June 21 Zodiac, Events, Birthdays and Holidays

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 21. From 1900 until now. June 21 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Lana Del Rey (1985), Prince William Duke of Cambridge (1982) and Françoise Sagan (1935). Several movies were released around June 21 over the years, such as Mr. Malcolm's List in 2022 directed by Emma Holly Jones and The Baby-Sitters Club in 2020 directed by Melanie Mayron.
But much more happened on June 21 over the years: find out below

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2019 Ten civilians are killed in an explosion by a suicide bomber in a crowd of Shia Muslims in eastern Baghdad.
2018 North Korea-United States relations. North Korea and weapons.
2017 Conflict in Moro: The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters rebels invade a school at Pigcawayan (North Cotabato), Philippines and take hostages civilians.
2016 Jordanian-Syrian border incidents in the Syrian Civil War: A car bomb explodes near an outpost of the Jordanian Armed Forces in the extreme north-eastern part of Rukban. This is a temporary refugee camp for Syrian refugees. Six soldiers are killed and fourteen others are injured.
2015 After drinking moonshine in Mumbai, India (Bombay), ninety-four people are killed and 45 more are admitted to the hospital.
2014 2014 Northern Iraq offensive: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant seizes the towns of al-Qa'im and Anah in Western Iraq.
2013 In Peshawar, a suicide bomber kills and injures 15 people in a Shi'ite mosque.
2012 Arab Spring
2011 2011 Yemeni Uprising: 2000 Ethiopian migrants flee the country.
2010 Mara gang members from El Salvador attacked a bus near San Salvador. They shot at it, before lighting it on fire with gasoline. Two more people were killed when gang members opened fire on another bus.
2009 Archaeologists have evidence that the Maya used the manioc plants as a staple food.
2008 France and Algeria sign an accord that could see French nuclear power technology used in Algerian reactors.
2007 After a month-long struggle at a Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon declares victory over Fatah al-Islam (an Al Qaeda-linked group).
2006 Pluto's new moons have been officially named Nix & Hydra.
2005 Elizabeth II conducts an International Fleet Review of 167 international warships at the Solent as part of Trafalgar 200 celebrations.
2004 SpaceShipOne is the first privately-funded spaceplane to reach spaceflight.
2001 Alexandria, Virginia: A federal grand jury indicts 13 Saudis, and one Lebanese for the 1996 bombing at the Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia, which resulted in the deaths of 19 American servicemen.
2000 With a 99-to-17 vote, Section 28 (outlawing homosexuality promotion in the United Kingdom), is repealed by Scotland.
1999 Apple Computer released the first iBook
1998 98th US Golf Open: at Olympic Club San Francisco
1997 Defending the Caveman, closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 performances
1994 Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament
1993 Camelot opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 56 performances
1992 92nd US Golf Open: Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL, California
1991 Eleanor Mondale marries Greg Thunder Malban
1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims I am a Yankee!
1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
1988 42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
1987 87th US Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in San Francisco
1986 Living on Video by Trans-X peaks at #61
1985 American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1983 Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
1982 Paul McCartney releases Take it Away
1981 81st US Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion Golf Club - Ardmore, Pennsylvania
1979 Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
1977 Former White House chief of staff Harry R Haldeman enters prison.
1976 Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
1975 Jaws by Steven Spielberg opens
1974 Francine Irving Neff begins term as 35th Treasurer of the US.
1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life rock concert in McCrea, Louisiana
1970 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine National, Minnesota
1969 John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
1967 Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th and lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th and Yanks beat them 6-3
1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
1965 65th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive Country Club - St. Louis
1964 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII.
1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1960 Armin Hary runs world record 100m
1958 French franc devalues
1957 Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1954 John Landy runs world record mile
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.
1951 17 opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
1950 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit
1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
1946 Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WWII
1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit, Michigan; 30 dead.
1942 President Roosevelt / Premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
1940 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General / Council of State
1939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1937 The coalition government of Léon Blum resigns in France.
1933 First Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans.
1932 Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling
1930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th and lose 15-7
1929 An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
1919 Bauer forms German government
1917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.
1916 Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under General Pershing
1915 Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of General De Law
1913 Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1907 E W Scripps founded United Press
1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade Dougherty as a Yankee, 1st known reference to New York club as Yankees
1903 Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Mazarine Stone takes place (BG)
1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
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