Updated June 19, 2012, 2:28 pm
On June 20, 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.
On June 20, 1905, Lillian Hellman, the American playwright and screenwriter, was born. Following her death on June 30, 1984, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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1863 West Virginia became the 35th state. 1893 A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. 1943 Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit. 1948 The TV variety series “Toast of the Town” hosted by Ed Sullivan debuted on CBS. 1963 The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two superpowers. 1967 Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. (The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.) 1975 The movie “Jaws” was released. 1994 O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman. 1999 As the last of 40,000 Yugoslav troops left Kosovo, NATO declared a formal end to its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. 2001 Andrea Yates drowned her five children, who ranged in age from 6 months to 7 years, in the bathtub in her family’s home in Houston. 2002 The U.S. Supreme Court declared that executing mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel. 2007 Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers became the fifth major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs. 2009 Neda Agha Soltan, 27, was gunned down during election protests in Tehran. Current Birthdays
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Actress Nicole Kidman turns 45 years old today.
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Singer Lionel Richie turns 63 years old today.
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1931 Olympia Dukakis, Actress, turns 81 1931 Martin Landau, Actor, turns 81 1933 Danny Aiello, Actor, turns 79 1940 John Mahoney, Actor (“Frasier”), turns 72 1941 Stephen Frears, Director, turns 71 1942 Brian Wilson, Rock singer, songwriter (The Beach Boys), turns 70 1945 Anne Murray, Singer, turns 67 1946 Bob Vila, TV host (“This Old House”), turns 66 1948 Tina Sinatra, Producer, turns 64 1952 John Goodman, Actor, turns 60 1954 Michael Anthony, Rock musician (Van Halen), turns 58 1960 John Taylor, Rock musician (Duran Duran), turns 52 1971 Josh Lucas, Actor, turns 41 1986 Dreama Walker, Actress (“Don’t Trust the B—– in Apartment 23”), turns 26 1989 Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Actor (“Superbad”), turns 23
Historic Birthdays
Lillian Hellman 6/20/1905 – 6/30/1984 American playwright and screenwriter.Go to obituary »
57 Salvator Rosa 6/20/1615 – 3/15/1673
Italian Baroque painter and etcher92 Adam Ferguson 6/20/1723 – 2/22/1816
Scottish historian and philosopher32 Thomas Edward Bowdich 6/20/1791 – 1/10/1824
English traveler and scientific writer61 Jacques Offenbach 6/20/1819 – 10/5/1880
French composer72 Alexander Winton 6/20/1860 – 6/21/1932
Scottish-born American automobile manufacturer85 Sir Frederick Hopkins 6/20/1861 – 5/16/1947
English Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1929)44 Jean Moulin 6/20/1899 – 7/8/1943
French World War II Resistance hero50 Errol Flynn 6/20/1909 – 10/14/1959
American motion-picture actor65 Chester Arthur Burnett 6/20/1910 – 1/10/1976
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