On June 20
On June 20, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451 CE).
On this day
On 20 June 451 CE, a coalition of the Western Roman Empire and the Visigoths, jointly led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I, confronted the Huns and their subject peoples under Attila on the…
Also this week in history (Jun 17 – Jun 23)
On 18 June 1815, near the village of Waterloo in present-day Belgium, Napoleon's bid to reclaim power during the Hundred Days came to a decisive end.
On 22 June 1941 Germany and its Axis allies launched Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union along a front of roughly 2,900 km with more than three million troops.
On 23 June 1757 a British East India Company force of about 3,000 under Robert Clive defeated the roughly 50,000-strong army of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, on the field of Plassey near Murshidabad.
On 23 June 2016 the United Kingdom held a referendum on its membership of the European Union, and voters chose to leave by 51.9% to 48.1%, with about 17.4 million votes for Leave against 16.1 million for Remain on a turnout of 72.2%.