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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 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 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 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 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, philosopher1805 - Charles Jackson, physician, chemist, pioneer geologist and mineralogist1811 - Carlo Matteucci , physicist1823 - 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 1876 - William H. Keesom, physicist (pioneer in cryogenics)1880 - Arnold Gesell , psychologist, pediatrician1883 - 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 theologian1896 - Charles B. Momsen , inventor1898 - 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 - William Vickrey , economist, awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1916 - Herbert Friedman, astronomer1919 - 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 , actress1934 - Wulf Kristen, writer and recipient of the 1989 Heinrich Mann Prize 1935 - Françoise Sagan , writer1939 - Ruben Berrios , politician1942 - Henry Taylor, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet1944 - Ray Davies of The Kinks 1946 - Brenda Holloway , musician1948 - Ian McEwan , writer1948 - Lionel Rose , first aboriginal boxer to win a world title (in 1968 )1948 - Andrzej Sapkowski , Polish fantasy writer 1950 - Anne Carson , poet1951 - Nils Lofgren , musician1953 - Benazir Bhutto , Prime Minister of Pakistan (twice), first female Muslim head of government1956 - Michel Platini , French football player1964 - Yuri Kruppa, Chess International Grandmaster1964 - Valeriy Neverov, Chess International Grandmaster 1964 - Doug Savant , actor (Melrose Place Desperate Housewives 1966 - Rudi Bakhtiar , journalist1971 - Sunofone-J.R.Liendo, creator of "Red Dragon"chess variant1973 - Juliette Lewis , actress1982 - Prince William of Wales (son to Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife Diana )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 pioneer1964 - Andrew Goodman , civil rights activist1964 - James Cheney, civil rights activist 1964 - Mickey Schwerner , civil rights activist 1969 - Maureen Connolly , tennis star1970 - Sukarno , Indonesian President1976 - 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 songwriter1985 - Tage Erlander , Swedish Prime Minister1990 - Ross Munro, journalist, Canadian Press war correspondent, editor, publisher
2000-2099
Holidays and Observances June 20 - June 22 - May 21 - July 21 -- listing of all days
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Scaled.com SpaceShipOne - Historic Space Launch Attempt Scheduled for June 21 (974 words)
June 02 2004 , Mojave, CA: A privately-developed rocket plane will launch into history on June 21 on a mission to become the world’s first commercial manned space vehicle. The pilot (to be announced at a later date) of the up-coming June sub-orbital space flight will become the first person to earn astronaut wings in a non-government sponsored vehicle, and the first private civilian to fly a spaceship out of the atmosphere. The June flight will be flown solo, but SpaceShipOne is equipped with three seats and is designed for missions that include pilot and two passengers.
June 21 (859 words)
June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap year s) 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. June 20 - June 22 - May 21 - July 21 -- listing of all days
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