UN
Day
International
Day of Yoga
International
Day of the Celebration of the Solstice
Events
of the day
National
Epilepsy Day (India)
World
Music Day
217
BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius,
are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at
the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
524 – Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats
the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan
of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
1529 – French forces were driven out of
northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of
Landriano during the War of the League of
Cognac.
1582 – Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga is forced
to commit suicide in Honnō-ji, Kyoto.
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on
the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence
of the Battle of White Mountain.
1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave
known by the French name of Marie-Joseph
Angélique is put to death, having been convicted
of setting the fire that destroyed much
of the city.
1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King
and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts
General Court.
1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution
of the United States and is admitted as
the 9th state in the United States.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his
immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes
during the French Revolution.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British
Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle
of Vinegar Hill.
1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian
forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim
Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion
Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue
the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new
republican government.
1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded
during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the
Åland Islands.
1864 – New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga
Campaign ends.
1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants
convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill
County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1898 – The United States captures Guam from
Spain.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declared
war on the United States, Britain, Germany,
France and Japan, as an edict issued from
the Dowager Empress Cixi.
1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the
Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed
Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer
ship Zarya, never to return.
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down
its decision in Guinn v. United States 238
US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law
denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed
war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg
General Strike.
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles
the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
The nine sailors killed are the last casualties
of World War I.
1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador
Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero
War in Mexico.
1930 – One-year conscription comes into
force in France.
1940 – France signs an armistice with Germany
at Compiègne.
1940 – The first successful west-to-east
navigation of Northwest Passage begins at
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian
and 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 the United States mainland.
1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing
record album in a public demonstration at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New
York.
1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce,
through a republic act, is converted to
Philippine College of Commerce, later to
be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's
first woman Cabinet Minister.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew
Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner,
are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi,
United States, by members of the Ku Klux
Klan.
1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77
bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy
up to this date.
1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller
v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court
of the United States establishes the Miller
Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
1977 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new
government of Turkey.
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty
by reason of insanity for the attempted
assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government
Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of
homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is
repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria,
Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese
in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers
in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American
servicemen.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately
funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are
officially named Nix & Hydra.
2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Alban of Mainz
Aloysius Gonzaga
Engelmund of Velsen
Martin of Tongres
June 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Martyrs (Togo)
Father's Day (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria,
and Uganda)
Go Skateboarding Day
National Aboriginal Day (Canada)
Solstice-related observances (also see June
20):
Day of Private Reflection
National Day (Greenland)
International Surfing Day
We Tripantu, a winter solstice festival
in the southern hemisphere. (Mapuche in
southern Chile)
World Music Day
World Humanist Day (Humanism)
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