Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 21

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  Presentation of the Congressional Medal of Honor to Asian-American World War II veterans
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  Flag of Greenland
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  Ellen Fairclough
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  SpaceShipOne
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  Charles Davis Lucas
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  Knockcroghery railway station
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  Knockcroghery clay pipe

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Midsummer festivities (Northern Hemisphere); Winter solstice festivals (Southern Hemisphere);	Midsummer: refimprove section/citations needed; WS repaired but doesn't make sense to only post half of this line
1582 – Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyō, was forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.	refimprove
1734 – Marie-Joseph Angélique, a black slave, was tortured and hanged after having been convicted of starting a fire that burned much of Old Montreal.	Lot of uncited stuff
1798 – Over 15,000 British soldiers launched an attack on Vinegar Hill, the largest camp and headquarters of the County Wexford United Irish rebels, marking a turning point in the Irish Rebellion.	needs more footnotes
1813 – Peninsular War: The Marquess of Wellington's combined British, Portuguese, and Spanish allied army defeated the French near Vitoria, Spain.	needs more footnotes
1851 – Germen chess master Adolf Anderssen defeated Lionel Kieseritzky in the Immortal Game, using bold sacrificial play.	Looks to be sourced to a discussion forum
1854 – Crimean War: During the Battle of Bomarsund, Irish sailor Charles Davis Lucas threw an artillery shell off his ship before it exploded, earning him the first Victoria Cross.	Requiring clean-up: Druminargal House is claimed to be in Poyntzpass, but its address is in Scarva
1942 – Second World War: The Panzerarmee Afrika soundly defeated an Allied force in the Battle of Gazala in Libya, considered the greatest victory of Erwin Rommel's career.	unreferenced section
1964 – Three civil rights workers were murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi, U.S.	refimprove section, lots of CN tags elsewhere (11)
1985 – Greenland officially adopted its own flag, adding support to its independence movement from Denmark.	unreferenced section
2000 – The controversial British law known as Section 28, prohibiting the "promotion" of homosexuality, was repealed.	also appears on May 24
2004 – SpaceShipOne completed the first privately funded human spaceflight.	SS1: refimprove section; 15P: refimprove
June solstice (14:54 UTC, 2023);	Article has almost no text and what it does have is uncited
Pope Leo IX |b|1002|	Date not cited

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• 1128 – William Clito defeated Thierry of Alsace in a battle over the succession to the title of Count of Flanders.
• 1529 – War of the League of Cognac: The French army under Francis de Bourbon was destroyed in Lombardy, Italy, by the Spanish army.
• 1575 – French Wars of Religion: Catholic forces defeated an armed group of Huguenots attempting to capture Besançon, from which they had previously been expelled.
• 1788 – New Hampshire ratified the U.S. Constitution and was admitted as the ninth U.S. state.
• 1826 – Greek War of Independence: A combined Egyptian and Ottoman army began an invasion of the Mani Peninsula, but were initially held off by the Maniots at the fortifications of Vergas.
• 1864 – New Zealand Wars: A British victory against the Māori King Movement brought the Tauranga campaign to an end.
• 1890 – Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay was published.
• 1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow to prevent the ships from being seized and divided amongst the Allied Powers.
• 1921 – Irish War of Independence: Most of the village of Knockcroghery in County Roscommon was burned by British forces.
• 1940 – World War II: The main offensive of the unsuccessful Italian invasion of France began.
• 1957 – Ellen Fairclough (pictured) became the first woman to be appointed to the cabinet of Canada.
• 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the landmark case Miller v. California, establishing the Miller test for determining what is obscene material.
• 2000 – President Bill Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to 22 Asian Americans, mostly from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, for actions during World War II.

• Born/died this day: | Rodulf |d|866| Niccolò Machiavelli |d|1527| Salomon Schweigger |d|1622| Increase Mather |b|1639| Charles Edward Horn |b|1786| Friedrich Fröbel |d|1852|Max Wolf |b|1863| Clara Immerwahr |b|1870| Claude Auchinleck |b|1884| D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson |d|1948| Gideon Sundback |d|1954| Maureen Connolly |d|1969| Sukarno |d|1970| Richard Raaphorst|b|1971| Chris Pratt |b|1979| William, Prince of Wales|b|1982| Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy |b|1986| Wong Ho Leng|d|2014|

June 21: Fête de la Musique; International Day of Yoga; National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada; Xiazhi in China (2026) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 217 BC – Second Punic War: The Carthaginians under Hannibal ambushed a Roman army at the Battle of Lake Trasimene, capturing or killing 25,000 men.
• 1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government in present-day Romania.
• 1898 – In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the United States captured Guam from Spain.
• 1919 – During a general strike in Winnipeg, Canada, members of the Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a crowd of strikers, armed with clubs and revolvers.
• 1948 – The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first program.