June 20 in history: • 1837 – Queen Victoria (pictured) acceded to the British throne, beginning a 63-year reign. → go there • 1921 – British Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army near Moydrum, Ireland. → go there • 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. → go there • 1979 – Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces. → go there • 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. → go there Born 1389: John of Lancaster Wiki link Born 1924: Fritz Koenig Wiki link Born 1929: Edith Windsor Wiki link Born 1941: Ulf Merbold Wiki link Pictured: Queen Victoria.