June 21

Tuesday 21, 2005:

Donald Tsang Yam Kuen is appointed by the People's Republic of China to take over from Tung Chee Hwa as the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Monday 21, 2004:

SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

Saturday 21, 2003:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.

Wednesday 21, 2000:

Section 28 repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

Wednesday 21, 1989:

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson that flag burning is protected speech under the United States Constitution.

Monday 21, 1982:

Fête de la Musique street music festival inaugurated in France by Jack Lang.

Thursday 21, 1973:

In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.

Monday 21, 1965:

Folk rock band The Byrds release their highly influential debut album Mr. Tambourine Man.

Sunday 21, 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.

Friday 21, 1957:

Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister

Saturday 21, 1947:

A seaman named Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island, United States. The next morning Dahl reported the first modern MIB encounter.

Thursday 21, 1945:

World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends.

Sunday 21, 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 U.S. mainland.

Friday 21, 1940:

First successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.

Wednesday 21, 1939:

The New York Yankees U.S. baseball team announce Lou Gehrig's retirement.

Saturday 21, 1919:

Admiral Ludvig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War.

Monday 21, 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.

Tuesday 21, 1898:

Guam becomes a U.S. territory.

Tuesday 21, 1887:

Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.

Thursday 21, 1877:

The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants who were labor activists, are hanged in the Carbon County, Pennsylvania Prison.

Tuesday 21, 1864:

Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.

Tuesday 21, 1859:

Franco-Austrian War: Battle of Solférino is fought. Witnessed by Henri Dunant, the results were the Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross.

Wednesday 21, 1826:

Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas

Monday 21, 1824:

Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.

Monday 21, 1813:

Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario.

Thursday 21, 1798:

Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill

Saturday 21, 1788:

New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.

Saturday 21, 1749:

Halifax, Nova Scotia, founded.

Monday 21, 1734:

In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique was tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.

Sunday 21, 1665:

First soldiers of Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories.

Monday 21, 1621:

an execution of 27 Czech lords on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the battle on the "White Mountain".

Wednesday 21, 524:

Battle of Vezerone: Burgundy triumphs over the French.

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