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 &ndash; Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan o the Mongols an Wuzong o the Yuan.
*1377 &ndash; Richard II o Ingland becomes King.
*1749 &ndash; Halifax, Nova Scotia, is foondit.
*1788 &ndash; New Hampshire becomes the 9t State tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
*1898 &ndash; The Unitit States takes the Paceefic island o Guam frae Spain.
*1900 &ndash; Boxer Rebellion: Cheenae declares war on the Unitit States, Unitit Kinrick, Germany, Fraunce an Japan.
*1919 &ndash; At Scapa Flow in Orkney, Germany scuttles its warships.
*1945 &ndash; Warld War II: The Battle o Okinawa ends.
*1963 &ndash; Pape Paul VI is electit.
*1970 &ndash; Brazil wins the FIFA Warld Cup for the third time, defeatin Italy 4-1 in the feenal.
*1990 &ndash; A yirdquauk in Iran kills ower 7,000 fowk.
*1997 &ndash; In the Unitit States, the WNBA (Weemen's Naitional Basketbaw Association) haulds its first gemmes.
*1998 &ndash; At the 1998 FIFA Warld Cup, Iran defeats the Unitit States 2-1 in a group-stage gemme.
*2000 &ndash; Scotland repeals Section 28, a law which banned "promotin" homosexuality (Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act)
*2003 &ndash; The novel Harry Potter an the Order o the Phoenix, bi J. K. Rowling, is released.
*2006 &ndash; Pluto's twa newly-discovered muins are namit Nix an Hydra.
*2009 &ndash; Greenland gets increased autonomy frae Denmark.
*2018 &ndash; New Zealand prime meenister Jacinda Ardern becomes the seicont electit poleetical leader tae gie birth while in affice.
*2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: Spain lifts its State o Emergency an permits traivel frae ither European kintras.

## Births

*1002 &ndash; Pape Leo IX (d. 1054)
*1791 &ndash; Robert Napier, Scots ingineer (d. 1876)
*1813 &ndash; William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Scots lawyer an poet (d. 1865)
*1892 &ndash; Alexander Watt, Scots botanist (d. 1985)
*1905 &ndash; Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher an writer (d. 1980)
*1921 &ndash; Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
*1921 &ndash; Judy Holliday, American comedienne, actress an sangster (d. 1965)
*1930 &ndash; Gerald Kaufman, Inglis politeecian (d. 2017)
*1944 &ndash; Tony Scott, Inglis film director (d. 2012)
*1946 &ndash; Kate Hoey, Breetish politeecian
*1946 &ndash; Malcolm Rifkind, Scots politeecian
*1947 &ndash; Shirin Ebadi, Iranian activist
*1948 &ndash; Ian McEwan, Inglis writer
*1953 &ndash; Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politeecian, first female Prime meenister o Pakistan (d. 2007)
*1955 &ndash; Michel Platini, French fitbawer an offeecial
*1959 &ndash; Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi cleric (d. 2016)
*1961 &ndash; Joko Widodo, Preses o Indonesie
*1967 &ndash; Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai politeecian, umwhile Prime meenister o Thailand
*1973 &ndash; Zuzana Caputova, Preses o Slovakie
*1979 &ndash; Chris Pratt, American actor
*1982 &ndash; Prince William, Yerl o Strathearn
*1983 &ndash; Nadia Lopez, Mexican sangster
*1983 &ndash; Edward Snowden, American whistleblower
*1985 &ndash; Lana Del Rey, American sangster-sangwriter
*1992 &ndash; Carly Booth, Scots gowfer

## Daiths
*1377 &ndash; King Edward III o Ingland (b. 1312)
*1527 &ndash; Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer (b. 1469)
*1582 &ndash; Oda Nobunaga, Japanese daimyo (b. 1534)
*1652 &ndash; Inigo Jones, Inglis airchitect (b. 1573)
*1914 &ndash; Bertha von Suttner, Austrick activist (b. 1843)
*1948 &ndash; D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scots fitbawer an cricketer (b. 1860)
*1957 &ndash; Johannes Stark, German pheesicist (b. 1874)
*1963 &ndash; Tully Craig, Scots fitbawer (b. 1895)
*1970 &ndash; Sukarno, Indonesie politeecian, 1st Preses o Indonesie (b. 1901)
*2018 &ndash; Charles Krauthammer, American poleetical commentator, columnist an writer (b. 1950)
*2019 &ndash; 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)