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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/1782" title="1782">1782</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Congress of the Confederation</a> adopted the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States" title="Great Seal of the United States">Great Seal of the United States</a></b>, used to authenticate documents issued by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">U.S. federal government</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900" title="1900">1900</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion" title="Boxer Rebellion">Boxer Rebellion</a>: The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_China_before_1911" title="Military history of China before 1911">Imperial Chinese Army</a> began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_International_Legations" title="Siege of the International Legations">a 55-day siege</a></b> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Legation_Quarter" title="Peking Legation Quarter">Legation Quarter</a> in Peking.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bellicose" title="Operation Bellicose">Operation Bellicose</a></b>, a four-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_bombing" title="Shuttle bombing">shuttle-bombing</a> mission that included raids on Germany and Italy and a refuelling and rearming stop in Algeria.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a>'s film <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)" title="Jaws (film)">Jaws</a></b></i> was released; it became a summer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(entertainment)" title="Blockbuster (entertainment)">blockbuster</a> and the first film to earn $100 million in U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_office#Distributor_rentals" title="Box office">theatrical rentals</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019" title="2019">2019</a> – Iranian aircraft <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Iranian_shoot-down_of_American_drone" title="2019 Iranian shoot-down of American drone">shot down an American drone</a></b> over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz" title="Strait of Hormuz">Strait of Hormuz</a> amid <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations#2019%E2%80%932020_escalation_in_tensions" title="Iran–United States relations">heightened tensions between the two countries</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_III_Vasa" title="Sigismund III Vasa">Sigismund III Vasa</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1566); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_R._Calvert" title="Mary R. Calvert">Mary R. Calvert</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1884); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_M%C3%BChe" title="Ulrich Mühe">Ulrich Mühe</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1953); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanchal_Kumar_Majumdar" title="Chanchal Kumar Majumdar">Chanchal Kumar Majumdar</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2000)</p>
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