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Sunday, 21 June 2026
1982 Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85 
1985 In the Southern Xinjiang, China region a 7.3 quake killed at least 71, 162 injured, about 15000 homeless and about 85 percent of the buildings destroyed in the Wuqia-Shufu area.
1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1160000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1985 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3 29.46) in Berlin.
1986 Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80.
1987 Siegfried Borris, composer, dies at 80.
1988 Mike Tyson and Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem.
1989 Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies.
1990 David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80.
1991 Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93
1992 More than 500 survivors return to Singapore from the cruise ship Royal Pacific, which sank after a collision with a fishing boat
1992 Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85
1993 Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80.
1994 Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82.
1995 Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (Life magazine) dies at age 96.
1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist, dies at 96.
1997 Eric Gairy, PM of Grenada (1974-79), dies
1999 Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926).
2000 A Gulf Air Airbus jetliner with 140 aboard crashes into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain shortly after takeoff, leaving no survivors.
2000 In a 'reality TV' record an estimated 51 million US viewers tuned in for the finale of CBS' series Survivor, in which contestant Richard Hatch won the $US1 million prize
2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement from 25 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank ends
2006 In Austria Natascha Kampusch manages to escape after being kidnapped eight years ago by Wolfgang Priklopil who locked her up in his cellar. Priklopil commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train.
2011 Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War
2012 Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia
2013 50 people are killed in mosque bombings in Tripoli, Lebanon.
2017 World's driest place, the Atacama desert in Chile blooms after unexpected rainfall
2017 Air strike on hotel in Yemen capital Sanaa by Saudi-led coalition leaves at least 30 dead
2017 US Navy fires Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin as commander of the Seventh Fleet following series of collisions in Asian waters.
2017 India toll from swine flu rises above 1000 for the year, 22186 cases reported.
2017 Nearly 60 million people in the Indus Valley, Pakistan at risk from arsenic in research published in "Science Advances".
2018 Tenor Plácido Domingo sings his 150th opera role in Bizet ââ¬â¢s ââ¬ÅThe Pearl Fishersââ¬Â at the Salzburg Festival, Austria
2018 Ecuador withdraws from ALBA.
2019 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron describe the widespread Amazon fires as an international emergency, urging the matter to be discussed at the weekend's G7 summit
2020 US black man Jacob Blake shot and injured by police in front of his children in Kenosha, Wisconsin, prompting violent protests.
