June 21 birthdays & history

Famous people born on June 21

• 1905Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author
• 1985Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter
• 1953Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1979Chris Pratt, American actor
• 1983Edward Snowden, American activist and academic
• 1947Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1955Michel Platini, French footballer and manager
• 1935Françoise Sagan, French author and playwright
• 1962Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950Anne Carson, Canadian poet and academic

What happened on June 21

• 1788New Hampshire ratified the U.S. Constitution and was admitted as the ninth U.S. state.
• 1890Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay was published.
• 1915The 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 African-Americans.
• 1948The Manchester Baby, the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first program.
• 1952The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
• 1963Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
• 1973The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the landmark case Miller v. California, establishing the Miller test for determining what is obscene material.
• 1973The Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino is inaugurated in Arica, Chile.
• 1978The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
• 1993Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-57 to retrieve the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) satellite. It is also the first shuttle mission to carry the Spacehab module.
• 2000Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
• 2004SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

Also observed on June 21

• Father's Day (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Uganda, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates)
• Go Skateboarding Day
• International Yoga Day (international)
• National Indigenous Peoples Day (Canada)
• Solstice-related observances (see also June 20): Day of Private Reflection (Northern Ireland)
• Solstice-related observances (see also June 20): National Day (Greenland)