On June 21: Summer/ Winter solstice, Midsummer
- 1734 - A black slave known as Marie-Joseph Angélique was tortured and then hanged in New France.
- 1788 - New Hampshire ratified the U.S. Constitution and was admitted as the 9th U.S. state.
- 1813 - Laura Secord set out to warn British forces of impending American attack at Queenston, Ontario.
- 2000 - The anti- homosexual amendment known as Section 28 was repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.