It happened on this day, June 21
events:
217 BC – Carthage forces led by Hannibal ambush and defeat the Roman army led by Gaius Flaminius at the Battle of Lake Trasmania during the Second Punic War.
1318 – The “Battle of Al-Bireh” takes place in Granada between the Castilian Christians and the Muslims, and the result of the battle is the victory of the Muslims.
1582 – Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga commits suicide at Honno-ji temple in Kyoto.
1621 – 27 Czech nobles are executed in Prague's Old Town Square after the Battle of White Mountain.
1749 – The city of Halifax is founded in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
1788 – The State of New Hampshire ratifies the U.S. Constitution, becoming the ninth state to ratify it. The Constitution thus becomes a legal document governing American lands.
1824 – Egyptian forces capture the “Greek island of Psara” located in the Aegean Sea during the Greek War of Independence.
1898 – The United States seizes the island of Guam from Spain with little resistance from the island's garrison.
1854 – The Victoria Cross is first awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund, Åland Islands.
1940 – German forces control all French territory during World War II.
1941 – Capture of Damascus by British and Free French forces. Over the next few days, the Allies expanded their control over Syria and Vichy French government forces surrendered under the Armistice of Acre, signed on July 12.
1942 – General Erwin Rommel attacks British forces in Tobruk, Libya. This attack ends with victory over them and the surrender of more than thirty thousand soldiers to the German forces.
1958 – Declaration of the Republic in Mauritania.
1963 – The French government announces the withdrawal of its naval forces from the NATO fleet.
1976 – Arab deterrent forces begin arriving in Lebanon after the Arab League decides to send them to end the fighting there.
1981 – The assassination of Dr. Mustafa Chamran, physicist and politician, one of the founders of the Lebanese Amal movement and Iran's first Minister of Defense after the Islamic Revolution in the Iran-Iraq War.
2003 – The Israeli army assassinates Qassami leader Abdullah al-Qawasmi, the most wanted man in the Israeli occupation at the time.
2004 – SpaceShipOne landed safely after making the first private manned flight into space, reaching the upper layers of the atmosphere.
2005 – George Hawi is assassinated in the Lebanon car bombing.
2009 – Greenland gains autonomy under the Danish crown.
2011 – The United Nations General Assembly re-elects UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for a second term beginning January 1, 2012.
2016 – The Egyptian administrative court invalidates the concession of the island of Tiran by the Egyptian government to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which took place last April.
2017 – The destruction of the Al-Nuri Mosque and its historic Al-Hadba minaret during the battles to liberate Mosul from ISIS control.
✴️ The King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, relieves Prince Muhammad bin Nayef of all his duties and declares Muhammad bin Salman crown prince.
2020 – Solar eclipse observed in most parts of Africa and Asia, as well as parts of southeastern Europe.
2021 – Armenia's ruling Civil Contract Party, led by Nikol Pashinyan, wins a majority in early elections to the National Assembly of Armenia.
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Births:
598 – Theodore I.
1002 – Leo IX.
1528 – Mary of Austria.
1535 – Leonhart Rauwolf, German physician and botanist.
1639 – Incris Mather, American author and minister.
1646 – Marie-Françoise de Savoie.
1730 – Motori Norinaga, Japanese scholar and poet.
1759 – Alexander Jay Dulles, American lawyer, politician, and sixth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
1764 – Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician.
1774 – Daniel Tompkins, American lawyer, politician, and sixth vice president of the United States.
1884 – Claude Oakenleck, English soldier.
1887 – Muhammad Azza Darwaza, Levantine Arab nationalist thinker, writer and activist.
1891 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect.
1892 – Suleiman Naguib, Egyptian actor.
1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 (he declined).
1914 – William Vickery, Canadian economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1996.
1925 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian Prime Minister.
1929 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer.
1940 – Farouk Flux, Egyptian actor.
1947 – Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer and human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
1951 – Jim Douglas, American politician.
1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1954 – Abdel Rahman Rashad, director of Egyptian radio.
1955 – Michel Platini, French footballer.
1959 – Zuhair Ramadan, Syrian actor.
1964 – Muhammad Khair Al-Jarrah, Syrian actor.
1967 – Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand.
1969 – Jamaan Al-Ruwaiei, Bahraini actor and director.
1970 – Gebran Bassil, Lebanese politician.
1972 – Nermin El-Feki, Egyptian actress.
1973 – Juliette Lewis, American actress.
1978 – Cristiano Lopatelli, Italian footballer.
1979 – Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer.
1982 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Rima Al-Sheikh, Syrian actress.
1985 – Chris Allen, American singer. Lana Del Rey, American singer.
1987 – Sebastian Prodel, Austrian footballer.
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Death:
870 – Abu Ishaq Muhammad al-Muhtadi Billah, Abbasid caliph
1037 – Ibn Sina was a Muslim scholar, poet, astronomer, physician and physicist.
1208 – Philip of Swabia.
1305 – Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia.
1377 – King Edward III, king of the United Kingdom.
1527 – Nicolas Machiavelli, Italian philosopher.
1591 – Luigi Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit.
1874 – Anders Ångström, Swedish physicist.
1876 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, eighth president of Mexico.
1981 – Mustafa Chamran, physicist, politician and first Iranian Minister of Defense after the Islamic Revolution and one of the founders of the Lebanese Amal movement.
1885 – Muhammad Ahmed Al Mahdi, Sudanese ruler.
1908 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian musician.
1914 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian peace activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905.
1929 – Muhammad bin Hussein Al-Khalifa, Saudi jurist and teacher.
1932 – Hafez Ibrahim, Egyptian poet.
1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919.
1960 – Ahmed Al-Raml, Iraqi poet and religious preacher Jaafari.
1967 – Amin Saeed, Syrian journalist and historian.
1970 – Ahmed Soekarno, President of Indonesia.
1986 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese musician.
1988 – Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Mulhim, Saudi jurist, university professor and poet.
2001 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian artist.
2003 – Abdullah Al-Qawasmi, Palestinian mujahid and military commander.
2005 – George Hawi, Lebanese politician.
2012 – Ramaz Shengelia, Georgian footballer.
2020 – Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi footballer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ National holiday in Greenland.
⬅️ Summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and winter solstice in the southern hemisphere.
