All Events

Historical Events on June 21

  • Constitution of the United States

    1788

    New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the ninth state in the United States.

  • Greek War of Independence

    1824

    Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.

  • Empress Dowager Cixi

    1900

    Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.

  • Winnipeg general strike

    1919

    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.

  • Tobruk

    1942

    World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.

  • Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

    1964

    Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

  • Khobar Towers

    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.

  • Nix (moon)

    2006

    Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.

  • Greenland

    2009

    Greenland assumes self-rule.

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Famous Deaths on June 21

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