On this day: June 20 (opens in new tab)

June 20: World Refugee Day Queen Victoria 1837 – Queen Victoria (pictured) acceded to the British throne, beginning a 63-year reign. 1921 – British Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army near Moydrum, Ireland. 1959 – The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, causing 22 fishing boats to capsize and killing 35 people. 1979 – Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia fo...