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 +This day usually marks the [[summer]] [[solstice]] in the northern [[hemisphere]] and the [[winter]] solstice in the southern hemisphere, and thus is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere and the shortest in the southern hemisphere.
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
- +*[[1940]] - [[World War II]]: [[France]] surrenders to [[Germany]].
 +*[[1973]] - [[United States censorship]]: [[The Miller case]] rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
 +*[[2002]] - [[Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies]] closed
== Births == == Births ==
 +*[[1864]] - [[Heinrich Wölfflin]], Swiss art historian (d. [[1945]])
 +*[[1905]] - [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], French philosopher and writer (d. [[1980]])
 +*[[1924]] - [[Pontus Hultén]] Swedish art collector and museum director (d. [[2006]])
 +*[[1932]] - [[Lalo Schifrin]], [[Argentine]] pianist and composer
 +*[[1935]] - [[Françoise Sagan]], French writer (d. [[2004]])
 +*[[1936]] - [[Dave Godin]], Northern Soul connoisseur (d. 2004)
 +*[[1946]] - [[David Weiss]], Swiss artist (d. 2012)
 +*[[1948]] - [[Ian McEwan]], English writer
 +*[[1954]] - [[Augustus Pablo]], Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
 +*[[1961]] - [[Manu Chao]], French Latin folk singer
 +*[[1973]] - [[Juliette Lewis]], American actress
== Deaths == == Deaths ==
- +*[[1527]] - [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], Italian historian and political author (b. [[1469]])
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-[[Manu Chao]] (born June 21, 1961 in Paris; real name Jose-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao; also occasionally credited as Oscar Tramor) is a French Latin folk singer. ...+
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-[[Dave Godin]](b Peckham, London, June 21, 1936 - d Rotherham, England, October 15, 2004) was an English fan of American soul music, who made a major ...+
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-[[Jean-Paul Sartre]] (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ...+
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-Horace Swaby (June 21, 1954–May 18, 1999), better known as [[Augustus Pabl]]o, was a Jamaican reggae and dub music record producer and keyboardist, ...+
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-[[Heinrich Wölfflin]] (June 21, 1864 – July 19, 1945) was a Swiss art critic, whose classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were ...+
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-[[Niccolò Machiavelli]] (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was a Florentine statesman and political philosopher. As a theorist, Machiavelli was the key figure in ...+
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-[[The Miller case]]+
-The case was argued on January 18-19, 1972 and reargued November 7, 1972 and the 5-4 decision was issued on June 21, 1973. The decision reiterated that ...+
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-[[Ian McEwan]] CBE, (born June 21, 1948), is a British novelist (sometimes nicknamed "Ian Macabre" because of the nature of his early work). ...+
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