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| June 21st, 2006 | Event | Pluto s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra. |
| June 21st, 2004 | Event | SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. |
| June 21st, 2001 | Event | 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. |
| June 21st, 2000 | Event | Section 28 (outlawing the promotion of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. |
| June 21st, 1982 | Event | John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. |
| June 21st, 1973 | Event | In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law. |
| June 21st, 1964 | Event | Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| June 21st, 1964 | Event | Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies throws a perfect game againist the New York Mets and becomes the seventh pitcher to do so. |
| June 21st, 1957 | Event | Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada s first woman Cabinet Minister. |
| June 21st, 1952 | Event | Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. |
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