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Did you know ...
Katen, one of the Juniten
- ... that the paintings of the Juniten (Katen pictured) were used in esoteric Buddhist rituals?
- ... that Lenny Brown almost left his college basketball team after two games, but stayed to become one of its all-time leading scorers?
- ... that Ananth Subramaniam came up with Bleat! after thinking of a pregnant goat?
- ... that after seizing the island of Bangka in an 1812 military expedition, the British quickly abandoned it due to high mortality rates?
- ... that in his first year as an NBA G League head coach, Scott King was named its coach of the year?
- ... that TJ Monterde recorded his song "Puhon" under a blanket in his bedroom?
- ... that a California TV station lost the rights to air Sacramento Kings basketball for declining to share revenue from pre-game and post-game shows?
- ... that while making Caressing My Hibernating Bear, the creator said a real bear appeared in the neighborhood?
- ... that the neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Dan Burros killed himself when The New York Times revealed that he was Jewish?
In the news
Aleksander Barkov
- In ice hockey, the Florida Panthers (captain Aleksander Barkov pictured) defeat the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup.
- In motorsport, Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye, and Phil Hanson of AF Corse win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
- In the US state of Minnesota, state representative Melissa Hortman is assassinated and state senator John Hoffman is injured.
- Former president of Nicaragua and first elected female president in the Americas Violeta Chamorro dies at the age of 95.
On this day
June 21: Fête de la Musique; International Day of Yoga; National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada; Xiazhi in China (2025)
Replica of the Manchester Baby
217 BC – Second Punic War: The Carthaginians under Hannibal ambushed a Roman army at the Battle of Lake Trasimene, capturing or killing 25,000 men.
1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government in present-day Romania.
1898 – In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the United States captured Guam from Spain.
1919 – During a general strike in Winnipeg, Canada, members of the Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a crowd of strikers, armed with clubs and revolvers.
1948 – The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first program.
Claude Auchinleck (b. 1884)
Maureen Connolly (d. 1969)
William, Prince of Wales (b. 1982)
Wong Ho Leng (d. 2014)
Today's featured picture
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| The Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) is a species of goose endemic to southern Australia. It was first formally described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801. Adult Cape Barren geese are large birds, typically measuring 75 to 100 centimetres (30 to 39 inches) long and weighing between 3.7 to 5.2 kilograms (8.2 to 11.5 pounds), with males generally being larger than females. The plumage is mostly pale grey with a slight brown tint. The head is somewhat small in proportion to the body and mostly grey in colour, save for a pale whitish patch on the forehead and crown. Cape Barren geese are largely terrestrial, only occasionally swimming. They predominantly graze on grasses, sedges, legumes, herbs, and succulents. This group of Cape Barren geese in flight was photographed near Hanson Bay, on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp |
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