June 20
| 451 | Roman and barbarian warriors halt Attila's army at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France. | |
| 1397 | The Union of Kalmar unites Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch. | |
| 1756 | Nearly 150 British soldiers are imprisoned in the 'Black Hole' cell of Calcutta. Most die. | |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent. | |
| 1819 | The paddle-wheel steamship Savannah arrives in Liverpool, England, after a voyage of 27 days and 11 hours–the first steamship to successfully cross the Atlantic. | |
| 1837 | 18-year-old Victoria is crowned Queen of England. | |
| 1863 | President Abraham Lincoln admits West Virginia into the Union as the 35th state. | |
| 1898 | On the way to the Philippines to fight the Spanish, the U.S. Navy seizes the island of Guam. | |
| 1901 | Charlotte M. Manye of South Africa becomes the first native African to graduate from an American University. | |
| 1910 | Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaims martial law and arrests hundreds. | |
| 1920 | Race riots in Chicago, Illinois leave two dead and many wounded. | |
| 1923 | France announces it will seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying her war debts. | |
| 1941 | The U.S. Army Air Force is established, replacing the Army Air Corps. | |
| 1955 | The AFL and CIO agree to combine names for a merged group. | |
| 1963 | The United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a hot line between Washington and Moscow. | |
| 1964 | General William Westmoreland succeeds General Paul Harkins as head of the U.S. forces in Vietnam. | |
| 1967 | Boxing champion Muhammad Ali is convicted of refusing induction into the American armed services. | |
| 1972 | President Richard Nixon names General Creigton Abrams as Chief of Staff of the United States Army. | |
| 1999 | NATO declares an official end to its bombing campaign of Yugoslavia. |
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