Daily Almanac: June 21, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 6:17 a.m.
SET: 9:21 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 82 °F
LOW: 64 °F

Today is…:

• First Day of Summer
• National Selfie Day
• National Smoothie Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 2004 SpaceShipOne completes the world’s first manned private spaceflight. The privately funded spaceplane reached an altitude of just over 100 kilometers (62 miles). Mike Melvill was the pilot and only occupant.
• 1985 The body of Josef Mengele is identified. An international team of scientists confirmed that the skeletal remains found in a cemetery in Embu, Brazil are those of the Nazi war criminal. Mengele was a physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp and conducted horrific experiments on some of the inmates.
• 1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini becomes Pope Paul VI. The Italian pontiff is known for completing the Second Vatican Council, addressing the Roman Catholic Church’s relationship with the modern world.

Births On This Day:

• 1982 Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

• 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre

French philosopher, writer

Deaths On This Day:

• 1527 Niccolò Machiavelli

Italian historian, philosopher
• 1377 Edward III of England