Portal:United States/Anniversaries/June/June 20
- 1782 – Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States (original seal die pictured).
- 1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
- 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
- 1863 – West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
- 1963 – The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 2003 – The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Events
- 1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
- 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
- 1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam–propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, but most of the journey was made under sail.
- 1863 – West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
- 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father.
- 1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
- 1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.