WHAT HAPPENED ON 20. JUNE
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Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike. (20. June 1921)

World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France. (20. June 1940)

The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp. (20. June 1942)

The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days. (20. June 1943)

World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot". (20. June 1944)

Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses. (20. June 1944)

The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America. (20. June 1945)

Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut. (20. June 1948)

A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people. (20. June 1956)

A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35. (20. June 1959)

The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal). (20. June 1960)

The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. (20. June 1963)

The respected Holy Quran recitor Shiekh Mohamed Siddiq El-Minshawi passes away. (20. June 1969)

Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. (20. June 1972)

Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. (20. June 1973)

ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime. (20. June 1979)

The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. (20. June 1982)

Asteroid Eureka is discovered. (20. June 1990)

The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. (20. June 1991)

Andrea Yates, in an attempt to save her young children from Satan, drowns all five of them in a bathtub in Houston, Texas. (20. June 2001)