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Events on June 20

• 1789 During the French Revolution, the Third Estate takes the Tennis Court Oath at the Palace of Versailles. The deputies ignore the king’s order to dissolve and pledge not to separate until a constitution has been adopted.
• 1840 Samuel F. B. Morse receives a patent from the United States Patent Office for the telegraph he invented.
• 1908 The Imperial Patent Office grants Melitta Bentz utility model protection for her invention of a coffee filtering system.
• 1919 Since the government members cannot reach an agreement on accepting or rejecting the Treaty of Versailles, Philipp Scheidemann resigns as German Reich Chancellor.
• 1939 The Heinkel He 176 makes its maiden flight as the first operational rocket-powered aircraft.
• 1948 The currency reform in the Western zones of occupied Germany deepens the Cold War. From the following day, the Deutsche Mark replaces the Reichsmark.
• 1974 The Permanent Representations of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic begin their work.
• 1975 The American horror film Jaws opens in American cinemas. It is considered the first blockbuster in film history and, due to its worldwide box office gross, one of the most commercially successful films of all time.
• 1976 At the European Football Championship in Yugoslavia, the German national team loses the final on penalties against the Czechoslovak national team on the night in Belgrade.
• 1977 Two months after submitting an application to emigrate, the actor and singer Manfred Krug leaves the German Democratic Republic.
• 1991 After a long and controversial debate, the German Bundestag decides to move the seat of government from Bonn to Berlin.
• 1995 The mineral oil company Royal Dutch Shell refrains from sinking the floating oil tanker Brent Spar in the North Sea.

Born on June 20

• 1868 Richard Riemerschmid, German architect and Jugendstil designer
• 1884 Johannes Heinrich Schultz, German neurologist
• 1911 Paul Pietsch, German racing driver and publisher
• 1913 Laure Wyss, Swiss journalist and writer
• 1940 Eugen Drewermann, German Catholic theologian, psychotherapist and writer
• 1941 Dieter Mann, German stage and screen actor
• 1950 Gudrun Landgrebe, German actress
• 1952 John Goodman, American comedian and actor
• 1961 Karin Enke, German speed skater
• 1970 Andrea Nahles, German politician and party official

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „20. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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