Historical Events on June 21

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• 524 Godomar, King of the Burgundians, defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce

• 996 Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German Emperor of Elzas
• 1128 Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik

• 1498 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian

• 1529 Battle of Landriano: Imperial-Spanish forces under Don Antonio de Leyva, Duke of Terranova, beat a French army under Francis de Bourbon, Comte de St. Pol
• 1547 Great fire in Moscow, 2-3,000 killed
• 1572 Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
• 1582 The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan
• 1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established at Jamestown
• 1661 Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty
• 1667 Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
• 1672 Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded

• 1734 In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony
• 1749 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Netherlands
• 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded
• 1768 1st medical diploma in America is granted to Dr John Archer from the College of Philadelphia

• 1788 The population of Vizille, France, demands local parliament

• 1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, British Columbia
• 1805 Great Stone Face, or the Profile found in New Hampshire
• 1813 Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria
• 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
• 1822 Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas arrested in South Carolina
• 1824 Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea
• 1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas

• 1849 Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
• 1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War)
• 1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
• 1863 Battle at Upperville, Virginia, 389 casualities


• 1864 New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends
• 1868 Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg" premieres in Munich

• 1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons
• 1879 Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful "F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• 1879 Infielder William White plays one game for the Providence Grays with conjecture was the first African-American to play MLB even though he appeared Caucasian

• 1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
• 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
• 1895 British Roseberry government falls
• 1898 US captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish-American War
• 1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
• 1900 In the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty
• 1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)

• 1907 US Open Men's Golf, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Alec Ross of Scotland posts 4 sub-80 rounds to win his only major title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Gilbert Nicholls
• 1907 E W Scripps founded United Press
• 1907 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Frenchman Arnaud Massy wins by 2 strokes from J.H. Taylor; first non-Briton to win Open Championship
• 1913 Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
• 1915 Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law
• 1915 The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens
• 1916 Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0
• 1916 Mexican troops defeat US expeditionary force under Gen. Pershing
• 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
• 1919 Bauer forms German government
• 1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands
• 1921 HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen
• 1921 The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations

• 1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
• 1930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
• 1932 German champion Max Schmeling loses world heavyweight title in split points decision to Jack Sharkey in New York
• 1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
• 1937 French People's front government-Blum falls
• 1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit

• 1940 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
• 1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia
• 1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
• 1941 After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
• 1942 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)

• 1942 Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
• 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit; 30 dead
• 1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
• 1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa
• 1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
• 1946 Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
• 1946 Federal judge in Seattle rules that club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
• 1948 1st stored computer program runs on Manchester Mark I at a laboratory in Manchester University, England
• 1948 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)

• 1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens


• 1948 WNAC (now WHDH) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1948 HMT Empire Windrush with the first 800 emigrants from the West Indies to the UK arrives at Port of Tilbury near London

• 1951 "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
• 1951 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Whitemarsh Valley CC: Patty Berg defeats Pat O'Sullivan, 2-up in the final
• 1952 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Skokie CC: Betsy Rawls defeats Betty Jameson, 1 up in the final
• 1952 Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
• 1954 John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)

• 1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
• 1956 German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
• 1956 Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters
• 1957 Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister

• 1957 7th Berlin International Film Festival: "12 Angry Men" wins Golden Bear
• 1958 French franc devalues
• 1960 Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
• 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m

• 1963 13th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Devil" and "Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai" win the Golden Bear (tie)
• 1964 Byron De La Beckwith arrested for the murder of civil rights activist Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
• 1964 Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH
• 1964 Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, disappear after being released from a Mississippi jail, later found murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan
• 1964 UEFA European Championship Final, Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain: Marcelino scores the winner as Spain beats Soviet Union, 2-1

• 1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam

• 1967 Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3

• 1968 18th Berlin International Film Festival: "Who Saw Him Die?" wins the Golden Bear


• 1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)

• 1969 John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
• 1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
• 1970 US Open Men's Golf Hazeltine National GC: Englishman Tony Jacklin shoots sub-par in all 4 rounds on his way to a 7-stroke win ahead of Dave Hill

• 1970 Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
• 1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana
• 1971 US Open Men's Golf, Merion GC: Lee Trevino wins his 2nd Open by 3 strokes in a Monday 18-hole playoff with Jack Nicklaus
• 1971 Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf
• 1971 International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia
• 1974 24th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" wins the Golden Bear

• 1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
• 1975 Cricket World Cup, Lord's, London: Player of the Match Clive Lloyd scores 102 as West Indies beats Australia by 17 runs; first major limited overs One Day International (ODI) tournament
• 1975 Ruffian leads all the way to win the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont and clinch American thoroughbred racing's Triple Tiara for fillies
• 1976 Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
• 1977 Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman enters prison

• 1977 Bülent Ecevit forms a minority government in Turkey which lasts only 1 month

• 1978 The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack
• 1979 Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
• 1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
• 1981 US Open Men's Golf, Merion GC: David Graham wins his second major title and becomes the first Australian to win the US Open, 3 strokes ahead of runners-up George Burns and Bill Rogers

• 1981 Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
• 1981 Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election

• 1983 Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss

• 1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
• 1986 "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
• 1986 "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
• 1986 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, signs 3-year contract to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals
• 1986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)

• 1987 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic Club: Scott Simpson passes and holds off 1982 champion Tom Watson on the Lake Course to win his only major title by 1 stroke
• 1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB

• 1988 42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
• 1988 Many killed at demonstration against General Ne Win in Rangoon
• 1988 Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
• 1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
• 1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression

• 1990 7.7 Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran; killing about 50,000
• 1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
• 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
• 1990 Parliaments of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
• 1990 US House of Representatives votes 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
• 1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!"
• 1991 Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Austrian province of Karinthia

• 1991 P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister of India as head of the Congress minority government
• 1992 US Open Men's Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Perennial runner-up Tom Kite breaks through for his only major title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Jeff Sluman

• 1993 "Camelot" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 56 performances


• 1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
• 1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

• 1997 "Defending the Caveman" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 performances

• 1997 Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks
• 1998 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic Club, SF: Lee Janzen recovers from 7 stroke deficit to win his second Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Payne Stewart
• 1998 "Don't Be Cruel" 2nd studio album by Bobby Brown is released (Grammy Award Best Male R&B Vocal Performance 1990)
• 2000 Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote
• 2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
• 2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen

• 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight

• 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra
• 2009 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Lord's: England 86/4 win inaugural event; beat New Zealand 85; England's Katherine Brunt takes 3 for 6
• 2012 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe

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