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June 20

American Eagle Day

1877 The world’s first pay Telephone installed in Hamilton Ontario by Alexander Graham Bell

1948 Toast of the Town aka The Ed Sullivan Show premiers

1963 The red telephone is established

1974 Chinatown opens in movie Theatres starring Jack Nicholson

1975 Jaws hits theatres directed by Steven Spielberg

1980 Blues Brothers opens in movie theatres starring Dan Aykroyd

1989 Faith No More release the album The Real Thing

1989 The Batman soundtrack with music by Prince.

1993 Chicago Bulls win the NBA championship over the Phoenix Suns

2003 Wikimedia is founded

2006 the first BLU-RAY disc is released

2010 Rey Mysterio Win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in fatal four way

2010 Despicable Me premieres at the Moscow Film Festival

Happy Birthday

1928 Martin Landau actor The Simpsons, Entourage, Ed Wood

1936 Billy Guy musician in the coasters



1942 Brian Wilson musical started the band The Beach Boys



1946 Bob Vila Handy Man TV host

1949 Lionel Richie singer



1953 John Goodman actor Roseanne, SNL, The Simpsons, The Big Lebowski

1957 Koko B. Ware WWE Superstar

1960 John Taylor in the band Duran Duran



1967 Nicole Kidman actress Eyes Wide Shut, To Die For

1968 Robert Rodriguez director Desperado, Four Rooms

1973 Chino Moreno in the band Deftones



1988 OLivia Hardt actress in Days of Our Lives & Hot Hot Los Angeles

1996 Claudia Lee Actress In the film Kick Ass & on the television show Party Crashers

Sources

http://www.onthisday.com/events/june/20

http://www.profightdb.com/cards/wwe/fatal-4-way-9547.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20

http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/june/

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