About June 21
June 21, 2025 is the 172nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 241 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
- 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.
- 1791 –King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
- 1798 –Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
- 1826 –Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- 1854 –The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
- 1864 –New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
- 1877 –The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
- 1919 –The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
- 1929 –An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
- 1940 –The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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