Today is Friday, June 20, the 171st day of 2025 with 194 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Mars.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include writer Lillian Hellman in 1905; actor Errol Flynn in 1909; musician Chet Atkins in 1924; actor/Medal of Honor honoree Audie Murphy in 1925; actor Martin Landau in 1928; actor Olympia Dukakis in 1931; actor James Tolkan in 1931 (age 94); actor Danny Aiello in 1933; actor John Mahoney in 1940; Football Hall of Fame member Len Dawson in 1935; filmmaker Stephen Frears in 1941 (age 84); musician Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) in 1942; musician Anne Murray in 1945 (age 80); TV handyman Bob Vila in 1946 (age 79); Xanana Gusmão, prime minister of Timor-Leste, in 1946 (age 79); musician Lionel Richie in 1949 (age 76); actor John Goodman in 1952 (age 73); musician Michael Anthony (Van Halen) in 1954 (age 71); musician John Taylor (Duran Duran) in 1960 (age 65); musician Jerome Fontamillas (Switchfoot) in 1967 (age 58); musician Murphy Karges (Sugar Ray) in 1967 (age 58); musician Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss & Union Station) in 1967 (age 58); actor Nicole Kidman in 1967 (age 58); filmmaker Robert Rodriguez in 1968 (age 57); musician Twiggy Ramirez (Marilyn Manson/Perfect Circle) in 1971 (age 54); actor Josh Lucas in 1971 (age 54); musician Chino Moreno (Deftones) in 1973 (age 52); actor Tom Wlaschiha in 1973 (age 52); musician Amos Lee in 1977 (age 48); actor Tika Sumpter in 1980 (age 45); actor/musician Alisan Porter in 1981 (age 44); musician Grace Potter in 1983 (age 42); actor Mark Saul in 1985 (age 40); actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse in 1989 (age 36); actor Serayah McNeill in 1995 (age 30); actor Julian Hilliard in 2011 (age 14).
On this date in history:
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In 1893, a jury in Fall River, Mass., acquitted Lizzy Borden in the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
In 1898, the U.S. Navy seized Guam, the largest of the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, during the Spanish-American War. The people of Guam were granted U.S. citizenship in 1950.
In 1900, in response to widespread foreign encroachment upon China's national affairs, Chinese nationalists launched the so-called Boxer Rebellion in Beijing.
In 1945, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. approved the resettlement of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the United States. Von Braun would go on to lead the U.S. space program.
In 1963, the United States and Soviet Union agreed to establish a hot line communications link between Washington and Moscow.
In 1967, the American Independent Party was formed to back George Wallace of Alabama for president.
In 1977, oil began to flow through the $7.7 billion, 789-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
In 1988, armed forces commander Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy declared himself leader of Haiti in a military coup overthrowing President Leslie Manigat.
In 1991, the German Parliament voted to move its capital from Bonn to Berlin.
In 2004, Pakistan and India reached agreement on banning nuclear testing.
In 2009, insurgents, striking in a series of attacks as U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq as planned, set off a truck bomb near a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, killing 82 people and injuring 250.
In 2010, Juan Manuel Santos easily defeated former Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus to become Colombia's president.
In 2020, the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, reached a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic Circle.
In 2023, Romanian authorities charged self-styled lifestyle coach and social media personality Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, with rape and human trafficking. As of 2025, the brothers were expected to stand trial on the charges.
A thought for the day -- "I never liked being called the 'most-decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did -- guys who were killed." -- World War II veteran Audie Murphy
