About the day » Thursday June 20, 1957Calender converter

• Marc Ernest Alois Despeghel, Roeselare († 2010)
• Irene Haring, Westwoud, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Patricia Lynn Gattis, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Cobi Truijens († 2015)
• Gary Bruce Ezinga, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Patricia Marie Krekeler, Kentucky († 1957)
• Paulina Adriana Sonneveld, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2015)
• A.H.M. van de Veerdonk, Berlicum († 1989)
• Alexandra Johanna (Sandra) van der Ende, Maassluis, Nederland († 2007)
• Reina Alberta Reijnst († 2010)

• Bertus Riggeling (0), Velp
• Adrianus Hubertus van Erven (80), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Maria Simonis (73), Amsterdam
• Fennechien Klazina Stutvoet (51), Amsterdam
• alida Wilhelmina TIMMERS (66), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Looije (83), Ter Heijde, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Kornelia VAN DER BEEK (78), Eethen
• Anna* Catharina Elisabeth Berger (75), Emsdetten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Arie Cornelis van den Heuvel (79), Haaften
• Ferdinand Joseph Charles Boyen (49), Sint-Truiden, België

• 1953 » Raúl Ramírez, Mexican tennis player
• 1953 » Robert Crais, American author and screenwriter
• 1954 » Allan Lamb, South African-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1954 » Ilan Ramon, Israeli colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 2003)
• 1955 » E. Lynn Harris, American author († 2009)
• 1956 » Peter Reid, English footballer and manager
• 1956 » Sohn Suk-hee, South Korean newscaster
• 1958 » Kelly Johnson, English hard rock guitarist and songwriter († 2007)
• 1960 » John Taylor, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor
• 1960 » Philip M. Parker, American economist and author

• 1945 » Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. John
12. Paul
13. Dirk
14. Johan
15. Wilhelmus
16. Michael

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Yvonne
10. Margaretha
11. Hendrika
12. Petronella
13. Marianne
14. Jacoba
15. Ingrid
16. Linda

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
• February 22 » Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
• March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
• March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
• April 6 » Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
• October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
• October 14 » The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.

The temperature on June 20, 1957 was between 12.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.