Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 21

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 * 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 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| Gideon Sundback |d|1954| Joko Widodo |b|1961| Maureen Connolly |d|1969| William, Prince of Wales|b|1982| Lana Del Rey |b|1985| Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy |b|1986| Soad Hosny |d|2001| Wendy Saddington |d|2013|

June 21: Fête de la Musique; International Day of Yoga; National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada; Xiazhi in China (2024)


 * 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.