How Many Days Until June 20?

This day in history: June 20

1. 1960

   The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but dissolved into Mali and Senegal two months later.

2. 1975

   Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released; it became a summer blockbuster and the first film to earn $100 million in U.S. theatrical rentals.

3. 1979

   Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces.

4. 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.

5. 1994

   A bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, left at least 25 dead and more than 70 injured.

6. 2009

   Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead in Tehran during the presidential election protests; footage of her death was widely distributed over the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".

7. 2019

   Iranian aircraft shot down an American drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

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