Historical Events - June 20
1837 : Victoria became Queen of England.
1840 : Samuel Morse received the patent for the telegraph.
1887 : Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opened in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1985 : Mother Teresa was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the then President Ronald Reagan.
1990 : A magnitude 7.4 earthquake shook Iran, killing at least 50,000 people and injuring 150,000.
1990 : Asteroid Eureka was discovered.
2001 : Pervez Musharraf became President of Pakistan.
2003 : The Wikimedia Foundation was founded.
Famous birthdays – 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.
Death Anniversaries - 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.
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