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 today is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere, and the shortest in the southern hemisphere.

Events

  • 1665 - First soldiers of Le_Régiment_de_Carignan-Salières arrive at Quebec 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 - Laura_Secord sets out to warn British forces of impending American attack at Queenston Ontario.
  • 1887 - Queen_Victoria's golden jubilee
  • 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 Winnepeg_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 - France surrenders to Germany.
  • 1940 - First successful west to east navigation of Northwest_Passage begins at Vancouver British_Columbia.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2000 - Section_28 repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

    Births

  • 356_BC - Alexander_the_Great
  • 1002 - Pope_Leo_IX
  • 1731 - Martha_Washington
  • 1839 - Machado_de_Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
  • 1884 - Claude_Auchinleck, British Field Marshal (d. 1981)
  • 1887 - Norman_L._Bowen, petrologist (d. 1956)
  • 1891 - Pier_Luigi_Nervi, architect (d. 1979)
  • 1903 - Al_Hirschfeld, cartoonist
  • 1905 - Jean-Paul_Sartre, philosopher and playwright, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_literature 1964 (d. 1980)
  • 1912 - Mary_McCarthy, writer (d. 1989)
  • 1919 - Gower_Champion, dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
  • 1921 - Judy_Holliday, actress (d. 1965)
  • 1921 - Jane_Russell, actress
  • 1925 - Maureen_Stapleton, actress
  • 1934 - Wulf_Kristen, writer and recipient of the Heinrich_Mann_Prize 1989
  • 1935 - Francoise_Sagan, writer
  • 1939 - Ruben_Berrios, politician
  • 1944 - Ray_Davies of The_Kinks
  • 1951 - Nils_Lofgren, musician
  • 1956 - Michel_Platini, French football player
  • 1973 - Juliette_Lewis, actress
  • 1982 - Prince_William_of_Wales (son to Charles,_Prince_of_Wales and his wife Diana)

    Deaths

  • 1377 - King Edward_III of England
  • 1527 - Niccolo_Machiavelli, historian and political author, age 53
  • 1582 - Oda_Nobunaga, Japanese warlord
  • 1652 - Inigo_Jones, architect
  • 1824 - Étienne_Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie_française (b. 1773)
  • 1908 - Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
  • 1934 - Thorne_Smith, author ("Topper_books" books and others)
  • 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
  • 1990 - Ross_Munro, journalist, Canadian_Press war correspondent, editor, publisher
  • 2001 - Carroll O'Connor, actor, age 76
  • 2001 - John_Lee_Hooker, blues musician, age 83

    Holidays and Observances

  • Summer_solstice (Northern_hemisphere) and Winter_solstice (Southern_hemisphere)
  • National_Aboriginal_Day in Canada (starting in 1996)
  • Midsummer - Neopagan festival. ---- June_20 - June_22 - May_21 - July_21 -- listing of all days
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