June 21
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21 de junio
- On June 21, many people celebrate the summer solstice by gathering in parks and hosting outdoor events.
Examples
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On June 21, 1994, Jose Martin of Spain was driving with his wife near Madrid when a 3-pound (1.4-kilogram) meteor crashed through his windshield, bent the steering wheel, and ended up in the back seat.
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Finally, on June 21, 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to face, for the second time, the issue of whether ash generated by a MSW incinerator is subject to RCRA regulation if it exhibits hazardous characteristics.
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Mark Friday, June 21, in your calendar and start planning and building your team.
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Bahari's ordeal began on June 21.
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The Articles remained in effect until June 21, 1788, when the Constitution was officially ratified.
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To complicate matters even further, this year the actual solstice occurred on June 22, not the usual June 21.
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Many pagans complained that free access should have been moved to the following day, but Connelly took a practical approach: "You're going to have 20,000 people showing up on June 21 expecting to see the stones."
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Every year, June 21 marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, resulting in extended daylight hours.
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Schools often schedule their summer break to begin right after June 21, coinciding with the start of summer.
Synonyms
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A day with the most daylight in the year, usually around June 21 in the north
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although a learner who knows 'June' and '21' will transparently interpret this as a calendar date, the specific use to mean the International Day of Yoga (and associated celebrations) is an arbitrary, culture-specific metonymy that cannot be derived from the constituent words. Recognizing the event requires encyclopedic/cultural knowledge rather than compositional semantic inference.
Etymology
June 21 is the day when the sun reaches its farthest point north, so people north of the equator often have the 'longest day' of the year. Ancient sites like Stonehenge were built to watch the sunrise on June 21, so the date came to mean the 'summer solstice'.