History Events on June 21

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

#Halifax,_Nova_Scotia

Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

#Old_Town_Square_execution

The United States captures Guam from Spain.

#Capture_of_Guam

A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).

#Vandalic_War

World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.

#Bombardment_of_Fort_Stevens

The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.

#Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

#SpaceShipOne

Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.

#Ellen_Fairclough

In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.

#Montreal

The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

#Polytechnic_University_of_the_Philippines

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

#Greek_War_of_Independence

New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

#New_Hampshire

Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried 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).

#Edgar_Ray_Killen

Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimy?s, was forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.

#Sengoku_period

World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.

#Battle_of_Okinawa

In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade R?dulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.

#Wallachian_Revolution_of_1848

Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.

#Maniots

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

#Boxer_Rebellion

Greenland assumes self-rule.

#Greenland

American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.

#American_Civil_War

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

#Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police

One-year conscription comes into force in France.

#Conscription

Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.

#Külüg_Khan

Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria.

#Peninsular_War

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.

#Alexandria,_Virginia

The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opened at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.

#Tim_Rice

King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.

#Flight_to_Varennes

Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.

#Irish_Rebellion_of_1798

French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.

#Kingdom_of_France

World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.

#World_War_II

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

#Tobruk

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

#Pluto

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

#Civil_rights_movement

A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.

Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that American flag-burning was a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.

John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.

Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.

An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.

Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.

James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.