Historical Events On June 21 - On This Day

• June

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15
• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19
• 20
• 21
• 22
• 23
• 24
• 25
• 26
• 27
• 28
• 29
• 30

123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930

• Summary
• Events
• Birthdays
• Deaths
• Weddings
• Film & TV
• Music
• Sport

• 217 BC Battle of Lake Trasimene: Carthaginian general Hannibal defeats a Roman army headed by Consul Gaius Flaminius during the Second Punic War; Flaminius is killed

68 Roman General Vespasian conquers Jericho during the Great Jewish Revolt

• 524 Godomar, King of the Burgundians, defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce
• 1128 Battle of Thielt (Axpoel): William Clito of Normandy defeats the forces of Thierry of Alsace

1307 Külüg Khan is enthroned as Emperor of China and seventh Great Khan after defeating rival factions and succeeding his uncle Temür Khan

• 1498 Jews are expelled from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian
• 1529 Battle of Landriano: Imperial-Spanish forces under Don Antonio de Leyva, Duke of Terranova, beat a French army under Francis de Bourbon, Comte de St. Pol

1529 Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon, speaks against her marriage's annulment at the Blackfriars Legatine Court

• 1547 Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
• 1572 Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda

1582 Honnō-ji Incident: assassination of Oda Nobunaga by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide in Kyoto, Japan

• 1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established at Jamestown
• 1661 Russia and Sweden sign the Peace Treaty of Cardis, ending the Russo-Swedish War
• 1667 Raid of the Medway: Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies the town of Sheerness in England

1672 French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht

1672 Grand Pensionary of Holland Johan de Witt is seriously wounded by a knife-wielding assassin

1675 Foundation stone for London's St. Paul’s Cathedral is laid

• 1734 In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony
• 1749 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Netherlands
• 1749 Town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded by the British - sparks Father Le Loutre's War
• 1768 The first medical diploma in America is granted to Dr. John Archer by the College of Philadelphia
• 1788 The population of Vizille, France, demands local parliament

1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it

1791 Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne

• 1792 British George Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, British Columbia
• 1805 Great Stone Face, or the Profile found in New Hampshire
• 1813 Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria results in a victory for a Spanish, Portuguese and British alliance against the French
• 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
• 1822 Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas arrested in South Carolina
• 1824 Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea
• 1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas

1834 American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine

• 1849 Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
• 1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes in Worcester, Massachusetts [1]
• 1854 First Victoria Cross won during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands during the Crimean War

1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe

• 1863 Battle at Upperville, Virginia, Union forces hold off Confederate advance, 389 causalities
• 1864 New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends
• 1868 Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg" premieres in Munich

1869 William James 'the Father of American Psychology' passes his medical examination at Harvard Medical School

• 1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons

1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his first successful "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

• 1879 Infielder William White plays one game for the Providence Grays with conjecture was the first African-American to play MLB even though he appeared Caucasian

1887 Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria

• 1893 First Ferris wheel opens at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois
• 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
• 1895 British Earl of Rosebery's Liberal Party government falls
• 1898 US captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish–American War
• 1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
• 1900 In the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty
• 1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)

1904 The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls 'malefactors of great wealth'

• 1905 Polish workers in Łódź, Congress Poland stage strikes and insurrection against Russian occupation; quashed by tsars' troops after a few days
• 1907 E. W. Scripps founds United Press Associations in the US
• 1913 Tiny Broadwick is the first woman to parachute from an airplane
• 1915 Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law
• 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
• 1916 Boston Red Sox pitcher Rube Foster no-hits New York Yankees, 2-0 at Fenway Park
• 1916 Mexican troops defeat US expeditionary force under General Pershing
• 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
• 1919 Social Democrat Gustav Bauer forms a German government

1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands

• 1921 The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations

1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud

• 1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms

1932 German champion Max Schmeling loses NYSAC, NBA and lineal heavyweight boxing titles in controversial split points decision to American Jack Sharkey in NYC, New York

• 1933 First Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico barge trip is completed in New Orleans

1937 French People's Popular Front government of Socialist Léon Blum falls

• 1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit

1939 NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

• 1940 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
• 1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia
• 1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus, Syria
• 1942 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
• 1942 Anneliese Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)

1942 Germany's Panzer Army led by Erwin Rommel takes Tobruk in Libya, North Africa

1942 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill arrive at Hyde Park for the hastily convened Second Washington Conference

• 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit; 30 dead
• 1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
• 1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa
• 1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas, Texas

1946 Bill Veeck buys MLB baseball team Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million

• 1946 Federal judge in Seattle rules that club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
• 1948 1st stored computer program runs on Manchester Mark I at a laboratory in Manchester University, England

1948 Columbia Records unveils the 33-1/3 rpm LP phonograph record, invented by Peter Carl Goldmark, allowing up to 20 minutes per side (available in 10 and 12-inch diameters) at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC; over the next decade, its popularity and profitability push the 78 rpm record out of production [1]

• 1948 HMT Empire Windrush with the first 800 emigrants from the West Indies to the UK arrives at Port of Tilbury near London

1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)

• 1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
• 1948 WNAC (now WHDH) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1950 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off Chick Pieretti, in a 8-2 victory over Cleveland

1952 Louis Braille's remains are transferred to the Panthéon in Paris, while his hands are kept as relics at Coupvray cemetery [1]

• 1952 Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
• 1954 Australian middle distance runner John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0) and 1500m (3:41.8+) in Turku, Finland

1955 Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"

• 1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
• 1956 German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
• 1956 Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters
• 1957 Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister

1957 John Diefenbaker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada

1957 Louis St. Laurent resigns as Prime Minister of Canada, ending the longest uninterrupted run at the federal level in Canadian history

• 1958 French franc devalues
• 1960 German sprinter Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
• 1962 USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 75,190 m

1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of Roman Catholic Church, succeeding John XXIII

1964 Byron De La Beckwith arrested for the murder of civil rights activist Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later

1964 Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning hurls a perfect game as Philadelphia beats the New York Mets, 6-0 on Fathers Day at Shea Stadium

• 1964 Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney, disappear after being released from a Mississippi jail, later found murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan

1966 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", film directorial debut of Mike Nichols, based on Edward Albee's 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress, 1967)

1966 Queen Juliana opens the Coen Tunnel in Amsterdam

• 1967 MLB New York Yankees take 5-3 lead in 11th, but lose to Boston 6-5, in first game of doubleheader; in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th, but lose 6-3

1968 US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren announces he will resign once a successor is found

• 1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)

1969 Dmitri Shostakovich's 14th Symphony premieres in Moscow

• 1969 John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
• 1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
• 1970 Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892

1970 FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Brazil and Pelé become the first team and player to win the World Cup three times, defeating Italy 4-1 in front of 107,412 spectators

1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert in McCrea, Louisiana; performers included Chuck Berry; Stephen Stills; WAR; John Sebastian; and Delaney and Bonnie

• 1971 International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia
• 1971 MLB Cleveland Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf

1975 British rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow

• 1975 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Lord's: West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win inaugural final; Player of the match: Clive Lloyd (WI) 102 (85)
• 1976 Italian General Election; Enrico Berlinguer's Communist party win their greatest-ever share of the vote (34.4%)

1977 Bülent Ecevit forms a minority government in Turkey which lasts only 1 month

1977 Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman enters prison

1977 Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel's 6th Prime Minister

1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical "Evita," starring Elaine Paige, premieres at the Prince Edward Theatre in London

• 1978 The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack
• 1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
• 1981 Bread riots in Casablanca, Morocco, kill 66 people (government figure vs opposition estimate of 637)

1981 Donald Fagen and Walter Becker disband their rock group Steely Dan

• 1981 Socialists and communists win French parliamentary election

1982 John Hinckley, Jr is found not guilty by reason of insanity of 1981 attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan

1982 Paul McCartney releases single "Take It Away"

• 1983 Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss

1983 Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery

• 1985 American, Brazilian, and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele

1986 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, signs 3-year contract to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals

• 1986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)

1986 President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments

• 1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)

1987 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant

• 1988 American rock band The Rascals begin their 1st tour in 20 years

1988 Many killed during demonstration against Burmese Dictator Ne Win in Rangoon

• 1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium

1989 MLB New York Yankees trade outfielder Rickey Henderson to Oakland A's for eric Plunk, Greg Cadaret, and Luis Polonia

• 1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
• 1990 7.7 Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran, killing between 35,000 and 50,000 people
• 1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!"

1990 Little Richard [Penniman] gets a star on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame

• 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham (30), who survives
• 1990 Parliaments of West Germany and East Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
• 1990 US House of Representatives votes 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
• 1991 Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Austrian province of Karinthia

1991 New York Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy are elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame

1991 P. V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister of India as head of a Congress Party minority government

1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves the last theorem of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat after 356 years, solving the world's most difficult math problem

• 1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

1994 German tennis superstar Steffi Graf becomes first defending champion to lose in the 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to American Lorrie McNeal)

1997 NHL Draft: Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL) center Joe Thornton first pick by Boston Bruins

• 1997 Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks
• 1998 "Don't Be Cruel" second studio album by Bobby Brown is released (Grammy Award Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, 1990)
• 2000 Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote

2000 US Senator Daniel K. Inouye and 19 other Japanese-American WWII veterans of the 442nd Regiment belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton [1]

• 2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen

2001 Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp

• 2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean lasts for 4 minutes 56 seconds
• 2002 Disney animated movie "Lilo & Stitch" released, written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

2003 "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" the 5th book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide in English

• 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight

2005 Billy Corgan releases "TheFutureEmbrace", his first solo album

• 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra
• 2009 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Lord's, London: Pakistan wins their first title beating Sri Lanka by 8 wickets; Player of the Series: Sri Lankan all-rounder Tillakaratne Dilshan (317 runs)
• 2009 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Lord's: England 86/4 win inaugural event; beat New Zealand 85; England's Katherine Brunt takes 3 for 6
• 2012 A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
• 2012 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
• 2013 15 people are killed and 20 are injured after a suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan
• 2014 Qhapaq Ñan, the Andean Road System of the Inca Empire, 30,000km long (18,600 miles) through six countries, granted World Heritage status by UNESCO [1]
• 2015 Hackers ground 1400 passengers by attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in Poland
• 2015 Ninety-four people die and forty-five are hospitalized after drinking moonshine in Mumbai, India

2017 "Transformers: The Last Knight," starring Mark Wahlberg and directed by Michael Bay, is released in the US and goes on to gross $605 million worldwide

• 2017 In landmark case Israeli woman wins sexism case against airline El Al after asked to change seat away from a man
• 2017 Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu outed after losing no-confidence vote 241-7
• 2018 EU imposes tariffs on US goods worth $3.2 billion in response to US tariffs
• 2018 NBA Draft: Arizona center Deandre Ayton first pick by Phoenix Suns
• 2018 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden becomes the second world leader to give birth in office, to a daughter

2018 Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is charged with fraud

• 2019 NHL Draft: US NTDP center Jack Hughes first pick by New Jersey Devils

2019 UK police called to house of leader contender Boris Johnson over alleged altercation with his girlfriend

2020 Kurt Cobain's guitar during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged show sells for a record $6 million

• 2020 New archaeological discovery announced near Stonehenge of a large circle of shafts surrounding a village 2500 BC, largest prehistoric structure in Britain
• 2020 Saudi Arabia bans international visitors from making the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage in 2020 due to COVID-19
• 2020 WHO records a new record number of new daily cases of COVID-19 - 183,020, with 116,000 coming from North and South America
• 2021 Carl Nassib becomes the first openly gay player in the NFL in a post on Instagram
• 2021 Colombia's COVID-19 recorded death toll passes 100,000, the tenth country in the world to do so
• 2021 New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is the first openly transgender athlete to be selected for the Olympics
• 2021 Swedish government of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven toppled after a no confidence vote for the first time in Swedish history

2022 LA jury finds Bill Cosby liable for sexual assault of a 16 year-old in 1975 at the Playboy mansion, awards victim 500,000 [1]

• 2022 Law enforcement's response to the Uvalde school shooting was an "abject failure" says Texas's public safety chief Steven McCraw in testimony at a Senate hearing [1]

2022 MLB Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani has career high 8 RBI in 11-inning 12-11 loss to Kansas City Royals in Anaheim, California

• 2022 Severe flooding affects southern China, including Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, with areas experiencing their highest rainfall since 1961, forcing authorities to evacuate tens of thousands [1]
• 2022 South Korea successfully launches its first satellites into orbit with its homegrown rocket Nuri, from Naro Space Center [1]
• 2023 US approves chicken made from animal cells - the country's first lab-grown meat, aimed at reducing harm to animals and the environment [1]
• 2024 Landmark case in Namibia rules colonial laws banning same-sex between men are unconstitutional [1]
• 2024 Ronaldo, a 6-foot Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor, gives birth to 14 babies in Portsmouth, England, despite no contact with another snake, by parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction) [1]
• 2025 The Netherlands returns 119 sculptures from the Benin Bronzes collection that were looted from the Kingdom of Benin (present-day Nigeria) by colonial forces [1]

• 20 Jun
• Historical Events Calendar
• Jun 22

• 

  Misery of The King's Executioner

  June 20, 1649
• 

  'Gorgeous Gussie' Shocks Wimbledon

  June 20, 1949
• 

  St Paul's Defies Bombing Conflagration

  June 21, 1675
• 

  Deadly Quest For The Northern Passage

  June 22, 1611

• June

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15
• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19
• 20
• 21
• 22
• 23
• 24
• 25
• 26
• 27
• 28
• 29
• 30

123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930 SummaryEventsBirthdaysDeathsWeddingsFilm & TVMusicSport

• Summary
• Events
• Birthdays
• Deaths
• Weddings
• Film & TV
• Music
• Sport

Full Events Calendar

• All Days 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
• All Months JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
• All TypesEventsBirthdaysDeathsWeddings
• Search

Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.

• All Days 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
• All Months JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
• All TypesEventsBirthdaysDeathsWeddings
• Search