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This is a list of selected June 21 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Midsummer festivities (Northern Hemisphere); Winter solstice festivals (Southern Hemisphere); both: refimprove section
1582Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyō, was forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide. refimprove
1734Marie-Joseph Angélique, a black slave, was tortured and hanged after having been convicted of starting a fire that burned much of Old Montreal. Lot of uncited stuff
1798 – Over 15,000 British soldiers launched an attack on Vinegar Hill, the largest camp and headquarters of the County Wexford United Irish rebels, marking a turning point in the Irish Rebellion. needs more footnotes
1813Peninsular War: The Marquess of Wellington's combined British, Portuguese, and Spanish allied army defeated the French near Vitoria, Spain. needs more footnotes
1851 – Germen chess master Adolf Anderssen defeated Lionel Kieseritzky in the Immortal Game, using bold sacrificial play. Looks to be sourced to a discussion forum
1854Crimean War: During the Battle of Bomarsund, Irish sailor Charles Davis Lucas threw an artillery shell off his ship before it exploded, earning him the first Victoria Cross. Requiring clean-up: Druminargal House is claimed to be in Poyntzpass, but its address is in Scarva
1942Second World War: The Panzerarmee Afrika soundly defeated an Allied force in the Battle of Gazala in Libya, considered the greatest victory of Erwin Rommel's career. unreferenced section
1964 – Three civil rights workers were murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi, U.S. refimprove section, lots of CN tags elsewhere (11)
1985 – Greenland officially adopted its own flag, adding support to its independence movement from Denmark. unreferenced section
2000 – The controversial British law known as Section 28, prohibiting the "promotion" of homosexuality, was repealed. also appears on May 24
2004SpaceShipOne completed the first privately funded human spaceflight. SS1: refimprove section; 15P: refimprove
June solstice (14:54 UTC, 2023); Article has almost no text and what it does have is uncited
Pope Leo IX |b|1002| Date not cited

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

Replica of the Manchester Baby
Replica of the Manchester Baby
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