MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2011

Today is Monday, June 20, the 171st day of 2011. There are 194 days left in the year.

1402 ― Battle of Angora (Ankara); Tatars defeat Turkish Army

1791 ― King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution

1867 ― Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska

1871 ― Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford, Miss.

1939 ― Test flight of first rocket plane using liquid propellants

1943 ― National Congress of Racial Equality organizes

1967 ― Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services

1968 ― Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds

1969 ― 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear

1977 ― Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez