Today
Sunday June 21 2026
- Day of the year
- 172/ 365
- Week
- 252,026
- Days left
- 19347%
- Moon
- 48%First quarter
Today is Sunday, June 21, 2026. It is day 172 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 193 remain, and 47% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 25.
What's celebrated on this date
International Day of Yoga
WorldwideUnited Nations — International Days
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Aloysius GonzagaItalian aristocrat and Jesuit seminarian and saint
- Julian of Antioch4th-century Christian martyr and saint
- Anastasio BallestreroCatholic cardinal (1913-1998)
- Artemas of LystraChristian saint
- Alban of MainzMissionary and martyr
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 05:25
- Sunset
- 20:31
- Length of day
- 15h 6m
- Solar noon
- 12:58
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Summer
began on June 21, 2026
Next season
Autumn — 93 days, September 22, 2026 (September equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Independence Day — July 3, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
First quarter
Illumination : 48%
Moon age : 6.5 days
- Next full moon
- June 29, 2026
- Next new moon
- July 14, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Cancer
until July 23, 2026 — Leo
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
-217
A Carthaginian force under Hannibal ambushes and defeats a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius in the battle of lake Trasimene during the Second Punic War. Wikipedia
1582
Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide. Wikipedia
1788
New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. Wikipedia
1791
King Louis XVI and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution. Wikipedia
1813
Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria. Wikipedia
1919
Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I. Wikipedia
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1963
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI. Wikipedia
1964
Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Wikipedia
2004
SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. Wikipedia
2006
Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day June 21
- 1732Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German pianist and composer (died 1791)
- 1781Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (died 1840)
- 1870Clara Immerwahr, Jewish-German chemist and academic (died 1915)
- 1889Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (died 1972)
- 1925Giovanni Spadolini, Italian journalist and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1994)
- 1947Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureateturns 79 years
- 1953Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2007)
- 1982William, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throneturns 44 years
Died on this day June 21
- 1040Fulk III, Count of Anjou (born 972)aged 70 years
- 1305Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (born 1271)aged 34 years
- 1377Edward III of England (born 1312)aged 65 years
- 1527Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author (born 1469)aged 58 years
- 1582Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (born 1534)aged 48 years
- 1908Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (born 1844)aged 64 years
- 1914Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)aged 71 years
- 1970Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (born 1901)aged 69 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 05:25 and sets at 20:31, giving 15h 6m of daylight — the same as yesterday. It has been summer since June 21, 2026; autumn opens in 93 days, on September 22, 2026 (September equinox).
The moon is at first quarter, 48% illuminated. The next full moon falls on June 29, 2026 and the next new moon on July 14, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches June 21 to Aloysius Gonzaga, Julian of Antioch and Anastasio Ballestrero.
June 21 is International Day of Yoga, designated by the United Nations or one of its agencies.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: A Carthaginian force under Hannibal ambushes and defeats a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius in the battle of lake Trasimene during the Second Punic War (-217); Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide (1582). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach was born on June 21, 1732; Fulk III died on June 21, 1040.
187 days remain until Christmas and 194 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — June 21 falls under the sign of Cancer.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 47%
- of the year elapsed
- 187
- until Christmas
- 194
- until New Year
- 618
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26