At A Glance

21 June 2019 at a glance

Day of the week
21 June 2019 was a Friday.
Irish Chart Song in 2019
The Irish chart song for 2019 was “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi.
Top Film of 2019
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2019 was Avengers: Endgame.
Star sign
The star sign for 21 June is Cancer.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 21 June 2019 fell in the Year of the Pig.
Birthstone
The birthstone for June is Pearl.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 21 June 2019 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 21 June

  • 1993 Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-57 to retrieve the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) satellite. It is also the first shuttle mission to carry the Spacehab module.
  • 2000 Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
  • 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
  • 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
  • 2009 Greenland assumes self-rule.

Famous people born on 21 June

  • William, Prince of Wales, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne (born 1982)
  • Chris Pratt, American actor (born 1979)
  • Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter (born 1985)
  • Edward Snowden, American activist and academic (born 1983)

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Events of 2019 in Ireland

A selection from Wikipedia's '2019 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

  • 1 January – Technological University Dublin was established by the amalgamation of the Dublin Institute of Technology, the Institute of Technology Tallaght, and the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown.
  • 2 February – The chairman of the National Children's Hospital Development board Tom Costello resigned following the controversy over the spiralling costs of the project.
  • 10 March – 39-year-old Micheál Ryan was among the 157 people who were on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed while en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.

Life in Ireland in 2019

Taoiseach

Leo Varadkar

Petrol (per litre)

€1.45/L

Loaf of Bread

€1.65

Average House

€320,000

Weekly Wage

€550

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