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Events in June 2021 8
1932 – 2021Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021)Died 29 June 2021, aged 88American politician who served twice as United States secretary of defense and was a principal architect of the Iraq War.
2021French Open 2021Men: Novak Djokovic · Women: Barbora Krejčíková
2021No Gods No Masters -- political furyNo Gods No Masters (June 2021) is Garbage's most politically explicit album -- released into a world of pandemic, Black Lives Matter, climate crisis and populist authoritarianism. 'The Men Who Rule the World,' 'Anonymous XXX' and 'Wolves' address power, exploitation and resistance with a directness that goes beyond previous Garbage records. Manson's public activism and her social media presence -- where she regularly challenges sexism in the music industry and advocates for progressive causes -- are reflected in the album's uncompromising tone. It is their strongest record in two decades.
202160th birthday — still activeTurned 60 in June 2021, still touring with Radio Bemba Sound System and collaborating with artists across the world — having outlasted nearly every band of his generation while refusing to compromise his principles.
2021The fifty pound noteIssued on his birthdayThe Bank of England issues a new fifty pound note carrying Turing's portrait, a table from On Computable Numbers, and the line that this is only a foretaste of what is to come. It enters circulation on what would have been his hundred and ninth birthday.
2021Surfside condominium collapses in FloridaNinety-eight killed in a partial building failureThe Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed on 24 June 2021, killing 98 people in one of the deadliest structural failures in United States history.
2021Pacific Northwest heat dome breaks recordsLytton reaches 49.6C, then burns downAn extreme heat dome settled over the Pacific Northwest in late June 2021. Lytton, British Columbia, reached 49.6C, a Canadian record, and was destroyed by fire the following day. Hundreds died across the region.
2021The novelisationA paperback, on purposeTarantino publishes Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as a mass-market paperback novel — not a tie-in but a genuine rewrite, reordering events, expanding Cliff Booth's past and cutting the film's climax almost entirely. It is a deliberate revival of the disposable movie novelisations he grew up reading.