Birthday Paper › What happened on …? › June 21

Events on June 21

• 1156 Emperor Frederick Barbarossa grants Augsburg city rights again, which the town had already received as the Roman Augusta Vindelicum from the Roman emperor Hadrian in 121 AD. The Justitia Civitatis Augustensi is the oldest German town charter.
• 1868 Richard Wagner's opera, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, is premiered under Hans von Bülow.
• 1895 Kaiser Wilhelm II opens the Kiel Canal, then still called the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal.
• 1933 SA members begin the terror of the Köpenick Bloody Week.
• 1948 The Deutsche Mark replaces the Reichsmark as a result of the currency reform.
• 1948 The Columbia Broadcasting System introduces the long-playing record with revolutions per minute. This vinyl record, invented by its employee Peter Carl Goldmark, soon drives out the shellac record.
• 1960 Armin Hary reaches the finish line in Zurich as the first sprinter in the 100-meter race in an officially recognized time of 10.0 seconds. He was thereby to become the last European to hold the 100-meter world record.
• 1962 A concert by young street musicians ended by the police triggers the Schwabing riots in Munich.
• 1974 The Federal Constitutional Court issues an interim injunction preventing the time-limit rule for abortions from taking effect.
• 2001 The German Bundestag passes the Care Quality Assurance Act as a consequence of earlier nursing scandals. Care facilities are required, among other things, to establish quality management and must undergo inspections to provide evidence of performance and quality.
• 2003 The fifth Harry Potter novel is published in English. The German translation, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is released on November 8, 2003.
• 2004 With SpaceShipOne, a private spaceflight is carried out for the first time. The first private astronaut is Michael Melvill.

Born on June 21

• 1870 Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, women's rights activist, and pacifist, one of the first women in Germany to hold a doctoral degree
• 1891 Hermann Scherchen, German conductor and composer
• 1921 Helmut Heißenbüttel, German writer
• 1921 Jane Russell, American actress
• 1941 Liz Mohn, German businesswoman
• 1961 Manu Chao, French singer
• 1970 Hans Peter Doskozil, Austrian politician
• 1970 Mickie Krause, German singer
• 1981 Brandon Flowers, American musician
• 1990 Miriam Neureuther, German biathlete and cross-country skier

Is your birthday on June 21?

Then there is a newspaper that tells only the story of your day: what was going on in the world on June 21 of your birth year, which song was at the top, what the weather was like at your birthplace, plus birthday twins and a personal greeting.

• For every birth year from 1946
• 4 to 10 pages, always €14.90, as a PDF to print
• With a greeting page for voice and video messages

Create the paper for June 21 · €14.90

Day and month are already filled in, you only choose the birth year.

Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „21. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

More days in June