June 21
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- 1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, founded.
- 1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
- 1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
- 1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania Prisons.
- 1898 - Guam becomes a U.S. territory
- 1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany.
- 1942 - World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
- 1945 - World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends.
- 1964 - Three civil rights agitators, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1982 - John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
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