It happened on this day, June 20
events:
451 – The “Battle of the Catalan Plains” takes place between Roman forces led by Flavius Aetius and the Huns led by Attila.
1214 – The University of Oxford is founded in the United Kingdom.
1544 – Hassan Pasha bin Khair al-Din Barbaros arrives in Algeria as governor.
1605 – Tsar Fyodor II of Russia is assassinated after only three months as tsar.
1800 – French authorities close the Al-Azhar Mosque following the assassination of General Kléber by Suleiman Al-Halabi, and the mosque remains closed until the French leave Egypt.
1837 – Queen Victoria takes power over the United Kingdom.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell creates the world's first telephone network in Hamilton, Canada.
1930 – Iraqi Foreign Minister Nouri al-Saeed signs a 25-year alliance treaty with British political delegate.
1944 – The Battle of the Philippine Sea ends in a decisive victory for the United States Navy in World War II.
1960 – Declaration of independence of Mali and Senegal.
1963 – The United States and the Soviet Union were connected by a telephone line during the Cold War.
1991 – Berlin is chosen as the capital of unified Germany after a parliamentary vote with the result being 336 votes for and 321 votes against.
1994 – A bomb attack took place at the Imam Ali Reza shrine in the Iranian city of Mashhad, killing 25 visitors and injuring hundreds.
2001 – Pervez Musharraf is elected president of Pakistan.
2003 – Foundation of the Wikimedia Foundation.
2009 – A suicide bomber blew himself up at Khomeini's tomb, killing himself and injuring two visitors, following unrest following Iran's presidential elections.
2010 – Iran carries out the death sentence on the leader of the Jundallah movement, Abdul Malik Rigi, for his involvement in several armed operations in the Sistan-Baluchistan province.
✴️ Presidential elections are taking place in Poland to elect a successor to President Lech Kaczynski, who died following his plane crash on April 10. None of the candidates managed to obtain a percentage of votes above 50%, as the interim head of state, Bronislaw Komorowski, obtained a percentage of 41.22% of the votes, compared to 36.74% of the votes for Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of the former president, it was decided to organize a second round on July 4.
2012 – Kuwait Constitutional Court invalidates National Assembly elections and overturns decision to dissolve the Assembly
2009, which occurred last December and his powers were restored.
2015 – WikiLeaks publishes 60,000 Saudi diplomatic cables.
2019 – Iranian Revolutionary Guards shoot down a US military reconnaissance drone in the Strait of Hormuz region. The American army describes the shooting down of the plane as “unjustified” and the American administration announces that it is studying ways to respond.
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Births:
235 BC – Scipio Africanus, Roman consul and commander.
1005 – Al-Zahir Izzaz Din Allah, seventh Fatimid caliph and seventeenth imam of the Ismaili Shiites.
1469 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of the Duchy of Milan.
1566 – Siismund Vasa, king of Poland.
1861 – Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1929.
1866 – Ninomiya Chuhachi, Japanese inventor.
1926 – Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician.
1928 – Jean-Marie Le Pen, French politician.
1934 – Rosanna Podesta, Italian actress.
1940 – Muhammad Hamza, Egyptian poet.
(1945–Ahmed Badegyptian actor
1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer.
1950 – Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi Prime Minister.
1952 – John Goodman, American actor.
1954 – Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut.
1956 – Ahmed Al-Mulaifi, Kuwaiti jurist and politician.
** Rabie Shehab, Jordanian actor.
** Peter Reid, English footballer and manager.
1961 – Sahar Rami, Egyptian actress.
1963 – Hiroshi Osaka, Japanese animation artist.
1966 – Emad Nassef, Egyptian journalist and writer.
1967 – Nicole Kidman, Australian actress.
1969 – Malvay Washington, American tennis player. Malika Mostadraf, Moroccan novelist.
1970 – Rashid bin El Hassan, son of Hassan II, king of Morocco.
** Andrea Nahles, German politician.
1975 – Daniil Zitka, Czech footballer.
1976 – Giuliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer.
1978 – Frank Lampard, English footballer.
1980 – Franco Simeoli, Italian footballer.
1982 – Alexei Berezutsky, Russian footballer. Vassili Prijevetsky, Russian footballer.
1986 – Adel Hammoud, Kuwaiti footballer.
2000 – Muhannad Ali, Iraqi footballer.
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Death:
1800 – Abraham Gotthilf Kistner, German poet and mathematician.
1837 – William IV, King of the United Kingdom.
1879 – George Stephen, Australian lawyer.
1920 – Issa bin Akkas, Maliki jurist and Saudi judge.
1947 – Saadallah Al-Jabri, former Syrian Prime Minister.
1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1950.
1975 – Mikhail Yegorov, Soviet soldier during World War II.
1985 – Haqqi Al-Shibli, Iraqi artist.
1969 – Sheikh Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi.
1976 – Sasson Samih, Iraqi politician.
1995 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher.
2001 – Hussein Muhammad Taqi Bahr al-Ulum, Shia Muslim scholar and Iraqi poet.
2004 – Munir Al-Ajlani, Syrian politician and jurist.
2005 – Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.
2007 – Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet.
** Fatima Badawi, Syrian poet and playwright.
2008 – Mohammed Al Janahi, Emirati actor.
2010 – Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer.
** Abdul Malik Rigi, leader of the Jundallah movement.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ World Refugee Day.
⬅️ Flag Day in Argentina.
⬅️ Father's Day in UK, USA and Canada.
