What are the important events that happened on June 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 21: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 21 is the 173rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 8, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,648,800 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontatrigon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 222 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,200 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 21: This Day In History
On non-leap years (until 2039), this day marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, and is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere and the least hours of daylight in the southern hemisphere.
June 21 Historical Events
- 1582 –Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga is forced to commit suicide in Honnō-ji, Kyoto.
- 1854 –The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
- 1942 –World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
- 1948 –Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
- 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.
- 1977 –Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
- 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.
- 2009 –Greenland assumes self-rule.
Who were born on June 21?
- 1639 –Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
- 1750 –Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor, draftsman and printmaker (d. 1818)
- 1850 –Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1928)
- 1894 –Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
- 1908 –William Frankena, American moral philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1912 –Mary McCarthy, American writer (d. 1989)
- 1947 –Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1960 –Kevin Harlan, American sportscaster
- 1966 –Nan Woods, American actress
- 1981 –David Bortolussi, French-born Italian rugby player
Who died on June 21?
- 1205 –Enrico Dandolo, 42nd Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
- 1527 –Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
- 1621 –Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575)
- 1652 –Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
- 1824 –Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
- 1914 –Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1843)
- 1917 –Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1856)
- 1952 –Wilfrid R. “Wop” May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
- 1969 –Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
- 1992 –Li Xiannian, President of the People’s Republic of China (b. 1909)
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