Historical Events In June - 20

1763  On this day in history theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist  

1779  Battle of Stone Ferry on June - 20.  

1782  On this day in history congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol  

1782  Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol on June - 20.  

1787  Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States on June - 20.  

1787  Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 on June - 20.  

1789  Oath of the Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken on June - 20.  

1789  Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken on this day in history.  

1791  King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution on June - 20.  

1793  Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent on this day in history.  

1793  Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin on June - 20.  

1819  Savannah becomes first steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic) on June - 20.  

1819  On June - 20 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)  

1819  On June - 20 jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)  

1823  On this day in history jesse Lee Reno, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862  

1824  George E Street, British (?) architect on this day in history.  

1825  On June - 20 coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon  

1826  On June - 20 siam/England sign trade/peace treaty  

1833  On this day in history leon-J-F Bonnat, painter  

1833  On June - 20 philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44  

1837  On June - 20 england issues its first stamp, 1P Queen Victoria  

1837  Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 on this day in history.  

1837  On this day in history england issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria  

1837  On this day in history giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89  

1840  On June - 20 samuel Morse patents his telegraph  

1842  Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60 on June - 20.  

1846  Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67 on this day in history.  

1852  Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, minister of interior (1866..88) [or Jul 20] on this day in history.  

1855  Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin on June - 20.  

1858  On June - 20 medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)  

1861  On this day in history arthur Battelle Whiting, composer  

1862  Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated on this day in history.  

1863  On this day in history first bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)  

1863  West Virginia admitted as 35th US state on this day in history.  

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1005  On this day in history birth of ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)  

1389  On June - 20 birth of john, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)  

1566  Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden was born on June - 20.  

1583  Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652) was born on June - 20.  

1585  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer was born on June - 20.  

1615  On this day in history birth of salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/musician [or 7/21]  

1634  Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75) was born on this day in history.  

1642  George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology) was born on this day in history.  

0451  Death of Theodorid, King of the Visigoths on this day in history.  

0840  On this day in history louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies  

0885  Death of Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (b. 841) on this day in history.  

1585  Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52 on June - 20.  

1597  Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen & Bereneil), dies on June - 20.  

1649  On June - 20 maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies  

1668  Death of Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620) on June - 20.  

1751  On this day in history adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56