21 June
Notable Births
Lil Bub
b. 2011
Internet celebrity cat (2011–2019)
Alexandra Obolentseva
b. 2001
Russian chess player (born 2001)
Dylan Brown
b. 2000
New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Ky Rodwell
b. 1999
Australian rugby league footballer
Rebecca Black
b. 1997
American YouTuber, singer, songwriter, and DJ (born 1997)
Derrius Guice
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Tyrone May
b. 1996
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Scottie Scheffler
b. 1996
American professional golfer (born 1996)
Başak Eraydın
b. 1994
Turkish tennis player (born 1994)
Hungrybox
b. 1993
Argentine-American professional esports player
Max Schneider
b. 1992
American singer (born 1992)
Hussein El Shahat
b. 1992
Egyptian footballer (born 1992)
Gaël Kakuta
b. 1991
Footballer (born 1991)
Min (South Korean singer)
b. 1991
South Korean singer (born 1991)
Ričardas Berankis
b. 1990
Lithuanian tennis player
Lana Del Rey
b. 1985
American singer-songwriter (born 1985)
Irene van Dyk
b. 1972
New Zealand and South Africa netball international
Kathy Mattea
b. 1959
American musician, activist (born 1959)
Wade Phillips
b. 1947
American football coach (born 1947)
Mary McCarthy (author)
b. 1912
American novelist and political activist (1912–1989)
Notable Deaths
Frederick Crews
d. 2024
American essayist and literary critic (1933–2024)
Winnie Ewing
d. 2023
Scottish politician (1929–2023)
Charles Krauthammer
d. 2018
American psychiatrist and journalist (1950–2018)
Darryl Hamilton
d. 2015
American baseball player and analyst (1964–2015)
Veijo Meri
d. 2015
Finnish writer
Remo Remotti
d. 2015
Italian actor, playwright, artist, and poet
Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
d. 2015
East German politician (1932–2015)
Gunther Schuller
d. 2015
American musician (1925–2015)
Yozo Ishikawa
d. 2014
Japanese politician (1925–2014)
Walter Kieber
d. 2014
Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1974 to 1978
James P. Gordon
d. 2013
American physicist
Elliott Reid
d. 2013
American actor (1920–2013)
Abid Hussain
d. 2012
Indian economist, civil servant and diplomat (1926–2012)
Sunil Janah
d. 2012
Indian-American photojournalist and documentary photographer
Anna Schwartz
d. 2012
American economist (1915–2012)
Russell Ash
d. 2010
British writer (1946-2010)
İlhan Selçuk
d. 2010
Turkish journalist, lawyer
Scott Kalitta
d. 2008
American drag racer
Inigo Jones
d. 1652
English architect (1573–1652)
Niccolò Machiavelli
d. 1527
Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
On This Day in History
All 50 ›
2025
A hot air balloon catches fire mid-flight and crashes in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil, killing 8 of the 21 on board.
Hot air balloon
2012
A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
2012 Indian Ocean migrant boat disaster
2012
An Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport, killing 11.
Indonesian Air Force
2009
Greenland assumes self-rule.
Greenland
2006
Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
Pluto
2006
A Yeti Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashes at Jumla Airport in Nepal, killing nine people.
Yeti Airlines
2005
Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
Edgar Ray Killen
2004
SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
SpaceShipOne
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.
Alexandria, Virginia
2000
Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
Section 28
1993
Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-57 to retrieve the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) satellite. It is also the first shuttle mission to carry the Spacehab module.
Space Shuttle Endeavour
1989
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
Supreme Court of the United States
1985
Braathens SAFE Flight 139 is hijacked on approach to Oslo Airport, Fornebu. Special forces arrest the hijacker and there are no fatalities.
Braathens SAFE Flight 139
1982
John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
John Hinckley Jr.
1978
The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
Tim Rice
1973
The Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino is inaugurated in Arica, Chile.
Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino
1973
In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.
Miller v. California
1970
Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
Penn Central Transportation Company
1964
Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Civil rights movement
1963
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
1963 conclave