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.

Contents

1 Events

1.1 1600-1899
1.2 1900-1999
1.3 2000-2099

2 Births

2.1 1000-1899
2.2 1900-1999

3 Deaths

3.1 1300-1899
3.2 1900-1999
3.3 2000-2099

4 Holidays and Observances

5 External links

Events

1600-1899

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.
1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
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

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

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 fith book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series is published.
2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

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

1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 - King Edward III of England
1527 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (daimyo) (b. 1534)
1652 - Inigo Jones, architect (b. 1573)
1824 - Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (b. 1773)

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)