About June 21
June 21, 2024 is the 173rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 222 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
June 21: More About This Day
On non-leap years (until 2039), this day marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, and is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere and the least hours of daylight in the southern hemisphere.
What Happened On June 21
- 217 BC –The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
- 1307 –Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
- 1582 –Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga is forced to commit suicide in Honnō-ji, Kyoto.
- 1768 –James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
- 1788 –New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
- 1798 –Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
- 1813 –Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
- 1824 –Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1826 –Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- 1877 –The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
- 1898 –The United States captures Guam from Spain.
- 1915 –The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- 1929 –An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
- 1942 –World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
- 1957 –Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first woman Cabinet Minister.
- 1970 –Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
- 1977 –Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
- 1982 –John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 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.
- 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.
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