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.

 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)

Category:Days o the year