The June 21st is the 172e Jour of the Année (173e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 1667 : Pose first stone of the Royal Observatoire with Paris, the Summer solstice. There Colbert proposes with the Astronome Dutch Christiaan Huygens and with the Franco - Italy N Jean-Dominique Cassini of the “astronomical” emoluments to come to work, which they will not be able to refuse.

• 1777 : Mister, brother of the king Louis XVI and future king Louis XVIII, assists with Toulouse with a meeting of the Académie of the floral Plays and hears the reading of three odes of Géraud Valet of Réganhac, main floral be-plays since 1759.
• 1790 : Avignon request its fastening with the France.
• 1791 : Arrest of Louis XVI with Varennes
• 1846: Establishment of the Pope Black and white IX.
• 1848 : Dissolution of the national Workshops with Paris.
• 1884 : The French newspaper the Morning leaves for the first time in the kiosks.

20th century

• 1907 : The French Arnaud Massy gains the British Open of golf to Hoylake.

• 1919 : The German navy scuttles its fleet gathered in the port of Scapa Flow with the the United Kingdom.

• 1941 : Hitler undertakes in the night the invasion of the Soviet Union.

• 1943 : Arrest of Jean Moulin to Caluire-and-To cook (the Rhone), in the suburbs of Lyon.

• 1948 : Presentation of the first Long-playing record by the discs Columbia with the the United States.

• 1973 : Paris: Violent one confrontations at a public meeting on the topic “ Halt with wild immigration ” with the Room of Reciprocity organized by the new Order.

• 1981 : French legislative Elections: the Socialist party obtains the absolute majority with the National Assembly.

• 1990 :

• a seism in Iran makes officially from 35.000 to 36.000 dead.
• the first Stock Market of Europe of the East is inaugurated with Budapest.

21e century

• 2006 : First visit of Madonna to the Canada for 13 years, it has given 2 spectacles to the Center Bell of Montreal. The 30.000 tickets available were sold in 40 minutes.

Births

• 1226 : Boleslas V Modest the, duke of Sandomierz in 1227 and duke of Cracow in 1243. († December 7th 1279)

• 1879: Umberto Brunelleschi, painter, Illustrator and Poster artist Italy N. († February 16th 1949)
• 1884: Masamitsu Ōshima, herpetologist and a ichtyologist Japan board. († June 26th 1965)
• 1905: Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher and French writer (Playwright and short story writer) like Critical of the 20th century. († April 15th 1980)
• 1919: Guy producing Lux, and TV host French. († June 13rd 2003)
• 1921: Jean de Broglie, Politician French. († December 24th 1976)
• 1926: Yvette Levy, surviving French and witness of the Shoah.
• 1929 : Abdel Halim Hafez, Actor and Egyptian Singer . († March 30th 1977)
• 1935: Francoise Sagan, écrivaine French. († September 24th 2004)
• 1947: Chirine Ebadi, lawyer E Iran ienne, Nobel Prize of peace in 2003.
• 1948 : Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer.
• 1950
• Gerard Lanvin, Actor French.
• Jeanne Labrune, Director and French Scenario writer .
• Joey Kramer, Beater of the American group Aerosmith
• 1953: Benazir Bhutto, political Woman Pakistan ease.
• 1955 : Michel Platini, Footballer French.
• 1957 : Lucien Deblois, hockeyor Canadian.
• 1958 : Gennady Padalka, Russian Cosmonaut .
• 1961
• Gess, Draftsman and Scenario writer French of Cartoon.
• Manu Chao, Singer and Musician of Rock'n'roll French.
• 1962 : Viktor Tsoi, Song writer and performer of his songs, leader of the group Kino. († August 15th 1990)
• 1964: Patrick Lowie, Belgian writer.
• 1965
• Yang Liwei, first Taïkonaute on board Shenzhou 5.
• François Baroin, Politician French.
• 1973 : Juliette Lewis, actress and American singer
• 1975: Shine Miguel Encabo, Spanish Matador .
• 1978 : Jean-Pascal Lacoste, known as Jipé , Singer, actor and TV host French.
• 1982 : Prince William, member of the British Royal family, wire of the Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, princess of Wales.
• 1985 : Amel Bent, French Singer .

Death

• 223 : Liu EIB, emperor of the Kingdom of Shu (° v. 161)
• 1305: Venceslas II, king de Bohême (1278 - 1305), duke of Cracow (1291 - 1305) and king de Pologne (1300 - 1305). (° September 17th 1271)
• 1356: Bolko II, Duke of Opole. (° ^Ca 1300)
• 1377: Edouard III of England, Count de Chester (1312), then King d' Angleterre starting from 1327, duke of Aquitaine, count de Ponthieu. (° November 13rd 1312)
• 1421: Jean II Meingre, called Boucicaut second of the name, Marshal of France (° ^Ca 1366)
• 1527: Nicolas Machiavel, thinker Italy N of the Rebirth, Theorist of the Political and the War. (° May 3rd 1469)
• 1582: Oda Nobunaga, important Daimyō of the Period Sengoku of history of Japan. (° June 23rd 1534)
• 1621: Louis III, cardinal of Own way, archbishop of Rheims of 1605 with 1621. (° January 22nd 1575)
• 1726: Adrien de Pauger, engineer-architect who drew the plans of Vieux Carré with La Nouvelle-Orléans
• 1824 : Etienne Aignan, Man of letters and Dramatic author French, member of the French Academy with armchair 27 in 1814. (° April 9th 1773)
• 1874: Anders Jonas Ångström, Astronomer and Physicist Swedish and one of the founders of the Spectroscopy. (° August 13rd 1814)
• 1889: Bocanegra of its true name Manual Fuentes there Rodríguez , Spanish Matador . (° March 21st 1837)
• 1908: Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov, Type-setter and Russian Theorist , one of the members of the Group of the Five. (° March 18th 1844)
• 1957: Johannes Stark, German Physicist Nobel Prize of physics in 1919. (° April 15th 1874)
• 1995: Emil Cioran, Philosopher and Rumanian writer of expression E initially, then French starting from 1949. (° April 8th 1911)
• 2001: John Lee Hooker, Guitarist and Singer of American Blues . (° 17 or August 22nd 1917)
• 2005: George Hawi, former general secretary of the Lebanese Communist party (° 1938)
• 2006: Jacques Lanzmann, French author (° May 4th 1927)

Characteristics

• Summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, it is the beginning of the summer.

Celebrations

• This day is dedicated to the Fête of the Music since 1982.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Artchil of Georgia († 744), king martyr.
• Leufroy d' Évreux († 738), abbot with the Cross-Saint-Leufroy.
• Martin de Tongres († towards 400).
• Méen de Gaël (or Meven) († 617), abbot.
• Raoul of Bourges (or sometimes wrongly Rodolphe) († 866), archbishop.
• Louis de Gonzague († 1591).
• Louarsab of Georgia († 1622), king martyr.

See too

• June 21st in sport
• June 21st in the railroads

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