June 21
June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 193 days remaining.
June 21 is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, so is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere, and the shortest in the southern hemisphere.
Events
1600-1899
1900-1999
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister
- 1964 - Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Cheney 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 influencial 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 guily 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.
2000-2099
Births
1000-1899
- 1002 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
- 1639 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
- 1731 - Martha Washington, wife of first President of the United States, George Washington
- 1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, mathematician, physicist (d. 1840)
- 1736 - Enoch Poor, Brigadier General in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
- 1763 - Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, philosopher
- 1805 - Charles Jackson , physician, chemist, pioneer geologist and mineralogist
- 1811 - Carlo Matteucci, physicist
- 1823 - Jean Chacornac, astronomer (d. 1873)
- 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
- 1864 - Heinrich Wölfflin, art historian
- 1876 - William H. Keesom , physicist (pioneer in cryogenics)
- 1880 - Arnold Gesell, psychologist, pediatrician
- 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, architect (d. 1979)
- 1891 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
- 1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian
- 1893 - Alois Hába, composer
- 1896 - Charles B. Momsen, inventor
- 1898 - Donald C. Peattie, botanist, writer
1900-1999
- 1903 - Al Hirschfeld, cartoonist (d. 2003)
- 1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1964 (he refused to accept it) (d. 1980)
- 1912 - Mary McCarthy, writer (d. 1989)
- 1914 - Ralf Parland , writer
- 1914 - William Vickrey, economist, awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
- 1916 - Herbert Friedman , astronomer
- 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 - Judy Holliday, actress (d. 1965)
- 1921 - Jane Russell, actress
- 1925 - Maureen Stapleton, actress
- 1934 - Wulf Kristen , writer and recipient of the 1989 Heinrich Mann Prize
- 1935 - Françoise Sagan, writer
- 1939 - Ruben Berrios, politician
- 1942 - Henry Taylor, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet
- 1944 - Ray Davies of The Kinks
- 1946 - Brenda Holloway, musician
- 1948 - Ian McEwan, writer
- 1948 - Lionel Rose, first aboriginal boxer to win a world title (in 1968)
- 1948 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish fantasy writer
- 1950 - Anne Carson, poet
- 1951 - Nils Lofgren, musician
- 1953 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (twice), first female Muslim head of government
- 1955 - Tim Bray, computer programmer
- 1956 - Michel Platini, French football player
- 1964 - Yuri Kruppa , Chess International Grandmaster
- 1964 - Valeriy Neverov , Chess International Grandmaster
- 1964 - Doug Savant, actor (Melrose Place, Desperate Housewives)
- 1966 - Rudi Bakhtiar, journalist
- 1971 - Sunofone-J.R.Liendo , creator of "Red Dragon"chess variant
- 1973 - Juliette Lewis, actress
- 1981 - Brandon Flowers, singer/keyboardist (The Killers (band))
- 1982 - Prince William of Wales (son to Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife Diana)
- 1982 - Matthew Gargano , musician, mathematician
- 1983 - Nadia Yvonne Lopez Ayuso , Mexican singer (La Acedemia contestant)
Deaths
1300-1899
1900-1999
- 1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (b. 1844)
- 1914 - Bertha von Suttner, winner of 1905 Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
- 1934 - Thorne Smith, author ("Topper " books and others)
- 1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, astronomer (b. 1867)
- 1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, aviation pioneer
- 1964 - Andrew Goodman, civil rights activist
- 1964 - James Cheney , civil rights activist
- 1964 - Mickey Schwerner, civil rights activist
- 1969 - Maureen Connolly, tennis star
- 1970 - Sukarno, Indonesian President
- 1976 - Margaret Herrick, Librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences credited with naming the Oscar (b. 1902)
- 1980 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter
- 1985 - Tage Erlander, Swedish Prime Minister
- 1990 - Ross Munro , journalist, Canadian Press war correspondent, editor, publisher
- 1992 - Yoshiko Uchida , Japanese-American writer (b. 1921)
- 1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican trade union supremo (b. 1900)
2000-2099
Holidays and Observances
External links
June 20 - June 22 - May 21 - July 21 -- listing of all days
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