June 20 is Ice Cream Soda Day
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
In 451 Battle of the Catalaunian Plains: Roman and Visigoths forces defeated Attila the Hun in northeast France.
1782 – 
The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States in 1782.
1787- Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention of 1787 to call the government the “United States”.
1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath on June 20, 1789.
1819 The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrived at Liverpool, England. It was the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey was made under sail.
1837 Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne following the death of her uncle King William IV on this date in 1837. She was 18 years old. She ruled for 63 years till 1901.
Samuel Morse received the patent for the telegraph in 1840.
West Virginia Admission Day on June 20, 1863 as the thirty-fifth state.
- Capital: Charleston
- Nickname: Mountain State
- Bird: Cardinal
- Flower: Rhododendron
- Tree: Sugar Maple
- Motto: Mountaineers are always
See our page for West Virginia for other interesting facts and trivia about West Virginia.
1877 Alexander Graham Bell installed the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
On June 20, 1945, the United States Secretary of State, Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr., approved the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, made its television debut in 1948.
The so-called “red telephone” was established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963.
In 1975 the movie “Jaws”, based on the book by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider was released.