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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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