June 21
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June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- 1732 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
- 1736 – Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780)
- 1774 – Daniel D. Tompkins, entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States (d. 1825)
- 1811 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian composer (d. 1868)
- 1823 – Jean Chacornac, astronomer (d. 1873)
- 1826 – Georg von Neumayer, German scientist and polar explorer (d. 1909)
- 1839 – Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
- 1862 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince, administrator and historian (d. 1943)
- 1863 – Albert Sauveur, metallurgist (one of the founders of physical metallurgy)
- 1863 – Max Wolf, astronomer (d. 1932)
- 1870 – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
- 1883 – Lluís Companys i Jover, President of Catalonia (d. 1940)
- 1884 – Claude Auchinleck, British Field Marshal (d. 1981)
- 1887 – Norman L. Bowen, petrologist (d. 1956)
- 1889 – Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
- 1891 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (d. 1979)
- 1891 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
- 1892 – Reinhold Niebuhr, German-American Protestant theologian (d. 1971)
- 1893 – Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
- 1896 – Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
- 1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
- 1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964 (he decided not to accept it) (d. 1980)
- 1911 – Ralph Wendell Burhoe, theologian and scientist, first American to win the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
- 1912 – Mary McCarthy, writer (d. 1989)
- 1914 – William Vickrey, economist, awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
- 1919 – Gower Champion, dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
- 1919 – Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Vladimir Simagin, Chess International Grandmaster & Master, International Correspondence Chess Master, trainer
- 1921 – Helmut Heissenbüttel, German avant-garde novelist and poet (d. 1996)
- 1921 – Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1921 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
- 1927 – Carl Stokes, American politician, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1996)
- 1934 – Wulf Kristen, German writer and recipient of the 1989 Heinrich Mann Prize
- 1935 – Françoise Sagan, writer
- 1939 – Ruben Berrios, politician
- 1943 – Salomé, Spanish singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner
- 1944 – Ray Davies, English musician, of The Kinks
- 1946 – Brenda Holloway, American musician
- 1947 – Meredith Baxter, actress
- 1947 – Shirin Ebadi, Iranian jurist, activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1948 – Ian McEwan, British writer
- 1948 – Lionel Rose, first aboriginal boxer to win a world title (in 1968) (d. 2011)
- 1948 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish fantasy writer
- 1950 – Anne Carson, poet
- 1950 – Joey Kramer, American musician (Aerosmith)
- 1950 – Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer
- 1951 – Nils Lofgren, American musician
- 1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (twice), first female Muslim head of government (d. 2007)
- 1954 – Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
- 1955 – Tim Bray, computer programmer
- 1955 – Michel Platini, French footballer
- 1959 – Marcella Detroit, Singer, Musician & Song-writer (Shakespear's Sister)
- 1962 – Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
- 1964 – David Morrissey, British actor
- 1964 – Doug Savant, American actor (Melrose Place, Desperate Housewives)
- 1966 – Rudi Bakhtiar, journalist
- 1968 – Chris Gueffroy, last person to be shot at the Berlin Wall (d. 1989)
- 1973 – Juliette Lewis, American actress
- 1976 – Rene Aufhauser, Austrian footballer
- 1976 – Miroslav Karhan, Slovakian footballer
- 1979 – Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer
- 1979 – Chris Pratt, American actor
- 1981 – Brandon Flowers, American singer/keyboardist (The Killers (band))
- 1982 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second-in-line to the British throne
- 1985 – Kris Allen, American singer/American Idol Winner
- 1987 – Sebastian Proedl, Austrian footballer
- 1997 – Rebecca Black, American pop singer, became famous on YouTube
- 2001 – Aleksandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player
Deaths [change]
- 1305 – Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
- 1377 – King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
- 1547 – Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian political philosopher (b. 1469)
- 1582 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese shogun (b. 1534)
- 1652 – Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
- 1876 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican President and military figure (b. 1794)
- 1908 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
- 1914 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist and first female winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
- 1917 – Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountain climber (b. 1856)
- 1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist (b. 1874)
- 1964 – James Chaney, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1943)
- 1964 – Andrew Goodman, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1943)
- 1964 – Michael Schwerner, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1939)
- 1969 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
- 1970 – Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
- 1985 – Tage Erlander, Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1901)
- 1992 – Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
- 2000 – Alan Hovhanness, American composer (b. 1911)
- 2003 – Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Kermit Love, American puppeteer (b. 1916)
- 2010 – Stanley Lucas, British supercentenarian (b. 1900)
- 2011 – Maria Gomes Valentim, Brazilian supercentenarian (b. 1896)
Events [change]
- 524 – Battle of Vezerone: Burgundy triumphs over the French.
- 1665 – First soldiers of Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories.
- 1734 – In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
- 1749 – Halifax Nova Scotia founded.
- 1767 – English captain Samuel Wallis reaches the island of Tahiti.
- 1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
- 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill
- 1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria
- 1813 – Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of impending American attack at Queenston Ontario.
- 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1859 – Franco-Austrian War: Battle of Solférino is fought. Witnessed by Henri Dunant, the results were the Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross.
- 1864 – Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
- 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants who were labour activists, are hanged in the Carbon County, Pennsylvania Prison.
- 1887 – Queen Victoria's golden jubilee
- 1898 – Guam becomes U.S. Territory.
- 1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- 1919 – Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during Winnipeg General Strike.
- 1919 – Admiral Ludvig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War.
- 1939 – The New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement.
- 1940 – World War II: France surrenders to Germany.
- 1940 – First successful west to east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to German forces.
- 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against USA mainland.
- 1945 – World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends.
- 1947 – A Seaman named Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island. The next morning Dahl reported the first modern MIB encounter.
- 1957 – Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister
- 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1965 – Folk rock band The Byrds release their highly influential debut album Mr. Tambourine Man.
- 1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.
- 1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.
- 1982 – Fête de la Musique street music festival inaugurated in France by Jack Lang.
- 1989 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson that flag burning is protected speech under the United States Constitution.
- 1998 – French police officer Daniel Nivel is beaten by German hooligans at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He survives the attack, but is left permanently brain damaged.
- 2000 – Section 28 repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
- 2003 – Deputy Justice Fazel Ahmed Manawi of the Afghan Supreme Court announces that Aftab editor Sayed Madawi and his deputy Ali Payam Sestani will be tried for "libelling Islam"
- 2003 – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series is published.
- 2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- 2009 – Greenland is allowed to make more decisions independently from Denmark.
Observances [change]
- Summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, day with the most daylight hours
- Winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, day with the fewest daylight hours
- National Aboriginal Day (Canada)
- National Day (Greenland)
- World Humanist Day
- Statehood Day (New Hampshire)
