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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

June

20

Alberta almanac

On this day in Alberta

12 moments and Albertans connected to 20 June, spanning 1892 to 2024.

  • 10 born
  • 1 died
  • 1 founded
Month 6
  1. 2013

    The 2013 floods hit Calgary

    Calgary declared a state of emergency as the Bow and Elbow rivers surged; some 80,000 people were ordered from their homes in southern Alberta's costliest natural disaster to that point.

    Wikipedia
  1. 1892

    municipal police force for the City of Edmonton, Alberta

    Read on Wikipediasource data134 years ago today

Also on this date

  1. 1904

    Canadian geologist and first President of the Geological Association of Canada

    Read on Wikipediasource data122 years ago today

  2. 1943

    Canadian politician

    Read on Wikipediasource data83 years ago today

  3. 1953

    Alberta politician

    Read on Wikipediasource data73 years ago today

  4. 1972

    association football player

    Read on Wikipediasource data54 years ago today

  5. 1973

    American artist

    Read on Wikipediasource data53 years ago today

  6. 1985

    Canadian bicycle racer

    Read on Wikipediasource data41 years ago today

  7. 1986
    Mat RobinsonBorn

    Canadian ice hockey defenceman

    Read on Wikipediasource data40 years ago today

  8. 1993
    Colin SmithBorn

    Canadian ice hockey player

    Read on Wikipediasource data33 years ago today

  9. 1994
    Sage WatsonBorn

    Canadian athlete (1994-)

    Read on Wikipediasource data32 years ago today

  10. 2000

    Ukrainian association football player (born 2000)

    Read on Wikipediasource data26 years ago today

  11. 2024
    Dylon PowleyDied

    Canadian soccer player

    Read on Wikipediasource data2 years ago today

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Compiled from Wikidata, whose data is released under CC0. Every entry links its Wikipedia article so you can check it. Nothing here is written by AI — each line is the label, description and date Wikidata holds, in a fixed format. That also means the coverage is Wikidata's: it leans heavily towards people with Wikipedia articles, and towards hockey. Alberta history is much larger than this page, which is why most days have no recorded event to lead with and the page says so rather than filling the space. Where a day opens with a highlighted entry above the timeline, that is a curated item: written, sourced to the page it links, and approved before it appeared here.