About June 21
June 21, 2022 is the 172nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 215 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.
- 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.
- 1768 –James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
- 1798 –Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
- 1813 –Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
- 1826 –Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- 1898 –The United States captures Guam from Spain.
- 1900 –Boxer Rebellion. China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi.
- 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.
- 1940 –France signs an armistice with Germany at Compiègne.
- 1942 –World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
- 1948 –Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
- 1957 –Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first woman Cabinet Minister.
- 1964 –Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1973 –In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
- 2004 –SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- 2006 –Pluto’s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
- 2009 –Greenland assumes self-rule.
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