On This Day | 21 June

On this day:

2004: SpaceShipOne completes the world’s first manned private spaceflight

1921: The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations

1948: Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)

1991: P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister of India as head of the Congress minority government

Born on this day:

1905: Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, writer

Gone on this day:

1527: Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian, philosopher