June 21

Events

• 1665 - First soldiers of Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières arrive at Quebec 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.
• 1813 - Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of impending American attack at Queenston Ontario.
• 1887 - Queen Victoria's golden jubilee
• 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 Winnepeg 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.
• 1940 - France surrenders to Germany.
• 1940 - First successful west to east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver British Columbia.
• 1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister
• 1964 - Three Civil Rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Cheney and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
• 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.
• 2000 - Section 28 repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

Births

• 356 BC - Alexander the Great
• 1731 - Martha Washington
• 1839 - Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (+ 1908)
• 1884 - Claude Auchinleck, British Field Marshal (+ 1981)
• 1887 - Norman L. Bowen, petrologist (+ 1956)
• 1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, architect (+ 1979)
• 1903 - Al Hirschfeld, cartoonist
• 1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1964 (+ 1980)
• 1912 - Mary McCarthy, writer (+ 1989)
• 1919 - Gower Champion, dancer and choreographer (+ 1980)
• 1921 - Judy Holliday, actress (+ 1965)
• 1921 - Jane Russell, actress
• 1925 - Maureen Stapleton, actress
• 1934 - Wulf Kristen, writer and recipient of the Heinrich Mann Prize 1989
• 1935 - Francoise Sagan, writer
• 1939 - Ruben Berrios, politician
• 1944 - Ray Davies of The Kinks
• 1951 - Nils Lofgren, musician
• 1956 - Michel Platini, French football player
• 1973 - Juliette Lewis, actress
• 1982 - Prince William of Wales (son to Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife Diana)

Deaths

• 1377 - King Edward III of England
• 1527 - Niccolo Machiavelli, historian and political author, age 53
• 1652 - Inigo Jones, architect
• 1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
• 1934 - Thorne Smith, author ("Topper_books" books and others)
• 1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, aviation pioneer
• 1964 - Andrew Goodman, civil rights activist
• 1964 - James Cheney, civil rights activist
• 1964 - Mickey Schwerner, civil rights activist
• 1969 - Maureen Connolly, tennis star
• 1970 - Sukarno, Indonesian President
• 1990 - Ross Munro, journalist, Canadian Press war correspondent, editor, publisher
• 2001 - Carroll O'Connor, actor, age 76
• 2001 - John Lee Hooker, blues musician, age 83

Holidays and Observances

• Summer solstice (Northern hemisphere) and Winter solstice (Southern hemisphere)
• National Aboriginal Day in Canada (starting in 1996)
• Midsummer - Neopagan festival.

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