21st June
Father’s Day -
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/fathers ... y-in-june/
National Turkey Lovers' Day
National Day of the Gong -
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/ ... ng-june-21
NATIONAL PEACHES ‘N’ CREAM DAY
GO SKATEBOARDING DAY
NATIONAL ARIZONA DAY
NATIONAL DAYLIGHT APPRECIATION DAY
NATIONAL SELFIE DAY
International Day of Yoga
World Hydrography Day
World Music Day
A selection of events from History
1734 In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony
1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
1868 Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg" premieres in Munich
1879 Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful "F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
1913 Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands
1921 The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations
1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia
1948 HMT Empire Windrush with the first 800 emigrants from the West Indies to the UK arrives at Port of Tilbury near London
1966 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", directed by Mike Nichols and based on the 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1967)
1975 Elton John, The Eagles and The Beach Boys play Wembley Stadium
1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical "Evita" premieres in London
1978 The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"
1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity
1992 Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham and Allan Lamb
2003 "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" the 5th book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide in English