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Events

• 1180 (846 years ago) First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
• 1956 (70 years ago) A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
• 1960 (66 years ago) The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
• 1963 (63 years ago) Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow.
• 1990 (36 years ago) The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
• 1991 (35 years ago) The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin.
• 1994 (32 years ago) The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured.

Births

• 1819 (207 years ago) Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (died 1880)
• 1909 (117 years ago) Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (died 1959)
• 1928 (98 years ago) Martin Landau, American actor and producer (died 2017)
• 1928 (98 years ago) Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician (died 2025)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Lionel Richie, American singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
• 1952 (74 years ago) John Goodman, American actor
• 1967 (59 years ago) Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
• 1978 (48 years ago) Frank Lampard, English footballer

Deaths

• 840 (1186 years ago) Louis the Pious, Carolingian emperor (born 778)
• 1597 (429 years ago) Willem Barentsz, Dutch cartographer and explorer (born 1550)
• 1837 (189 years ago) William IV of the United Kingdom,
• 1958 (68 years ago) Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
• 1966 (60 years ago) Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (born 1894)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (born 1911)
• 2005 (21 years ago) Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor and producer (born 1935)

All 337 events, births and deaths of June 20