📜 This Day in History
June 20
1782The Congress of the Confederation adopted the Great Seal of the United States, used to authenticate documents issued by the U.S. federal government.- 1921Workers at the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in Madras, India, began a four-month strike.
- 1943World War II: The Royal Air Force began Operation Bellicose, a four-day shuttle-bombing mission that included raids on Germany and Italy and a refuelling and rearming stop in Algeria.
- 1960The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but dissolved into Mali and Senegal two months later.
- 1982The 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.
- 2019Iranian aircraft shot down an American drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
