June 21st (2001) was a Thursday. It's the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 21st June, 2001
» A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
Famous Birthdays on June 21 in 2001
» Alexandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player
» Eleanor Worthington Cox, English actress
June 21st Famous Deaths for 2001
» John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1916)
» Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
June 21st Holidays in History
» Christian Feast Day:
» Alban of Mainz
» Aloysius Gonzaga
» Engelmund of Velsen
» Martin of Tongres
» Onesimos Nesib (Lutheran)
» June 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Public holidays in Togo or Day of the Martyrs (Togo)
» Go Skateboarding Day
» National Aboriginal Day (Canada)
» Solstice-related observances ('see also June 20'):
» Day of Private Reflection
» International Surfing Day
» National Day (Greenland)
» We Tripantu, a winter solstice festival in the southern hemisphere. (Mapuche, southern Chile)
» Willkakuti, an Andean-Amazonic New Year (Aymara people or Aymara)