June 21

June 21 is the 172nd (one hundred and seventy-second) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 173rd in leap years. There are 193 days left to end the year.

Events

• 217 B.C.: about 70 km west of Lake Trasimeno (centre of Italy) at 11:00 p.m. (local time) an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 occurs on the seismological scale of Richter. It happened during the massacre of Lake Trasimeno, in which General Anibal annihilated the Roman army. The historian Tito Livio (in Ab urbe condo22.5) declared: "With a horrible shock, [the earthquake] leveled mountains, changed the course of rivers, and collapsed large areas of many of the cities of Italy."
• 524: In the battle of Vézeronce, Gundomar (the rulers) defeats the Franks.
• 1483: In Spain, in order to siege Granada, the Christian camp is installed for the first time in the place named Ojos de Huecar, later called the city of Santa Fe.
• 1582: in Kyoto, Japan, the Honnōji Incident happens.
• 1621: In Prague, as a result of the battle of the White Mountain, 27 Czech noblemen are executed.
• 1665: In Canada, the first soldiers of the Carignan-Salières Regiment arrived in Quebec to invade the territories of the Iroquians.
• 1788: In the United States, New Hampshire becomes state number 9.
• 1791: In Varennes-en-Argonne (France) King Louis XVI was arrested during his flight from the country.
• 1798: In the battle of Vinegar Hill, British troops defeat the Irish.
• 1813: In the framework of the Spanish Independence War, the battle of Vitoria is waged.
• 1813: In Upper Peru (now Bolivia), the North Army in charge of attorney Manuel Belgrano continues its march north, and takes the city of Potosí.
• 1824: In the Aegean Sea—in the War of Greek Independence—Egyptian forces capture the city of Psara.
• 1825: In the province of Andahuaylas (Peru) the Argentine general José de San Martín creates the district of San Jerónimo.
• 1831: Cyrus McCormick invents the mower.
• 1867: the victory of republican weapons over the Second Mexican Empire takes place when the last defenders of the monarchical regime in Mexico City make a white flag waving in the cathedral.
• 1887: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom celebrates her Golden Jubilee.
• 1898: In the Pacific Ocean, the United States invades Guam and turns it into U.S. territory.
• 1903: In Sicily, Italy, an earthquake of magnitude 8.4 in the seismological scale of Richter leaves 60 000 victims.
• 1916: In the battle of El Carrizal, Mexicans beat the Americans (who had entered Mexico during the Punitive Expedition to punish Pancho Villa.
• 1918: in Córdoba, Argentina, the young students of the university reform movement of the University of Córdoba make public the Manifesto liminarwhich would become a basic document of the whole movement spreading throughout Latin America.
• 1919: In Scapa Flow, in the Orcadas islands, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter orders to sink the German fleet to avoid its distribution among the winners.
• 1923: There are serious floods in El Salvador between yesterday and today.
• 1926: In Tarrazú (Costa Rica) the Orion F. C., team of the first division of Costa Rica was founded.
• 1928: in Mar del Plata (Argentina) is founded the Club Atlético Alvarado, team of the third division of Argentine football
• 1929: Mexico signed the agreements that ratified the end of the so-called Cristera War.
• 1933: in Germany, Adolf Hitler forbids all non-Nazi parties.
• 1942: In the Second World War, Tobruk falls into the hands of the Italian and German forces, the Germans defeat the English in the battle of Gazala
• 1942: In Fort Stevens—in the framework of World War II—a Japanese submarine sails through the Columbia River (in Oregon), shooting 17 torpedoes in one of the few Japanese attacks on U.S. territory.
• 1942: in Tirat Tsvi (North Distrito) the highest temperature is recorded in Israel's History (and that of the entire Asian continent): 53.9 °C (129 °F).
• 1945: In World War II, the battle of Okinawa ends.
• 1956: in the Atoll Enewetak, the United States detonates the Inca atomic bomb (name of the ethnic group of the greatest pre-Columbian empire), of 15.2 kilotons. It is the 81st bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1962: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Neo-Nazi group Tacuara abducts the student Graciela Narcisa Sirota (19) in the middle of the public road and tortures (with cigarettes they burned several swastika in the body). According to his captors, it was a revenge for the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann on 11 May 1960. On June 28, the Jewish community held a strike by traders in repudiation of this anti-Semite act.
• 1963: in the Vatican City, the conclave of cardinals chooses Giovanni Montini as a Pope. This adopts the name of Paul VI.
• 1964: in Neshoba County (Misisipi), Ku Klux Klan members murder three black civil rights activists: Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner.
• 1977: In Israel, Menachem Begin becomes prime minister.
• 1978: in Rosario (Argentina), during the World Cup of Football, Argentina wins in a controversial match for 6-0 to Peru and achieves its pass at the end of the tournament.
• 1982: In the United States, John Hinckley, Jr. is found not guilty on the grounds of mental incapacity for the attempted murder of President Ronald Reagan.
• 1990: in Iran, a violent earthquake of 7.6 degrees shakes the whole country, leaving over 100,000 dead and 367 000 wounded.
• 1991 launches Sonic the Hedgehog video game in the Western market
• 2002:
  • The World Health Organization declares Europe a polio-free zone.
  • The American film Lilo & Stitch is released.
• 2004: SpaceShipOne becomes the first private space rocket.
• 2006: two new moons of Pluto are discovered, which will be baptized as Nix and Hydra.

Births

• 1002: Leo IX, German pope (f. 1054).
• 1528: María de Austria y Portugal, aristocrat española (f. 1603).
• 1538: Luis de Fuentes y Vargas, explorer and Spanish military (f. 1598).
• 1588: George Wither, British writer (f. 1667).
• 1640: Abraham Mignon, a Dutch painter (f. 1679).
• 1651: William VII of Hesse-Kassel, German aristocrat (f. 1670).
• 1730: Motōri Norinaga, a Japanese writer (f. 1801).
• 1732: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German musician, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (f. 1795).
• 1763: Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard, a French politician and philosopher (f. 1845).
• 1766: Emmanuel de Las Cases, French historian (f. 1842).
• 1781: Siméon Denis Poisson, French physicist and mathematician (f. 1840).
• 1788: Augusta de Baviera, German aristocrat (f. 1851).
• 1792: Ferdinand Christian Baur, German historian (f. 1860).
• 1809: Santiago Derqui, politician and Argentine president (f. 1867).
• 1810: Manuel Payno, Mexican writer (f. 1894).
• 1811: Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (f. 1868).
• 1812: Moses Hess, German philosopher (f. 1875).
• 1816: Luis G. Inclán, Mexican novelist (f. 1875).
• 1818: Ernesto II of Saxony, German aristocrat (f. 1893).
• 1823: Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (f. 1873).
• 1827: Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter (f. 1902).
• 1831: Luis de Baviera, aristocrat German (f. 1920).
• 1839: Joaquim Machado de Assis, a Brazilian writer (f. 1908).
• 1850: Enrico Cecchetti, Italian choreographer (f. 1928).
• 1850: María Isabel Manuel, aristocrat española (f. 1929).
• 1858: Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (f. 1928).
• 1859: Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter and illustrator (f. 1937).
• 1863: Max Wolf, German astronomer (f. 1932).
• 1864: Heinrich Wölfflin, critic and historian of Swiss art (f. 1945).
• 1870: Julio Ruelas. Mexican symbolist painter and engraver (f. 1907).
• 1870: Clara Immerwahr, German chemistry (f. 1915)
• 1880: Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (f. 1961).
• 1882: Lluís Companys, a Spanish politician and lawyer (f. 1940).
• 1884: Claude Auchinleck, a British military and general (f. 1981).
• 1887: Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist (f. 1956).
• 1889: Ralph Craig, American athlete (f. 1972).
• 1889: Félix Hernández Giménez, Spanish architect (f. 1975).
• 1890: Lewis H. Brereton, American military (f. 1967).
• 1891: Francisco L. Urquizo, military, political, writer and Mexican historian (f. 1969).
• 1891: Hermann Scherchen, director of German orchestra (f. 1966).
• 1891: Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer (f. 1979).
• 1892: Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and polytologist (f. 1971).
• 1893: Luis Quintanilla Isasi, a Spanish painter (f. 1978).
• 1894: Olinda Bozán, an Argentine actress (f. 1977).
• 1898: Edmund Hirst, British chemist (f. 1975).
• 1899: Pavel Haas, Czech composer (f. 1944).
• 1902: Francisco García Lorca, poet, professor, diplomat and Spanish writer (f. 1973).
• 1903: Alf Sjöberg, Swedish film and theatre director (f. 1980).
• 1903: José María Yermo Solaegui, Spanish footballer (f. 1960).
• 1905: Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher and writer (f. 1980).
• 1912: Mary McCarthy, American writer (f. 1989).
• 1914: William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics in Memory in 1996 (f. 1996).
• 1916: José D'Elía, a Uruguayan trade unionist and politician (f. 2007).
• 1918: María Luisa Ponte, a Spanish actress (f. 1996).
• 1918: Josephine Webb, American electric engineer.
• 1919: Nelson Gonçalves, Brazilian musician f. 1998).
• 1919: Paolo Soleri, American architect (f. 2013).
• 1921: Hans Koning, Dutch writer and polemist (f. 2007).
• 1921: Judy Holliday, American actress (f. 1965).
• 1921: Jane Russell, American actress (f. 2011).
• 1924: Jean Laplanche, a French philosopher, doctor and psychoanalyst (f. 2012).
• 1924: Marga López, Mexican actress (f. 2005).
• 1925: Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, Bolivian politician, president of Bolivia in 1969 (f. 2005).
• 1925: Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician f. 1994).
• 1925: Maureen Stapleton, American actress (f. 2006).
• 1925: Stanley Moss, American poet and art dealer.

Lou Ottens.

• 1926: Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor (f. 2021).
• 1928: Salvador Aldana Fernández, an art historian and a Spanish writer (f. 2020).
• 1928: Per Lillo-Stenberg, Norwegian actor (f. 2014).
• 1929: Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian actor and singer (f. 1977).
• 1932: Lalo Schifrin, pianist and Argentine composer.
• 1933: Luis "Checho" González, folklorist, Chilean composer and songwriter (f. 2022).
• 1935: Françoise Sagan, French writer (f. 2004).
• 1938: Ron Ely, American actor.
• 1939: Charles Jencks, landscape architect and historian of American architecture (f. 2019).
• 1939: Rubén Berrios, Puerto Rican politician.
• 1940: Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher.
• 1940: Miguel Loayza, Peruvian footballer (f. 2017).
• 1941: Cecil Gordon, American racing pilot (f. 2012).
• 1942: Henry S. Taylor, American writer.
• 1943: Salome (María Rosa Marco Poquet), Spanish singer.
• 1944: Ray Davies, British musician, of the band The Kinks.
• 1944: Tony Scott, British filmmaker (f. 2012).
• 1944: Corinna Tsopei, Greek model.
• 1945: Adam Zagajewski, poet, novelist and Polish essayist (f. 2021).
• 1947: Meredith Baxter, American actress.
• 1947: Çetin Alp, Turkish singer (f. 2004)
• 1947: Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer and activist, Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
• 1947: Fernando Savater, Spanish writer.
• 1948: Ian McEwan, British novelist.
• 1948: Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer.
• 1950: Joey Kramer, American drummer, Aerosmith band.
• 1950: Anne Carson, Canadian poet.
• 1950: John Paul Young, an Australian singer of Scottish origin.
• 1951: Nils Lofgren, American musician.
• 1952: Luis "El Terror" Days, Dominican musician (f. 2009).
• 1953: Benazir Bhutto, politics and the first Pakistani minister (f. 2007).
• 1953: Michael Bowen, American actor.
• 1954: José Diego Álvarez, Spanish footballer.
• 1954: Robert Menasse, Austrian writer.
• 1954: Augustus Paul, a Jamaican musician (f. 1999).
• 1955: Michel Platini, French footballer.
• 1955: Germán Yanke, Spanish journalist (f. 2017).
• 1956: Luis Rafael Herrera Estrella, Mexican biochemical engineer.
• 1958: Víctor Montoya, Bolivian writer.
• 1958: Guennadi Pádalka, Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1958: Jennifer Larmore, American mezzo-soprano.
• 1958: Jaime Urrutia, Spanish musician, of the band Cabinet Caligari.
• 1960: Analí Cabrera, vedette and Peruvian actress (f. 2011).
• 1961: Manu Chao, French musician, of the Black Hand band.
• 1961: Kip Winger, American musician.
• 1961: Joko Widodo, Indonesian President.
• 1962: Víktor Tsoi, Russian musician (f. 1990).
• 1962: Aitor Esteban, politician.
• 1962: Christopher Domínguez Michael, Mexican literary critic.
• 1963: Dario Marianelli, Italian composer.
• 1963: Guille Martín, Spanish guitarist, de las bandas La Frontera y Los Rodríguez (f. 2006).
• 1963: Gōshō Aoyama, Japanese manga drawer
• 1964: Kevin Johansen, Argentine singer.
• 1964: Sammi Davis, British actress.
• 1964: Doug Savant, American actor.
• 1965: Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut.
• 1965: Lana Wachowski, American filmmaker.
• 1965: Jorge Moragas, Spanish politician.
• 1966: Leticia Sabater, TV presenter and Spanish actress.
• 1967: Pierre Omidyar, American millionaire of Iranian origin.
• 1967: Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai politics.
• 1968: Nelson de la Rosa, Dominican actor (f. 2006).
• 1969: Patricia Figueroa, Peruvian journalist, Costa Rican naturalized.
• 1970: Paola Krum, Argentine actress.
• 1970: Pete Rock, American rapper.
• 1971: Faryd Mondragón, a Colombian ex-futbolist, of Lebanese descent.
• 1971: Anette Olzon, Swedish singer.
• 1972: Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
• 1973: Zuzana Čaputová, Slovak politics, President of Slovakia since 2019.
• 1974: Craig Lowndes, Australian motor racing pilot.
• 1976: Pablo Benegas, Spanish guitarist, from the band La Oreja de Van Gogh.
• 1976: Mike Einziger, American musician, from the Indian band.
• 1978: Ignacio Corleto, Argentinian rugby player.
• 1978: Erica Durance, Canadian actress.
• 1978: Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer.

Chris Pratt.

• 1979: Chris Pratt, American actor.
• 1981: Brandon Flowers, American vocalist, of the band The Killers.
• 1982: William of Cambridge, British aristocrat.
• 1982: Biassini Segura, Colombian actor.
• 1983: Nadia, Mexican singer.
• 1983: Edward Snowden, American technical consultant.
• 1984: Franck Perera, French motor racing pilot.
• 1985: Lana Del Rey, American singer.
• 1986: Iani Verón, Argentine soccer player.
• 1987: Pablo Barrera, Mexican footballer.
• 1988: Isaac Vorsah, Ghanaian footballer.
• 1990: Gretchen G, Venezuelan singer (f. 2018).
• 1991: Gael Kakuta, French footballer.
• 1991: Ricky van Haaren, Dutch footballer.
• 1991: Anders Aplin, Singaporean footballer.
• 1992: Max Schneider, model, dancer, singer, actor and American composer.
• 1993: Sinem Ünsal, model and Turkish actress
• 1996: Marco Supino, Italian footballer.
• 1997: Rebecca Black, American singer.
• 2011: Lil Bub, a well-known American online cat (f. 2019).

Deaths

• 223: Liu Bei, Chinese emperor (n. 161).
• 1040: Fulco III de Anjou, noble and military French (n. 972).
• 1205: Enrico Dandolo, a Venetian politician (n. 1107).
• 1208: Philip of Suabia, duke suabo (n. 1177).
• 1305: Wenceslas II of Bohemia, Polish king (n. 1271).
• 1377: Edward III, English king (n. 1312).
• 1527: Nicholas Machiavelli, Italian philosopher (n. 1469).
• 1529: John Skelton, English poet (n. 1460).
• 1547: Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (n. 1485).
• 1582: Nobunaga Oda, Japanese daimyo (n. 1534).
• 1586: Martin de Azpilicueta, Spanish intellectual (n. 1492).
• 1591: Luis Gonzaga, an Italian saint (n. 1568).
• 1652: Íñigo Jones, English architect (n. 1573).
• 1741: Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Belgian composer and violinist (n. 1703).
• 1762 (or 19 June): Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer and organist (n. 1702).
• 1773: Jorge Juan, Spanish naval engineer and scientist (n. 1713).
• 1793: Luis de Unzaga and Amézaga, an illustrated Spanish-American governor (n. 1717).
• 1827: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican writer (n. 1776).
• 1828: Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish playwright (n. 1760).
• 1868: Sarath Mather, inventor of the periscope (n. 1796).
• 1874: Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physiologist (n. 1814).
• 1876: Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican politician (n. 1795).
• 1898: Manuel Tamayo and Baus, a Spanish writer (n. 1829).
• 1905: Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, Uruguayan politician (n. 1837).
• 1908: Nikolái Rimski-Kórsakov, Russian composer (n. 1844).
• 1908: Benedict Friedlaender, sexologist and German activist (n. 1866).
• 1914: Bertha von Suttner, a pacifist and Austrian writer, a Nobel Peace Prize in 1905 (n. 1843).
• 1918: Edward Abramowski, a Polish anarchist philosopher (n. 1868).
• 1929: Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, politician and sociologist, theorist of the new liberalism (n. 1864).
• 1936: Atilio Malinverno, an Argentine painter (n. 1890).
• 1940: Smedley Butler, American General (n. 1881).
• 1942: Agustín Remiro, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (n. 1904).
• 1943: Elise Richter, Austrian philosopher and professor murdered by the Nazis (f. 1865).
• 1951: Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (n. 1867).
• 1957: Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize in 1919 (n. 1874).
• 1964: Michael Schwerner, an American civil rights activist (n. 1939).
• 1967: Luis Arata, Argentine actor (n. 1895).
• 1967: Antonio Bertola, Italian cyclist (n. 1914).
• 1969: Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (n. 1934).
• 1970: Lev Kassil, Russian writer (n. 1905).
• 1970: Sukarno, Indonesian President (n. 1901).
• 1976: Margaret Herrick, American filmmaker (n. 1902).
• 1980: Bert Kaempfert, German composer (n. 1923).
• 1985: Tage Erlander, Swedish Prime Minister (n. 1901).
• 1988: Pedrito Rico, Spanish singer (n. 1932).
• 1992: Joan Fuster, Spanish writer (n. 1922).
• 1997: Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican trade union leader (n. 1900).
• 2000: Alan Hovhaness, American composer (n. 1911).
• 2001: John Lee Hooker, American blues singer and guitarist (n. 1912).
• 2001: Carroll O'Connor, American actor (n. 1924).
• 2003: Lion Uris, American writer (n. 1924).
• 2004: Leonel Brizola, a Brazilian politician (n. 1922).
• 2005: Jaime Cardinal Sin, Cardinal Filipino (n. 1928).
• 2006: Margara Alonso, Argentine actress (n. 1928).
• 2008: George Carlin, American comedian (n. 1937).
• 2008: Adalberto Almeida, Mexican Archbishop (n. 1916).
• 2009: Julio Valdeón Baruque, Spanish historian (n. 1936).
• 2011: Analí Cabrera, vedette and Peruvian actress (n. 1960).
• 2015: Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (n. 1928).
• 2015: Gunther Schuller American composer and musician (n. 1925).
• 2019: Dimitris Jristofias, Cypriot politician, president of Cyprus between 2008 and 2013 (n. 1946).
• 2020: Bernardino Piñera, a Chilean doctor and priest (n. 1915).

Celebrations

• International Solstice Celebration Day
• International Yoga Day
• World Day Against Amiotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
• World Jirafa Day
• Music party.
• Go Skateboarding Day (skateboarding, skateboarding).
• Sun Day.
• Greenland National Day
• BoliviaBolivia:
  • New year Aymara (National holiday).
• ChileChile:
  • National Film Day.
  • National Day of Indigenous Peoples.

Catholic saints list

• San Luis Gonzaga, religious (1591).
• San Meveno de Gaëlabad (s. VI).
• San Leufredo de EvreuxAbbot (738).
• San Radulfo de Bourges, bishop (866).
• San Raimundo de HuescaBishop (1126).
• beato Tomás Corsinireligious (1343).
• San Juan Rigbymartyr (1600).
• Beato Jacobo Morelle Dupas, priest and martyr (1794).
• San José Isabel Flores, priest and martyr (1927).
• ‘’ Santa Marisa Varela’’