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 172nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 8, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 486,240 hours 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 ‘hectaheptacontadigon’ day.
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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 241 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 4,565 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
- 1307 –Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
- 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.
- 1929 –An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
- 1940 –The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on June 21?
- 1741 –Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, Italian general in the French Revolution (d.1808)
- 1883 –Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)
- 1887 –Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
- 1935 –Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
- 1966 –Nan Woods, American actress
- 1967 –Jim Breuer, American comedian
- 1971 –Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish)
- 1977 –Michael Gomez, Irish boxer
- 1981 –Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 –Rob Mills, Australian singer
Who died on June 21?
- 223 –Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
- 1171 –Walter de Luci, Normand-born Abbot of Battle Abbey (b. 1103)
- 1796 –Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
- 1824 –Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
- 1893 –Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University (b. 1824)
- 1914 –Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1843)
- 1952 –Wilfrid R. “Wop” May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
- 1998 –Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
- 1998 –Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian Cardinal
- 1999 –Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
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