What are the important events that happened on June 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 21: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 21 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 8, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,648,800 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontatrigon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,200 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 21: This Day In History
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.
June 21 Historical Events
- 524 –Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
- 1621 –Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
- 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.
- 1791 –King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
- 1824 –Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 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.
- 1948 –Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
- 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.
Who were born on June 21?
- 1712 –Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
- 1741 –Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, Italian general in the French Revolution (d.1808)
- 1786 –Charles Edward Horn, British musician (d. 1849)
- 1834 –Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont Irish Jewish noblewoman (d. 1882)
- 1889 –Tadeusz Jan Kowalski, Polish orientalist (d. 1948)
- 1896 –Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
- 1910 –Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
- 1921 –Jean de Broglie, French politician (d. 1976)
- 1924 –Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst
- 1931 –Zlatko Grgić, Croatian animator (d. 1988)
Who died on June 21?
- 1171 –Walter de Luci, Normand-born Abbot of Battle Abbey (b. 1103)
- 1305 –King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
- 1824 –Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
- 1865 –Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
- 1893 –Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University (b. 1824)
- 1964 –Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
- 1997 –Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
- 2003 –Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
- 2007 –Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
- 2008 –Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
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