Public Holidays on June 20

• 🌍 Midsummer Day (Finland, Sweden)
• 🌍 General Manuel Belgrano Memorial Day (Argentina)
• 🌍 Juhannuspäivä (Finland)
• 🌍 Midsommardagen (Sweden)
• 🌍 Paso a la Inmortalidad del General Don Manuel Belgrano (Argentina)

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On This Day in History — June 20

• 2003 — The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
• 1994 — The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured.
• 1991 — German Bundestag votes to move seat of government to Berlin.
• 1990 — Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
• 1990 — 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.
• 1982 — The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.

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Notable Births on June 20

• 1999 — Yui Mizuno, Japanese singer
• 1996 — Sam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1994 — Leonard Williams, American football player
• 1993 — Sead Kolašinac, Bosnian footballer
• 1991 — Kalidou Koulibaly, Senegalese footballer
• 1991 — Rick ten Voorde, Dutch footballer

Notable Deaths on June 20

• 2017 — Prodigy, (Albert Johnson), American music artist (b. 1974)
• 2015 — Angelo Niculescu, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2015 — Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
• 2013 — Ingvar Rydell, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
• 2012 — LeRoy Neiman, American painter (b. 1921)
• 2012 — Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1919)

Public Holidays on June 21

• 🌍 Día Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (Chile)
• 🌍 Father's Day (Venezuela)
• 🌍 National Aboriginal Day (Canada)
• 🌍 National Day of Indigenous Peoples (Chile)

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On This Day in History — June 21

• 2012 — A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
• 2009 — Greenland assumes self-rule.
• 2006 — Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
• 2005 — Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been acquitted for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
• 2004 — SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• 2001 — A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.

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Notable Births on June 21

• 1997 — Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter
• 1997 — Derrius Guice, American football player
• 1994 — Başak Eraydın, Turkish tennis player
• 1991 — Gaël Kakuta, French footballer
• 1990 — Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player
• 1990 — Håvard Nordtveit, Norwegian footballer

Notable Deaths on June 21

• 2016 — Pierre Lalonde, Canadian television host and singer (b. 1941)
• 2015 — Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1964)
• 2015 — Veijo Meri, Finnish author and poet (b. 1928)
• 2015 — Remo Remotti, Italian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1924)
• 2015 — Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German soldier and politician (b. 1932)
• 2015 — Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (b. 1925)