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June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 193 days remaining.

June 21 is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, so is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere, and the shortest in the southern hemisphere.

Events

1600-1899

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.

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

1900-1999

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.

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.

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.

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 guily 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.