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If it's June 21 in New York, is it June 21 in Australia?

One answer is: much of the day. Because of the time zone difference, by 10AM in New York, it's already the next day in Australia. But, if you're really asking if the calendar is the same at the same time in both hemispheres, the answer is yes. While June 21 marks the beginning of summer in New York, it marks the beginning of winter in Australia. In the Northern Hemisphere, today is the summer solstice — the time when the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun. In the Northern Hemisphere, it's the longest day of the year. Some countries celebrate Midsummer Day with music, dancing and bonfires on this date (some celebrate it on June 24). Of course, all of this is reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, where this date marks the winter solstice, and the shortest day of the year.

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Events on June 21, 2011

Anne and Samantha Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Battle of Okinawa Ends
Bhutto, Benazir (Birth Date)
Cancer, the Crab
England: Royal Ascot
Go Skateboarding Day
Greenland: National Day
Hirschfeld, Al (Birth Date)
Hurricane Agnes
Lubec Bicentennial Celebration
Midnight Sun Baseball Game
Midsummer Day/Eve Celebrations
Midsummer
National Daylight Appreciation Day
New Hampshire Ratifies Constitution
Sartre, Jean-Paul (Birth Date)
Space Milestone: First Manned Private Spaceflight
Summer
Swedish Days—a Midsommar Festival
Tanner, Henry Ossawa (Birth Date)
Tompkins, Daniel D. (Birth Date)
Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis (Birth Anniversary)
Windjammer Days
World Humanist Day

Birthdays on June 21, 2011

Kris Allen, 26, singer, television personality (“American Idol”), born Jacksonville, AR, June 21, 1985.
Meredith Baxter, 64, actress (“Bridget Loves Bernie,” “Family,” “Family Ties”), born Los Angeles, CA, June 21, 1947.
Berke Breathed, 54, cartoonist (“Bloom County”), born Croatia, June 21, 1957.
Thomas Doane (Tom) Chambers, 52, former basketball player, born Ogden, UT, June 21, 1959.
Derrick D. Coleman, 44, former basketball player, born Mobile, AL, June 21, 1967.
Sammi Davis-Voss, 47, actress (“Homefront,” Hope and Glory), born Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, June 21, 1964.
Jim Douglas, 60, Governor of Vermont (R), born Springfield, MA, June 21, 1951.
Joe Flaherty, 71, writer, actor (“SCTV,” “SCTV Network 90”), born Pittsburgh, PA, June 21, 1940.
Michael Gross, 64, actor (“Family Ties”), born Chicago, IL, June 21, 1947.
Mariette Hartley, 70, actress (“Peyton Place”), born New York, NY, June 21, 1941.
Richard Jefferson, 31, basketball player, born Los Angeles, CA, June 21, 1980.
Bernie Kopell, 78, actor (“Get Smart,” “The Love Boat,” “When Things Were Rotten”), born New York, NY, June 21, 1933.
Juliette Lewis, 38, singer, actress (Kalifornia, Natural Born Killers), born Los Angeles, CA, June 21, 1973.
Nils Lofgren, 60, musician, singer, songwriter, born Chicago, IL, June 21, 1951.
Jane Russell, 90, actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), born Bemidji, MN, June 21, 1921.
Doug Savant, 47, actor (“Melrose Place,” “Desperate Housewives”), born Burbank, CA, June 21, 1964.
Rick Sutcliffe, 55, broadcaster, former baseball player, born Independence, MO, June 21, 1956.
Larry Wachowski, 46, filmmaker with brother Andy Wachowski (The Matrix), born Chicago, IL, June 21, 1965.
Prince William (William Arthur Philip Louis), 29, son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, born London, England, June 21, 1982.

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June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 193 days remaining until the end of the year.

On non-leap years (until 2039), this day marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, and is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere and the least hours of daylight in the southern hemisphere.

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