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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Refugee_Day" title="World Refugee Day">World Refugee Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837" title="1837">1837</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a></b> acceded to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Monarchy of the United Kingdom">British throne</a>, beginning a 63-year reign.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921" title="1921">1921</a> – British Army officer <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanton_Lambert" title="Thomas Stanton Lambert">Thomas Stanton Lambert</a></b> was assassinated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1919%E2%80%931922)" title="Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)">Irish Republican Army</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moydrum" title="Moydrum">Moydrum</a>, Ireland.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959" title="1959">1959</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extratropical_cyclone" title="Extratropical cyclone">extratropical</a> remnants of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane" title="Atlantic hurricane">Atlantic hurricane</a> reached the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_St._Lawrence" title="Gulf of St. Lawrence">Gulf of St. Lawrence</a> in Canada, causing <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Escuminac_disaster" title="1959 Escuminac disaster">22 fishing boats to capsize and killing 35 people</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stewart_(journalist)" title="Bill Stewart (journalist)">Bill Stewart</a></b>, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_(Nicaragua)" title="National Guard (Nicaragua)">Guardia</a></i> forces.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982" title="1982">1982</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Conference_on_the_Holocaust_and_Genocide" title="International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide">International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide</a></b>, the first major conference in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_studies" title="Genocide studies">genocide studies</a>, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide" title="Armenian genocide">Armenian genocide</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Lancaster,_Duke_of_Bedford" title="John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford">John of Lancaster</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1389); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Koenig" title="Fritz Koenig">Fritz Koenig</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1924); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Windsor" title="Edith Windsor">Edith Windsor</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1929); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf_Merbold" title="Ulf Merbold">Ulf Merbold</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1941)</p>
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