June 21st

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The June 21 , the 172nd day of the Gregorian calendar (173rd in leap years ), thus remain still 193 days until the end of the year. 21 (or 20 ) in June the sun is at noon at the Tropic of Cancer in the zenith and is at the northern Arctic Circle at night not. This day is therefore the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice .

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Events

Politics and world events

1339: Battle of Laupen
1621: The Old Town Execution
1807: Alexander I.
1807: Napoleon
1908: Demonstration leadership of the WSPU
1964: Edgar Ray Killen

economy

1834: McCormick's "Virginia Reaper"

science and technology

1931: Rail zeppelin

Culture

1868: Hans von Bülow

religion

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

1851: Adolf Anderssen
1997: First season of the WNBA

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .

Born

Before the 18th century

Bolesław V. (* 1226)

18th century

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (* 1732)

19th century

1801-1850

Georg von Neumayer (* 1826)

1851-1900

August Wilhelm Schynse (* 1857)
Lluís Companys i Jover (* 1882)
Kurt C. Volkhart (* 1890)

20th century

1901-1925

Jean-Paul Sartre (* 1905)
Mary McCarthy (born 1912)
Jane Russell (born 1921)

1926-1950

Mike McCormack (born 1930)
Liz Mohn (* 1941)
Shirin Ebadi (* 1947)

1951-1975

Benazir Bhutto (* 1953)
Joko Widodo (* 1961)
Yingluck Shinawatra (* 1967)
Mickie Krause (* 1970)

1976-2000

Erica Durance (* 1978)
Lana Del Rey (* 1985)
Sandra Perković (* 1990)

Died

Before the 15th century

Wenceslas II of Bohemia († 1305)

15th to 17th century

Niccolò Machiavelli († 1527)
Václav Budovec z Budova († 1621)

18th century

Albrecht Friedrich of Brandenburg-Schwedt († 1731)

19th century

Justus Erich Walbaum († 1939)
Anders Jonas Ångström († 1874)

20th century

1901-1950

Bertha von Suttner († 1914)
Walter Hasenclever († 1940)

1951-2000

Johannes Stark († 1957)
Sukarno († 1970)
Theodor Ahrenberg († 1989)
Gerhard Wendland († 1996)

21st century

John Lee Hooker († 2001)
Georg Danzer († 2007)
Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski († 2015)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .


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