Also on June 21
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Día Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (CL) · Father's Day (VE) · National Aboriginal Day (CA) · National Day of Indigenous Peoples (CL)
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2012 — A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing... ↗
- 2009 — Greenland assumes self-rule. ↗
- 2006 — Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra. ↗
- 2005 — Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been acquitted for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted... ↗
- 2004 — SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1997 — Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter
- 1997 — Derrius Guice, American football player
- 1994 — Başak Eraydın, Turkish tennis player
- 1991 — Gaël Kakuta, French footballer
- 1990 — Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player