Saturday, 20 June 2020

ON THIS DAY JUNE 20TH - JUST FOR FUN

1840 -Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

1975- "Jaws", based on the book by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider is released.

1969 - 200,000 attend Newport '69', then largest-ever pop concert in Northridge, California. Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear..

1756- Black Hole of Calcutta: 146 British soldiers, Anglo-Indian soldiers and Indian civilians are imprisoned in a small dungeon in Calcutta, India where most die from suffocation and heat exhaustion.


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