June 21: World Music Day; National Aboriginal Day in Canada
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- 1529 – War of the League of Cognac: The French army under Francis de Bourbon was destroyed in Lombardy, present-day Italy, by the Spanish army.
- 1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government.
- 1919 – During the Winnipeg general strike in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, members of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police charged into the crowd of strikers on horseback, beating them with clubs and firing weapons.
- 1963 – Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was elected as Pope Paul VI.
- 2004 – SpaceShipOne (pictured) completed the first privately funded human spaceflight.
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