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Significance of 20th June:


World Refugee Day is observed annually on 20 June to raise awareness about the struggles that refugees face around the world. World Refugee Day also marks a key moment for the public to show support for families forced to flee.


1756- Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, seized Calcutta from the British East India Company.

1840 - Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.

1877- Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

1982- The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, Israel.

1990- Asteroid Eureka is discovered.

1996- Space Shuttle Columbia carrying a crew of seven astronauts to conduct life science and microgravity research within the Spacelab module.



Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:

1861- Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins.

1869- Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar was an Indian businessman. He is the founder of the Kirloskar Group.

1909- Purnendu Dastidar was a Bengali politician, writer and lawyer.

1952- Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet. Seth's collections of poetry such as 'Mappings' and 'Beastly Tales' are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon.

1958- Smt. Droupadi Murmu is an Indian politician who is the 15th President of India since 2022. She was the 8th Governor of Jharkhand from May 2015 to July 2021.



Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:

1969 - Bishnu Prasad Rabha was an Indian cultural figure from Assam. He known for his contributions in the fields of music, dance, painting, literature as well as political activism. 

1999- Gautam Chattopadhyay was an Indian Bengali singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer.

2000- Basanta Choudhury was an Indian actor in Bengali and Hindi films. He is a former Sheriff of Kolkata.

2000- Chanchal Kumar Majumdar was an Indian Bengali physicist specializing in solid-state physics. He was the founding director of the Satyendranath Bose National Centre for Fundamental Sciences.

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