ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

June 20

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1 year ago… Johnson v Hunt for PM The Tory leadership contest sees Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, left, become the final two candidates for Conservative party leader and the next Prime Minister.

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15 years ago… First Love Island Jayne Middlemiss and former nightclub owner Fran Cosgrave are declared the winners of Celebrity Love Island, filmed in Fiji.

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24 years ago… TV murder Planning officer Harry Collinson is murdered in County Durham by Albert Dryden, as TV news cameras record a dispute about his bungalow built without planning permission.

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36 years ago… GCSES introduced The Government announces O-level and CSE qualifications are to be scrapped and replaced by new GCSE exams.

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45 years ago… Jaws movie unleashed Steven Spielberg’s thriller about a deadly Great White shark, starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss, is released.

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53 years ago… Muhammad Ali convicted The boxer, right, is convicted of dodging the Vietnam War draft. The conviction would be overturned in 1971.

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57 years ago… Cold War hotline In the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the US and Soviet Union agree to establish a special hotline to avert nuclear war.

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60 years ago… First woman newsreader Nan Winton becomes the first woman to read the national news on BBC television. She would die, aged 93, in 2019.

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71 years ago… Tennis shocker Gussie Moran causes a furore at Wimbledon by wearing a short skirt and lace-trimmed underwear.

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111 years ago… Errol Flynn born Hailing from Tasmania, the actor, left, would find fame with swashbuckling roles in movies like The Adventures Of Robin Hood.

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183 years ago… Victorian age begins Aged 18, Queen Victoria accedes to the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.

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264 years ago… Indian tragedy More than 100 British prisoners are put into a tiny cell after capture by the Bengali army. The dungeon would be dubbed the “Black Hole of Calcutta” with only a handful surviving the night.