June 21

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1763 - Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, philosopher
1774 - Daniel D. Tompkins, entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States
1805 - Charles Jackson, physician, chemist, pioneer geologist and mineralogist
1811 - Carlo Matteucci, physicist
1823 - Jean Chacornac, astronomer (d. 1873)
1839 - Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
1862 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince, administrator and historian (d. 1943)
1863 - Albert Sauveur, metallurgist (one of the founders of physical metallurgy)
1863 - Max Wolf, astronomer
1864 - Heinrich Wölfflin, art historian
1876 - William H. Keesom, physicist (pioneer in cryogenics)
1880 - Arnold Gesell, psychologist, pediatrician
1883 - Lluís Companys i Jover, President of Catalonia (d. 1940)
1884 - Claude Auchinleck, British Field Marshal (d. 1981)
1887 - Norman L. Bowen, petrologist (d. 1956)
1889 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, architect (d. 1979)
1891 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian
1893 - Alois Hába, composer
1896 - Charles B. Momsen, inventor
1898 - Donald C. Peattie, botanist, writer
1903 - Al Hirschfeld, cartoonist (d. 2003)
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964 (he refused to accept it) (d. 1980)
1911 - Ralph Wendell Burhoe, theologian and scientist, first American to win the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
1912 - Mary McCarthy, writer (d. 1989)
1914 - Ralf Parland, writer
1914 - William Vickrey, economist, awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
1916 - Herbert Friedman, astronomer
1916 - Joseph Cyril Bamford, inventor and industrialist
1919 - Gower Champion, dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
1919 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 1997)
1919 - Vladimir Simagin, Chess International Grandmaster & Master, International Correspondence Chess Master, trainer
1921 - Helmut Heissenbüttel, German avant-garde novelist and poet
1921 - Judy Holliday, actress (d. 1965)
1921 - Jane Russell, actress
1925 - Maureen Stapleton, actress
1927 - Carl Stokes, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1996)
1934 - Wulf Kristen, writer and recipient of the 1989 Heinrich Mann Prize
1935 - Françoise Sagan, writer
1939 - Ruben Berrios, politician
1942 - Henry Taylor, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet
1943 - Salomé, Spanish singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner
1944 - Ray Davies of The Kinks
1946 - Brenda Holloway, musician
1947 - Meredith Baxter, actress
1948 - Ian McEwan, writer
1948 - Lionel Rose, first aboriginal boxer to win a world title (in 1968)
1948 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish fantasy writer
1950 - Anne Carson, poet
1951 - Nils Lofgren, musician
1953 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (twice), first female Muslim head of government
1954 - Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
1955 - Tim Bray, computer programmer
1955 - Michel Platini, French football player
1959 - Marcella Detroit, Singer, Musician & Song-writer (Shakespear's Sister)
1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
1964 - Doug Savant, actor (Melrose Place, Desperate Housewives)
1966 - Rudi Bakhtiar, journalist
1976 - Nigel Lappin, Australian rules footballer
1973 - Juliette Lewis, actress
1981 - Brandon Flowers, singer/keyboardist (The Killers (band))
1982 - Prince William of Wales (son to Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife Diana)

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524 - Battle of Vezerone:Burgundy triumphs over the French.
1665 - First soldiers of Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories.
1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
1749 - Halifax Nova Scotia founded.
1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798: British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill
1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria
1813 - Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of impending American attack at Queenston Ontario.
1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1859 - Franco-Austrian War: Battle of Solférino is fought. Witnessed by Henri Dunant, the results were the Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross.
1864 - Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants who were labour activists, are hanged in the Carbon County, Pennsylvania Prison.
1887 - Queen Victoria's golden jubilee
1898 - Guam becomes U.s Territory.
1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1919 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during Winnipeg General Strike.
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.
1939 - The New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement.
1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany.
1940 - First successful west to east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver British Columbia.
1942 - World War II: Tobruk falls to German forces.
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 USA mainland.
1945 - World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends.
1947 - A Seaman named Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island. The next morning Dahl reported the first modern MIB encounter.
1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister
1964 - Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1965 - Folk rock band The Byrds release their highly influencial debut album Mr. Tambourine Man.
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.
1982 - John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.
1982 - Fête de la Musique street music festival inaugurated in France by Jack Lang.
1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson that flag burning is protected speech under the United States Constitution.
2000 - Section 28 repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2003 - Deputy Justice Fazel Ahmed Manawi of the Afghan Supreme Court announces that Aftab editor Sayed Madawi and his deputy Ali Payam Sestani will be tried for "libelling Islam"
2003 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series is published.
2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2005 - Four suicide bombers fail to detonate their bombs on London's underground and bus systems.

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