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June 20
:
World Refugee Day
Queen Victoria
1837
–
Queen Victoria
(pictured)
acceded to the
British throne
, beginning a 63-year reign.
1921
– British Army officer
Thomas Stanton Lambert
was assassinated by the
Irish Republican Army
near
Moydrum
, Ireland.
1959
– The
extratropical
remnants of an
Atlantic hurricane
reached the
Gulf of St. Lawrence
in Canada, causing
22 fishing boats to capsize and killing 35 people
.
1979
–
Bill Stewart
, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan
Guardia
forces.
1982
– The
International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide
, the first major conference in
genocide studies
, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the
Armenian genocide
.
John of Lancaster
(
b.
1389)
Fritz Koenig
(
b.
1924)
Edith Windsor
(
b.
1929)
Ulf Merbold
(
b.
1941)
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