June 21

Today in History
• 1307 - Külüg Khan is enthroned as Emperor of China
• 1547 - Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
• 1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established at Jamestown
• 1675 - Foundation stone for London's St. Paul’s Cathedral is laid
• 1684 - King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
• 1749 - Town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded by the British
• 1768 - 1st medical diploma in America is granted to Dr John Archer
• 1788 - US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Andean New Year
• Canada's National Indigenous Peoples Day
• June Solstice
• Martyrs' Day in Togo
• National Aboriginal Day
• National Arizona Day
• National Seashell Day
• Reserves Day

Birthdays
• 1002 - Pope Leo IX [Bruno, Graf von Egisheim und Dagsburg], Catholic Church's 151st pope
• 1528 - Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1564-76)
• 1639 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister
• 1706 - John Dollond, British optician and owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
• 1774 - Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician, 6th US Vice President (1817-25)
• 1832 - Joseph Rainey, politician, 1st African American in US House of Representatives
• 1844 - Ernest F. Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway)
• 1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer, pioneer in the field of astrophotography