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