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The following events took place on June 21. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 47 events. Showing 31 - 47.

• 1945

  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.
• 1952

  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.
• 1957

  Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first female Cabinet Minister.
• 1963

  Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
• 1964

  Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
• 1970

  Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
• 1973

  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.
• 1977

  Bülent Ecevit, of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
• 1982

  John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• 2000

  Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the ‘promotion’of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
• 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.
• 2004

  SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• 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).
• 2006

  Pluto’s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
• 2009

  Greenland assumes self-rule.
• 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 other missing.
• 2013

  A suicide bomber kills 15 and injures 20 in a Shi'ite mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

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