.
20-June-1921
Tilak University was established.
20-June-1939
Ramakant Bhikaji Desai, cricketer (effective pace bowler for India in the 60s), was born in Bombay.
20-June-1946
Gandhiji attends Working Committee meeting from 20-21 June.
20-June-1946
Kashmir authorities arrest President-elect Nehru for refusing to obey an order banning him from the state.
20-June-1948
Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
20-June-1957
Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died.
20-June-1972
Paras Laxmikant Mhambrey, great Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996), was born in Bombay.
20-June-1979
Renedy Singh, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Manipur.
20-June-1985
The Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian decoration, was presented to Mother Teresa by President Ronald Reagan.
20-June-1987
Dr. Salim Ali, internationally renowned expert of birds, died at Bombay.
20-June-1992
CPM decides to back Dr. Sharma.
20-June-1992
Carnatic musician Maharajapuram Santhanam died in a car accident in Villupuram in Tamil Nadu.
20-June-1992
The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate.
20-June-1993
Harshad Mehta’s senior counsel Ram Jethmalani asks JPC to summon the PM and allow cross-examination.
20-June-1994
Anti-Pakistan slogans rent the air in Jammu & Kashmir against the killing of Quazi Nissar Ahmed, Mirwaiz of South Kashmir and a famous religious Kashmiri leader who was gunned down by Pak-aided terrorists.
20-June-1995
B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).
20-June-1995
Mayavati Government wins vote of confidence.
20-June-1996
Govt. of India declares at Geneva conference on ‘Global Ban On Nuclear Testing’ that it won’t sign the CTBT.
20-June-1997
Basu Bhattacharya (65), film-maker, died in Mumbai.
20-June-1997
Second round of Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan starts in Islamabad.