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June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 193 days remaining. June 21 is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, so today is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere, and the shortest in the southern hemisphere.

Events:

1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1940 - France surrenders to Germany.
1964 - Three Civil Rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Cheney and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Births:

356 BC - Alexander the Great
1731 - Martha Washington
1884 - Claude Auchinleck, British Field Marshal (+ 1981)
1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, architect (+ 1979)
1903 - Al Hirschfield, cartoonist
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1964 (+ 1980)
1912 - Mary McCarthy, writer (+ 1989)
1919 - Gower Champion, dancer and choreographer (+ 1980)
1921 - Judy Holliday, actress (+ 1965)
1921 - Jane Russell, actress
1925 - Maureen Stapleton, actress
1934 - Wulf Kristen, writer and recipient of the Heinrich Mann Prize 1989
1935 - Francoise Sagan, writer
1944 - Ray Davies of The Kinks
1951 - Nils Lofgren, musician
1973 - Juliette Lewis, actress
1982 - Prince William of Wales (son to Prince Charles and Princess Diana)

Deaths:

1527 - Niccolo Machiavelli, historian and political author, age 53
1652 - Inigo Jones, architect
1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
1934 - Thorne Smith, author ("Topper" books and others)
1964 - Andrew Goodman, civil rights activist
1964 - James Cheney, civil rights activist
1964 - Mickey Schwerner, civil rights activist
1970 - Sukarno, Indonesian President
2001 - Carroll O'Connor, actor, age 76
2001 - John Lee Hooker, blues musician, age 83

Holidays and observancese:

Summer solstice (Northern hemisphere) and Winter solstice (Southern hemisphere)

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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