Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 21
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This is a list of selected June 21 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1813 – Peninsular War: In the Battle of Vitoria, the Marquess of Wellington's combined British, Portuguese, and Spanish allied army defeated the French near Vitoria, Spain.
- 1864 – New Zealand land wars: The Tauranga Campaign ended.
- 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Miller v. California, establishing the "Miller test" for determining what is obscene material.
- 1985 – Greenland officially adopted its own flag, adding support to its independence movement from Denmark.
- 2004 – SpaceShipOne (pictured) completed the first privately funded human spaceflight.
