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What Happened on June 21st This Day in History

Year	Name
2012	A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
2009	Greenland assumes self-rule.
2006	Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
2005	Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
2004	SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
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.
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Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
1989	The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
1982	John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1978	The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
1973	In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.
1970	Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
1964	Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1963	Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
1957	Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
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.
1945	World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
1942	World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces; 33,000 Allied troops are taken prisoner.
1942	World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
1940	World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
1930	One-year conscription comes into force in France.
1929	An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
1921	The Irish village of Knockcroghery was burned by British forces.[4][5]
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 at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
1915	The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
1900	Boxer Rebellion: China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
1898	The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
1864	American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
1848	In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
1826	Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1824	Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1813	Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria.
1798	Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1791	King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
1788	New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1768	James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
1749	Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
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.
1621	Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1582	Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
1529	French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
1307	Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
533	A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).

Famous People Born on June 21

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Year	Name
1919	Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (d. 2013)
1845	Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (d. 1920)
1967	Pierre Omidyar, French-American businessman, founded eBay
1891	Hermann Scherchen, German-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 1966)
1911	Irving Fein, American producer and manager (d. 2012)
1870	Anthony Michell, English-Australian engineer (d. 1959)
1947	Michael Gross, American actor
1932	Lalo Schifrin, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor
1942	Flaviano Vicentini, Italian cyclist (d. 2002)
1948	Ian McEwan, British novelist and screenwriter

Famous People Deaths On June 21

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on June 21. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
870	Al-Muhtadi, Muslim caliph
1596	Jean Liebault, French agronomist and physician (b. 1535)
1994	William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)
1980	Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (b. 1923)
1987	Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (b. 1914)
1737	Matthieu Marais, French author, critic, and jurist (b. 1664)
2007	Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (b. 1918)
1967	Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (b. 1892)
2015	Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1964)
2004	Leonel Brizola, Brazilian engineer and politician, Governor of Rio de Janeiro (b. 1922)