National Day Of The Gong June 21

Public Holidays on June 21

• 🌍 Día Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (Chile)
• 🌍 Father's Day (Venezuela)
• 🌍 National Aboriginal Day (Canada)
• 🌍 National Day of Indigenous Peoples (Chile)

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On This Day in History — June 21

• 2012 — A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
• 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 of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
• 2004 — SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• 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.

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Notable Births on June 21

• 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
• 1990 — Håvard Nordtveit, Norwegian footballer

Notable Deaths on June 21

• 2016 — Pierre Lalonde, Canadian television host and singer (b. 1941)
• 2015 — Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1964)
• 2015 — Veijo Meri, Finnish author and poet (b. 1928)
• 2015 — Remo Remotti, Italian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1924)
• 2015 — Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German soldier and politician (b. 1932)
• 2015 — Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (b. 1925)