EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
June 21
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Day 171 of 2026 | Week 25 | 188 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
A hot air balloon catches fire mid-flight and crashes in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil, killing 8 of the 21 on board.
A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
An Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport, killing 11.
Greenland assumes self-rule.
Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
A Yeti Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashes at Jumla Airport in Nepal, killing nine people.
Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
English actress (Deidre-Coronation Street)
New Zealand cricketer (NZ captain turned them into world-beaters)
Jamaican musician (King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown)
American baseball player
American actor (Valley Girl; Breaking Bad)
American actress (Lonely Guy
British mezzo-soprano
Japanese anime director (Bee Train Production)
singer-songwriter
Canadian poet (Autobiography of Red)
French actor (Une étrange affaire)
American hard rock drummer (Aerosmith - "Walk This Way")
American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida)
Polish writer (The Witcher)
English writer (Atonement)
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