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Sunday, 21 June 2026
1978 Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80. 
1980 John Lennon assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman.
1980 John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40.
1981 Shakey, [Walter Horton], harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin'), dies at 64
1982 Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered.
1983 Slim Pickins western actor dies at 64 after brain surgery
1983 Slim Pickins, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain surgery at 64.
1984 Luther Adler, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81.
1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel.
1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.
1988 Anne Seymour, actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79.
1989 Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies.
1990 Martin Ritt, US, director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70
1991 Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States.
1991 The Soviet Union comes to an end, with the forming of a 'Commonwealth of Independent States'.
1991 Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies.
1992 William Shawn, US editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85.
1993 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into US law. NAFTA is a trade pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, eliminates virtually all tariffs and trade restrictions between the three nations.
1993 Andre Cerf, French actor/producer (Nana), dies at 93.
1994 Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies at 67.
1995 Carl Marsden, bodyguard, dies at 36
1996 Howard E Rollins Jr, actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46.
1997 The Carlton Trail Railway (Omnitrax) takes over the operation of the following CN lines in north western Saskatchewan Warman Junction to just north of Prince Albert. Speers Junction to Meadow Lake.
2005 Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 overshoots the runway at Chicago Midway Airport, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring 11 other people.
2007 2007 Africa-EU Summit takes place as European Union and African Union leaders gather in Lisbon, Portugal, for their inaugural joint summit in seven years. The British and Czech prime ministers boycott the event due to the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
2012 UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020.
2012 In Qatar, the UN Climate Change Conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020.
2018 US President Trump announces John Kelly will be stepping down as White House Chief of Staff at the end of the year
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The United Kingdom is recorded as becoming the inaugural nation to begin a mass inoculation campaign using a clinically authorised, fully tested vaccine, tozinameran
2020 A report into the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings is released to the public.
2020 Nepal and China officially agree on Mount Everest's actual height, which is 8848.86m.
2021 Olaf Scholz is sworn as the new Chancellor of Germany, replacing Angela Merkel after 16 years
2024 American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift concludes "The Eras Tour" with her 149th show, at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada; the 21 month international concert tour is the highest-grossing of all time, with box office gross just over $2 billion [1]
2024 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola , jazz musician Arturo Sandoval, singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, rock band The Grateful Dead, and Harlem's Apollo Theater, in Washington D.C.
