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June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 193 days remain until the end of the year.
The city of Seattle experienced protests over the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and 2021. Beginning on May 29, 2020, demonstrators took to the streets throughout the city for marches and sit-ins, often of a peaceful nature but which also devolved into riots. Participants expressed opposition to systemic racism, police brutality and violence ...
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. For decades, activists and congress members (led by many African Americans) proposed legislation, advocated for, and built support for state and national observances. During his campaign for president in June 2020, Joe Biden publicly celebrated the holiday. [ 125]
1921 – Irish War of Independence: Most of the village of Knockcroghery in County Roscommon was burned by British forces. 1957 – Ellen Fairclough became the first woman to be appointed to the cabinet of Canada. Niccolò Machiavelli ( d. 1527) Joko Widodo ( b. 1961) Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy ( b. 1986) Soad Hosny ( d. 2001) More anniversaries ...
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons [2] that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai ), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. [1] [3] The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 ...
700,000 [4] Part of the tornado outbreaks of 2023. On June 20, a sequence of multiple severe weather events and tornado outbreaks began across large portions of the Great Plains, Midwestern, and Eastern United States as well as Manitoba and Ontario in Canada. This included a historic outbreak of 37 tornadoes in Colorado on June 21. [5]
Weekly observances in June 2024. June 1 to 7: National CPR and AED Awareness Week, Stepparents’ Week. June 1 to 9: National Fishing and Boating Week. June 2 to 8: National Garden Week, National ...
2.18 June 21 event. 2.19 June 22 event. 2.20 June 23 event. 2.21 June 24 event. ... An intermittent tornado embedded in an area of straight-line winds downed numerous ...