Portal:United States/On this day/June 20
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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 so-called "red telephone" is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
