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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_21" title="June 21">June 21</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_de_la_Musique" title="Fête de la Musique">Fête de la Musique</a></b>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Yoga" title="International Day of Yoga">International Day of Yoga</a></b>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Indigenous_Peoples_Day" title="National Indigenous Peoples Day">National Indigenous Peoples Day</a></b> in Canada; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiazhi" title="Xiazhi">Xiazhi</a></b> in China (2024)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/217_BC" title="217 BC">217 BC</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthaginians</a> under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> ambushed a Roman army in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Trasimene" title="Battle of Lake Trasimene">Battle of Lake Trasimene</a></b>, capturing or killing 25,000 men.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a> – In the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachian_Revolution_of_1848" title="Wallachian Revolution of 1848">Wallachian Revolution</a></b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Heliade_R%C4%83dulescu" title="Ion Heliade Rădulescu">Ion Heliade Rădulescu</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Tell" title="Christian Tell">Christian Tell</a> proclaimed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Islaz" title="Proclamation of Islaz">a new republican government</a> in present-day Romania.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1898" title="1898">1898</a> – In a bloodless event during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a>, the United States <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Guam" title="Capture of Guam">captured Guam</a></b> from Spain.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a> – During <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_general_strike" title="Winnipeg general strike">a general strike</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg" title="Winnipeg">Winnipeg</a>, Canada, members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Mounted_Police" title="North-West Mounted Police">Royal North-West Mounted Police</a> attacked a crowd of strikers, armed with clubs and revolvers.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby" title="Manchester Baby">Manchester Baby</a></b>, the world's first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-program_computer" title="Stored-program computer">stored-program computer</a>, ran its first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program" title="Computer program">computer program</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Auchinleck" title="Claude Auchinleck">Claude Auchinleck</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1884); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Connolly" title="Maureen Connolly">Maureen Connolly</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1969); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William,_Prince_of_Wales" title="William, Prince of Wales">William, Prince of Wales</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1982); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Ho_Leng" title="Wong Ho Leng">Wong Ho Leng</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2014)</p>
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