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June 20
1214 – The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1942 – 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.
1959 – A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1963 – The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1991 – The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor wbt (d. 1959)
1952 – Vikram Seth, Indian poet and writer wbt
1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress wbt
1971 – Josh Lucas, American actor wbt
1978 – Frank Lampard, English footballer wbt
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