Historical Events for 20th June 2023

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1582 - Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
1855 - Commissioners appointed to lay out San Francisco streets west of Larkin
1909 - 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring)
1950 - Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1968 - Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squatting' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
1973 - Juan Perón returns from exile to Argentina after 18 years
1973 - SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
1981 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
1983 - New York Yankees 5-time MLB All Star outfielder Bobby Murcer retires
2020 - Historic dust cloud from the Sahara desert reaches the Caribbean, largest for half a century

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