Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: June 21
June 21, 2025 is the 172nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Pearl is your modern birthstone. Moonstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Day In History: June 21
On non-leap years (until 2039), this day marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, and is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere and the least hours of daylight in the southern hemisphere.
Historical Events: June 21
- 1749 –Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
- 1791 –King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
- 1824 –Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1826 –Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- 1900 –Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
- 1929 –An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
- 1930 –One-year conscription comes into force in France.
- 1942 –World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
- 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.
- 1982 –John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
Who were born on June 21?
- 1764 –Sidney Smith, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1840)
- 1786 –Charles Edward Horn, British musician (d. 1849)
- 1858 –Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)
- 1880 –Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
- 1921 –Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1946 –Brenda Holloway, American singer and songwriter
- 1947 –Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1948 –Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
- 1950 –Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
- 1978 –Erica Durance, Canadian actress
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