21 Juin

The 21st o Juin is the 172nt day o the year (173rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 193 days ti come.

Events

1788: Banner New Hampshire

1970: The Brazil team at the FIFA Warld Cup

2009: Banner o Greenland

• 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan o the Mongols an Wuzong o the Yuan.
• 1377 – Richard II o Ingland becomes King.
• 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is foondit.
• 1788 – New Hampshire becomes the 9t State tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
• 1898 – The Unitit States takes the Paceefic island o Guam frae Spain.
• 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Cheenae declares war on the Unitit States, Unitit Kinrick, Germany, Fraunce an Japan.
• 1919 – At Scapa Flow in Orkney, Germany scuttles its warships.
• 1945 – Warld War II: The Battle o Okinawa ends.
• 1963 – Pape Paul VI is electit.
• 1970 – Brazil wins the FIFA Warld Cup for the third time, defeatin Italy 4-1 in the feenal.
• 1990 – A yirdquauk in Iran kills ower 7,000 fowk.
• 1997 – In the Unitit States, the WNBA (Weemen's Naitional Basketbaw Association) haulds its first gemmes.
• 1998 – At the 1998 FIFA Warld Cup, Iran defeats the Unitit States 2-1 in a group-stage gemme.
• 2000 – Scotland repeals Section 28, a law which banned "promotin" homosexuality (Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act)
• 2003 – The novel Harry Potter an the Order o the Phoenix, bi J. K. Rowling, is released.
• 2006 – Pluto's twa newly-discovered muins are namit Nix an Hydra.
• 2009 – Greenland gets increased autonomy frae Denmark.
• 2018 – New Zealand prime meenister Jacinda Ardern becomes the seicont electit poleetical leader tae gie birth while in affice.
• 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Spain lifts its State o Emergency an permits traivel frae ither European kintras.

Births

Jean-Paul Sartre

Prince William, Yerl o Strathearn

• 1002 – Pape Leo IX (d. 1054)
• 1791 – Robert Napier, Scots ingineer (d. 1876)
• 1813 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Scots lawyer an poet (d. 1865)
• 1892 – Alexander Watt, Scots botanist (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher an writer (d. 1980)
• 1921 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Judy Holliday, American comedienne, actress an sangster (d. 1965)
• 1930 – Gerald Kaufman, Inglis politeecian (d. 2017)
• 1944 – Tony Scott, Inglis film director (d. 2012)
• 1946 – Kate Hoey, Breetish politeecian
• 1946 – Malcolm Rifkind, Scots politeecian
• 1947 – Shirin Ebadi, Iranian activist
• 1948 – Ian McEwan, Inglis writer
• 1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politeecian, first female Prime meenister o Pakistan (d. 2007)
• 1955 – Michel Platini, French fitbawer an offeecial
• 1959 – Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi cleric (d. 2016)
• 1961 – Joko Widodo, Preses o Indonesie
• 1967 – Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai politeecian, umwhile Prime meenister o Thailand
• 1973 – Zuzana Caputova, Preses o Slovakie
• 1979 – Chris Pratt, American actor
• 1982 – Prince William, Yerl o Strathearn
• 1983 – Nadia Lopez, Mexican sangster
• 1983 – Edward Snowden, American whistleblower
• 1985 – Lana Del Rey, American sangster-sangwriter
• 1992 – Carly Booth, Scots gowfer

Daiths

• 1377 – King Edward III o Ingland (b. 1312)
• 1527 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer (b. 1469)
• 1582 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese daimyo (b. 1534)
• 1652 – Inigo Jones, Inglis airchitect (b. 1573)
• 1914 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrick activist (b. 1843)
• 1948 – D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scots fitbawer an cricketer (b. 1860)
• 1957 – Johannes Stark, German pheesicist (b. 1874)
• 1963 – Tully Craig, Scots fitbawer (b. 1895)
• 1970 – Sukarno, Indonesie politeecian, 1st Preses o Indonesie (b. 1901)
• 2018 – Charles Krauthammer, American poleetical commentator, columnist an writer (b. 1950)
• 2019 – Demetris Christofias, 6t Preses o Cyprus (b. 1946)

Halidays

Simmer solstice sunrise at Stonehenge, Ingland.

• Simmer Solstice - Langest Day (Northren Hemisphere)
• Winter Solstice - Shortest Day (Soothren Hemisphere)
• Naitional Day o Greenland
• Warld Humanist Day
• Statehood Day (New Hampshire)