World Refugee Day, Zoo Elephant Day and Wi-Fi Day are the most interesting events on June 20 at Athletistic.
In the Gregorian calendar, June 20 is the 171st day of 2023. There are 194 days left in the year.
- World Refugee Day.
- International day for the protection of elephants in zoos.
- World Wi-Fi Day.
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451 – a battle took place in the Catalaunian fields, as a result of which the advance of the Huns in Europe was stopped.
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1768 – Ukrainian haidamaks take Uman.
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1782 – The Great Seal of the United States is approved.
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1792 – French Revolution: popular uprising in Paris.
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1837 – Victoria I becomes Queen of Great Britain.
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1840 – Samuel Morse received a patent for the telegraph.
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1863 – the first bank in the United States was established (National Bank of Davenport of Iowa).
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1867 – US President Andrew Johnson announced the purchase of Alaska.
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1895 – The Kiel Canal opens, connecting the Baltic and North Seas.
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1939 – the first flight of a jet aircraft was made by a German experimental aircraft with a Heinkel He.176 rocket engine.
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1939 – the remaining Soviet director Vsevolod Meyerhold was arrested.
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2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded.
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1690 – Peter Kalnyshevsky, the last ataman of the Zaporizhzhya Sich.
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1819 – Jacques Offenbach, French composer (b.
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1834 – Alexander Lazarevsky, an outstanding Ukrainian historian, genealogist, source and publisher. A close acquaintance and one of the first biographers of the poet Taras Shevchenko.
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1843 – Fyodor Stravinsky, Ukrainian opera singer. Father of the greatest composer Igor Stravinsky.
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1861 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist, Nobel laureate
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1893 – Ivan Antipenko, Ukrainian playwright, feuilletonist.
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1913 – Lilienne Jackson Browne, American writer
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1920 – Petro Timoshenko, Ukrainian linguist.
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1939 – Vasily Vasilashko, Ukrainian poet.
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1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer
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1967 – Nicole Kidman, American actress
On this day, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Theodotus of Ancyra. He lived in the 3rd century, when the emperor Diocletian, known for his persecution of Christians, ruled. Theodotus continued to shelter in his house the believers who fled from the cruelty of the king, gave them food and clothing, and also visited the martyrs in the dungeons, performed the rites of Christian burial.
Subsequently, he was captured and forced to renounce Christ and glorify idols. But the saint refused, whereupon he was subjected to terrible torture, and then his head was cut off with a sword.
It is forbidden to work physically on this day. Do not swim in open water. Do not drink alcohol and do not slander.
- We looked at what day it was: warm weather meant a big harvest of rye, rain meant that the ears did not pour properly.
- The rainbow is dominated by red – wait for the wind.
- Bees sit on the walls of the hive – it will be hot.
- The sun’s rays are getting darker – expect thunderstorms.
- Spiders spread their web at night – the day will be clear and warm.
- Thunder rumbled loudly – to a prolonged bad weather.
June 20 name days are celebrated by: Alexander, Anna, Bogdan, Boris, Valentin, Vasily, Vladimir, Grigory, Maxim, Maria, Nikolai, Pavel, Peter and Taras.
Source: korrespondent
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