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.
- 524 –Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
- 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.
- 1749 –Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
- 1798 –Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
- 1824 –Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1854 –The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
- 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.
- 1919 –Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
- 1929 –An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
- 1930 –One-year conscription comes into force in France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 –Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
- 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.
- 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.
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