This Day in History, June 21, 2023
Release time:
2023-06-21
June 21, 688: Wu Zetian added the title of "Sacred Mother God" to her own titles.
June 21, 1047: The Princess of Lu was born.
June 21, 1527: The death of historian Niccolò Machiavelli.
June 21, 1612: Death of Gu Xiancheng, a Ming Dynasty thinker and leader of the Donglin Party.
June 21, 1813: Battle of Vittoria.
June 21, 1852: Death of Friedrich Fröbel, founder of kindergarten.
June 21, 1870: The Tianjin Massacre occurred.
June 21, 1900: The Qing court declared war on the foreign powers.
June 21, 1905: Birth of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
June 21, 1933: The Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army went to the front lines to resist Japan.
June 21, 1945: The Battle of Okinawa ended.
June 21, 1946: Luo Binghui, who rose from slavery to become an outstanding military leader, died of illness.
June 21, 1953: Birth of Benazir Bhutto.
June 21, 1953: The Soviet Union deployed a large number of tanks to suppress the East Berlin riots.
June 21, 1955: Michel Platini's birthday.
June 21, 1956: The Chinese government leniently released the first batch of Japanese war criminals.
June 21, 1958: Death of Liu Yazhou.
June 21, 1970: Death of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president.
June 21, 1971: Death of Chen Yuan, educator and historian.
June 21, 1982: Birth of Prince William of the United Kingdom.
June 21, 1982: The assassin who attempted to assassinate Reagan was acquitted and released.
June 21, 1990: A major earthquake occurred in Iran.
June 21, 1991: Germany decided to move its capital to Berlin.
June 21, 1992: Death of Li Xiannian.
June 21, 1997: The misconduct of Italian peacekeeping forces in Somalia was exposed.
June 21, 1999: Apple Computer launched the iBook notebook computer.
June 21, 2000: China Unicom successfully listed on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges.
June 21, 2000: Establishment of the China E-commerce Association.
June 21, 2004: The world's first privately developed manned spacecraft, "SpaceShipOne," flew into space.
June 21, 2008: The first "Asia Lights Out Day".
June 21, 2011: The Guo Meimei incident.
June 21, 2012: Hainan established Sansha City.
June 21, 2017: A-shares included in MSCI
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