Who was born on June 21 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Day of Yoga.
🇺🇳 Day of summer solstice.
🌏 World Humanism Day.
🌏 International Selfie Day.
🌏 International Skateboarding Day.
🌏 World Hydrography Day.
🌏 World Music Day.
🌏 World Giraffe Day.
🌏 International T-shirt Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇱🇧 Lebanon, 🇵🇸 Palestine, 🇯🇴 Jordan, 🇸🇾 Syria, 🇪🇬 Egypt, 🇺🇬 Uganda, 🇦🇪 UAE – Father’s Day.
🇬🇧 Great Britain – Prince of Wales’ birthday.
🇺🇸 USA – Anne and Samantha Day.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Scotland – Scottish Flag Day.
🇬🇧 Great Britain, 🇮🇪 Ireland – Thinking Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – National Indigenous Peoples Day.
🇨🇺 Cuba – Arbor Day.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Agriculture Day.
🇧🇴 Bolivia – Andean-Amazonian New Year.
🇬🇱 Greenland – National Day.
🇹🇬 Togo – Martyrs’ Day.
🇨🇱 Chile – National Day of Indigenous Peoples.
🇨🇦 Canada – National Aboriginal Day.
🇫🇷 France – Music Festival.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of canine divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
👉 EVENTS:
– 524 – The Burgundians defeat the Frankish coalition at the Battle of Wezerons.
– 1037 – Encyclopedist, astronomer, philosopher Ibn Sina died.
– 1266 – The siege of Keniluert Castle begins.
– 1633 – Galileo Galilei was imprisoned in the Palace of the Inquisition.
– 1768 – the revolting Gaydamaks organized the massacre of the Ottomans.
– 1788 – the Russo-Swedish war began.
– 1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and becomes the ninth state of the United States.
– 1844 – Russian troops occupied the capital of Ilisu Sultanate.
– 1893 – The first ferris wheel appeared at the Chicago exhibition.
– 1898 – Guam was incorporated into the United States.
– 1918 – the first issue of the socio-political newspaper “Voice of Uzbekistan” was published (originally published in 1918 under the name “Ishtirokyun”, since 1991 under the current name, PDP newspaper).
– 1925 – taxis began to ply on the streets of Moscow.
– 1934 – The Surname Law was adopted, which obliges every Turkish citizen to have a surname.
– 1948 – a new currency, the German mark, was introduced in the GFR.
– 1956 – R-5M – the first Soviet missile with a nuclear warhead was adopted in the armed forces of the USSR.
– 1982 – In France, it was first celebrated as “World Music Day”. After this day, June 21 was accepted as music day all over the world.
– 1990 – A 7.7-magnitude earthquake occurred in Iran, killing more than 35,000 people and injuring more than 100,000 people. More than 500,000 people were left homeless.
– 2004 – The world’s first privately manned spacecraft – SpaceShipOne – went into space for the first time.
– 2004 – militants led by Shamil Basayev launched an armed attack on Ingushetia.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1730 – Motoori Nobinaga (1801) – Japanese science and culture figure.
– 1781 – Simeon Denis Poisson (1840) – French mathematician, physicist, founder of modern mathematical physics.
– 1840 – Arkady Sereteli (1915) – Georgian poet.
– 1882 – Kent Rockwell (1971) – American writer, artist and public figure.
– 1905 – Jean Paul Sartre (1980) – French philosopher, writer, playwright.
– 1910 – Alexander Tvardovsky (1971) – Soviet poet, writer, journalist, public figure.
– 1921 – Judy Holliday (1965) – American film actress and singer.
– 1921 – Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell (2011) – American actress, model, singer.
– 1941 – Valery Zolotukhin (2013) – theater and film actor, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1953 – Benazir Bhutto – Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990, 1993-1996).
– 1955 – Zamira Davletmuratova – opera and ballet artist, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1992).
– 1955 – Michel Platini – French football player, European champion, coach.
– 1962 – Viktor Soy (1990) – Soviet musician, songwriter, founder of rock band “Kino”.
– 1971 – Anett Olzon – Swedish singer.
– 1973 – Zuzana Kaputova – Slovak politician, lawyer, currently the president of Slovakia (since 2019).
– 1979 – Chris Pratt – American actor.
– 1982 – Prince William – Duke of Cambridge, Prince of Great Britain.
– 1983 – Edward Snowden – an American computer expert, dissident, former employee of the US Central Intelligence Agency and the US National Security Agency.
– 1997 – Rebecca Black is an American pop singer.