{"id":22251,"date":"2023-06-21T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T06:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=22251"},"modified":"2023-06-16T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T11:00:14","slug":"history-of-21-june-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-21-june-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 21 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 21 June<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2001<\/strong> &#8211; Former Haitian Army colonel Carl Dorelien taken into custody in Port St. Lucie. Dorelien had been in exile since 1994 when he was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 1994 massacre.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong> &#8211; The fifth Harry Potter book, &#8220;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,&#8221; was published by J.K. Rowling.\u00a0Amazon.com\u00a0shipped out more than one million copies on this day making the day the largest distribution day of a single item in e-commerce history. The book set sales records around the world with an estimated 5 million copies were sold on the first day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong> &#8211; SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Mike Melvill, reached 328,491 feet above Earth in a 90 minute flight. The height is about 400 feet above the distance scientists consider to be the boundary of space.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Edgar 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).<\/li>\n<li><strong>2006<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pluto&#8217;s newly discovered moons are officially named\u00a0Nix\u00a0and\u00a0Hydra.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Greenland\u00a0assumes\u00a0self-rule.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A boat carrying more than 200 migrants\u00a0capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Garrett Jones, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brandon Flowers, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brad Walker, American pole vaulter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lee Dae-ho, South Korean baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Prince William, Duke of Cambridge<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jussie Smollett, American actor and singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Edward Snowden, American activist and academic<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sentayehu Ejigu, Ethiopian runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Byron Schammer, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kathleen O&#8217;Kelly-Kennedy, Australian\u00a0wheelchair basketball\u00a0player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Hideaki Wakui, Japanese baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pablo Barrera, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sebastian Pr\u00f6dl, Austrian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dale Thomas, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball and volleyball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Paolo Tornaghi, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Thaddeus Young, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ri\u010dardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lunar C, English rapper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Moubandje, Swiss footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0H\u00e5vard Nordtveit, Norwegian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ga\u00ebl Kakuta, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0MAX, American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer and model<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ba\u015fak Erayd\u0131n, Turkish tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tyrone May, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Derrius Guice, American football player<\/li>\n<li>f Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 21 June 2001 &#8211; Former Haitian Army colonel Carl Dorelien taken into custody in Port St. Lucie. Dorelien had been in exile since 1994 when he was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 1994 massacre. 2003 &#8211; The fifth Harry Potter book, &#8220;Harry Potter and the Order of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1302,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-22251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-21-june","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5MT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22304,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251\/revisions\/22304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}