Today in History - June 21
Events
0524 - Battle at Vezerone, Burgundy
defeates France
0996 - Pope
Gregory V crowns Otto
III Roman Catholic German Emperor of Elzas
& Netherlands
1128 - Battle of Akspoele, Earl
Willem of Normandy defeates Diederik
1498 - Jews are expelled from Nuremberg,
Bavaria
by Emperor
Maximillian
1547 - Great fire of Moscow
1572 - Garrison under Adrian van Swieten conquers Gouda,
Netherlands
1607 - First Protestant Episcopal
parish in America established, Jamestown,
VA
1633 - Galileo
Galilei is forced by Inquisition to abjure, curse, &
detest his Copernican heliocentric
views
1661 - Treaty
of Kardis, Russia
& Sweden
sign peace treaty
1667 - Admiral
Michiel de Ruyter of the Netherlands,
occupies Sheerness,
England
1672 - Pension advisor Johan
de Witt, Netherlands,
seriously wounded
1672 - French
troops under King
Louis XIV occupy Utrecht,
Netherlands
1684 - King
Charles II revokes Massachusetts
Bay Colony charter
1749 - Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Netherlands
1768 - First Bachelor of Medicine degree in the US
awarded to Dr.
John Archer
1788 - US
Constitution goes into effect as New
Hampshire is 9th state to ratify
1788 - Population of Vizille,
France
demand local parliament
1791 - King
Louis XVI of France
& family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne
1792 - Captain
George Vancouver meets Spanish
ships Sutil
& Mexicana off Vancouver,
BC
1805 - Great
Stoneface Mountain discovered in New
Hampshire
1821 - African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ) organizes in NYC
1834 - Cyrus
Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
1849 - Battle at Waghusel, Prussian
troops defeat Baden
rebels
1858 - Louisiana
chess prodigy Paul
Morphy arrives in Europe
1863 - Battle
at Upperville, Virginia,
389 casualities
1868 - Opera
Meistersinger von Nuernberg, by Richard
Wagner premieres in Munich,
Germany
1879 - F.
W. Woolworth opens 1st store; failed almost immediately
1887 - Britain
celebrates golden jubilee of Queen
Victoria
1893 - First ferris
wheel goes into service at Columbian
Exposition in Chicago
1894 - Workers in Pittsburgh
strike Pullman
Sleeping Car Company
1895 - British
government of Archibald
Primrose the Earl of Roseberry falls
1898 - Guam
becomes a territory of US
1903 - Sherlock
Holmes' The
Adventure of the Mazarine Stone takes place
1907 - E. W. Scripps starts United
Press
1913 - Tiny
Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1915 - Revolt against British
rule in South
Africa ends with arrest of General De Law
1916 - Pancho
Villa's troops beat US
expeditionary force under General
John Pershing
1917 - Hawaiian Red Cross forms
1919 - Gustave
Bauer forms government in Germany
1919 - Admiral
Ludwig von Reuter scuttles German
High Seas fleet at Scapa
Flow
1923 - Marcus
Garvey of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association sentenced to prison, mail fraud
1924 - NCRV, Dutch
Christian Radio Society established
1933 - First Great
Lakes to Gulf
of Mexico barge trip completed at New Orleans
1937 - French
People's Front government of Leon
Blum falls
1939 - Doctors reveal Lou
Gehrig has Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
1940 - Germany
disband Netherlands
General Council of States
1941 - France's
Second Army occupies Damascus,
Syria
1942 - Mid-East Record high temperature, Tirat Zevi, Israel,
129oF/54oC
1942 - Jacqueline
Kennedy's mother, Janet
Norton Lee Bouvier, marries Hugh Auchincloss
1942 - British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill arrives in Washington,
DC to meet with President
Roosevelt
1942 - Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel captures Tobruk
in North
Africa
1943 - Federal troops put down race riot in Detroit,
Michigan,
30 die
1944 - Allies carry out massive bombing
raid on Berlin
1945 - US
forces defeat Japanese
forces on Okinawa
1946 - Fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas,
Texas,
10 die
1948 - First stored program run, on Manchester
Mark I computer
1948 - Columbia's Dr.
Peter Goldmark introduces 33 1/3 RPM LP record
1948 - Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out
78's
1948 - Lord
Mountbatten resigns as Governor-Genearal of India
1948 - Rhodes Conference on Israeli Arab war begins
1948 - WNAC TV, now KNEV (CBS) Channel 7 in Boston,
Massachusetts,
begins broadcasting
1951 - Pope
Pius XII publishes Encyclical
Evangelii Praecones
1956 - Antiprotons
detected in the atmosphere
1956 - German
Democratic Republic frees almost 19,000 prisoners
1962 - USAF
Major Robert M. White takes X-15
to 75,190 meters
1963 - Pope
Paul VI aka Giovanni Battista Montini succeeds Pope
John XXIII
1964 - Byron
de la Beckwith arrested for murder of Medgar
Evers, found guilty 30 years later
1964 - Civil rights workers Michael
Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, & James Chaney disappear
1966 - Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands
opens Coentunnel in Amsterdam
1968 - US
Supreme Court Chief
Justice Earl Warren resigns
1969 - First reported broadcast of pirate radio WGHP (With God's
Help Peace)
1969 - Dmitri
Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1969 - Zager
& Evans release In
the Year 2525
1971 - Celebration
of Life, rock concert, McCrea, Louisiana,
50,000 attend
1971 - International
Court of Justice in Den
Hague asks South
Africa to pull out of Namibia
1975 - Jaws
by Steven
Spielberg premiers
1975 - Sir
Elton John, The
Eagles, & The
Beach Boys play Wembley
Stadium, London,
England
1975 - Ritchie
Blackmore leaves Deep
Purple, forms Rainbow
1975 - Soyuz
19 returns to Earth
1976 - Enrico
Berlinguer's PCI Party wins election in Italy
1977 - Former White
House chief of staff H.R.
Haldeman begins serving prison sentance
1977 - Menachem
Begin, Likud
Party, becomes Israel's
6th Prime Minister
1978 - Andrew
Lloyd Webber & Tim
Rice's musical Evita,
premiers in London
1981 - Case of 12 bottles of 1979 Napa
Medoc
Cabernet
wine auctioned for $24,000
1981 - Don
Fagan & Walter
Becker leave Steely
Dan
1981 - Riots in Casablanca,
66-200 die
1981 - Socialist party wins parliamentary election in France
1982 - Paul
McCartney releases Take
it Away
1982 - Jury finds John
Hinckley innocent by reason of insanity in assassination attempt
on Reagan
1983 - Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama,
18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1983 - Tennis ace Arthur
Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
1985 - US,
Brazilian
& German
forensic pathologists confirm remains in Brazil are Dr.
Mengele's
1986 - President
Ronald Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
1987 - Discovery
rolls over from OPF
to Vandenberg
AFB
1988 - Demonstration against General
Ne Win in Rangoon,
Myanmar,
many die
1988 - The
Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
1989 - US
Supreme Court rules it's okay to burn US
flag as a political expression
1990 - Earthquake
with a magnitude 7.7 on the Richter
scale, hits Iran,
50,000 die
1990 - Little
Richard receives star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame
1990 - NYC's
Zodiac
killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
1990 - Parliament of West & East Germany
recognize Oder-Neissegrens
1990 - US
House of Representatives
vote 254-177 of banning flag burning, fails to pass
1990 - Nelson
Mandela dons a NY
Yankee baseball cap at Yankee
Stadium & proclaims; I am a Yankee!
1991 - Eleanor
Mondale marries Minnesota
DJ Greg Thunder Malban
1991 - Jorg
Haider resigns as Premier of the State of Carinthia
in Austria
1992 - Actor Michael
Chiklis marries Michelle Epstein
1992 - Actress Marina
Sirtis marries rock musician Michael Lamper
1993 - English mathematician Andrew
Wiles proves Fermat's
Last Theorem
1993 - Endeavour
mission STS-57
launches into orbit
2001 - Total solar
eclipse over Madagascar
and the Atlantic
Ocean
Births
1002 - Leo
IX, aka Bruno, Count of Egesheim
& Dagsburg, Pope, 1049-54
1577 - Giovanni Del Turco, composer
1596 - Mikhail
Feodorovich Romanov, first Romanov
Tsar of Russia,
1613-45
1640 - Abraham Mignon, still life painter
1668 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer
1688 - Alexander
Pope, England,
poet; Rape of the Lock
1730 - Motoori
Norinaga, Japan,
scientist
1732 - Johann
Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
1732 - Martha
Washington, first 1st lady, 1789-97
1740 - Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist, author; Algemeen Rijksarchief
1763 - Pierre
P. Royer-Collard, French attorney, philosopher
1774 - Daniel
D. Tompkins, 6th US
Vice-President, 1817-25
1781 - Simon-Denis
Poisson, France,
mathematician; Poisson verdeling
1790 - Wilhelm Speyer, composer
1805 - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, Germany,
composer
1817 - James
Brewerton Ricketts, Brevet Brigadier General, Union
Army
1818 - Ernst
II, Duke of Saxony,
Coburg, Gotha, 1844-93, composer
1818 - Joseph
Abel Haskin, Brigadier General, Union
Volunteers
1823 - Edward
Elmer Potter, Brevet Major General, Union
Volunteers
1839 - Joaquim
M Machado de Assic, Brazil,
writer; Epitaph of a Small Winner
1839 - Johannes P. R. Tak, Netherlands,
liberal
politician
1839 - John
Decatur Barry, Brigadier-General, Confederate
Army
1844 - Ernest F. Cambier, Belgium,
colonial pioneer; established 1st railway in the Congo
1851 - Daniel
Carter Beard, Founder of Boys
Scouts of America
1859 - Henry
O. Tanner, African American artist
1862 - Henry
Holden Huss, composer
1862 - Johannes Schlaf, Germany,
writer
1865 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
1873 - Henry
Major Tomlinson, England,
writer; Sea & Jungle
1876 - Willem
H. Keesom, physicist, liquefaction of helium
1879 - Umberto
Brunelleschi, Italy,
cartoonist, illustrator; Candide
1882 - Rockwell
Kent, artist, painter, illustrator; The
Canterbury Tales
1883 - Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russia,
writer; Cement
1884 - Sir
Claude John Eyre Auk Auchinleck, England,
fieldmarshal North
Africa
1891 - Hermann
Scherchen, Berlin, Germany,
conductor; Nature of Music
1891 - Pier
Luigi Nervi, Italy,
architect; Nuove Struttura
1892 - Hilding
Rosenberg, Bosjkloster, Sweden,
composer; Babels Torn
1892 - Reinhold
Niebuhr, US,
theologian; Nature & Destiny of Man
1893 - Alois
Haba, Czech
Republic, operetic composer; Mother
1899 - Pavel
Haas, composer
1900 - Gunnar Ekelof, composer
1902 - Wilhelm Maler, composer
1903 - Al
Hirschfeld aka Albert, St.
Louis, Missouri,
cartoonist, NINA, NY Times
1903 - Alf
Sjoberg, Stockholm,
Sweden,
director; Fadern, Oen, Domaren
1903 - Dorothy
Stickney, Dickinson,
North
Dakota, actor; And So They Were Married
1903 - Helene
Costello, dancer, actor; Love Toy
1903 - Louis
Krasner, violinist
1905 - Jacques Godot, France,
publisher; Tour de France
1905 - Jean
Paul Sartre, existentialist, writer; Le Mur, Nobel
prize 1964, declined
1906 - Luis Maria Millet, composer
1909 - Kurt
Schwaen, composer
1910 - Bela Tardos, Hungary,
composer
1910 - Charles Jones, hymn composer
1912 - Mary
McCarthy, US,
novelist; Group
1913 - Irving
Shulman, author, screenwriter
1914 - Jan
Decadt, composer
1914 - William
Vickrey, economist; Nobel
Prize 1996
1916 - Joe Bamford, England,
manufacturer
1918 - James Bysse Joll, historian
1920 - Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)
1921 - Frank Scott, Fargo, North
Dakota, pianist; Lawrence
Welk Show
1921 - Jane
Russell, Bemidji,
Minnesota,
actor; Outlaw
1921 - Jean
Kent, London,
England,
actor; Adventures of Sir Francis Drake
1921 - Joan
Tetzel, NYC,
actor; Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning
1922 - Judy
Holliday, NYC,
actor; Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib
1923 - John
Compton, Lynchburg,
Tennessee,
actor; Shannon-D.A.'s Man
1924 - Wally
Fawkes, cartoonist, jazz clarinettist
1925 - Maureen
Stapleton, Troy,
NY,
actor; Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite
1927 - Carl
Burton Stokes, Cleveland,
Ohio,
Mayor, TV newscaster
1928 - Judith
Raskin, NYC,
soprano; Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro
1928 - V. G. Yershov, cosmonaut
1929 - John Morgan, England,
ambassador to Mexico
1930 - Gerald
Kaufman, England,
MP
1930 - Patricia Lindop, radio biologist
1930 - Peter Marshall, London,
police commissioner
1931 - Lawrence
K Grossman, president NBC-TV News
1931 - Margaret
Heckler, US Secretary
of Health & Human Services, 1983-85
1932 - Sir
Bernard Ingham, press secretary to British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher
1932 - Lalo
Boris Schifrin, Buenos
Aires, Argentina,
composer
1932 - Ocie Lee O.C.
Smith, singer; Little Green Apples
1933 - Bernie
Kopell, NYC,
actor; Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl
1934 - Wulf Kirsten, Germany,
writer
1935 - Francoise
Sagan, aka Quoirez, Cajarc,
France,
novelist; Bonjour Trieste
1935 - Monte
Markham, Manatee,
Florida,
actor; Second Hundred Years, Dallas
1937 - Anna Davies, Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford
University
1938 - Dan
Burton, Repuplican Congressional
Representative, Indiana
1938 - Ron
Ely, Hereford,
Texas,
actor; Tarzan, Doc Savage
1939 - Charles Boone, composer
1940 - Joe
Flaherty, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania,
comedian, actor; SCTV, Blue Monday
1940 - Mariette
Hartley, NYC,
actor; Marooned
1941 - Pia J. Barendrecht, Indonesia,
actor; Pinokkio
1942 - Margorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky, Democrat Representative, Pennsylvania,
1993-95
1942 - William
Bradford Reynolds, Connecticut,
US
Assistant
Attorney General
1944 - Corinna
Tsopel, Athens,
Greece,
Miss
Universe 1964, actor; Man Called Horse
1944 - Jon
Hiseman, drummer; Colosseum
1944 - Miguel Danus, musician; Los
Bravos
1944 - Ray
Davies, London,
singer, guitarist; The
Kinks
1945 - Chris Britton, England,
rock guitarist; The
Troggs - Wild Thing
1946 - Brenda
Holloway, singer, songwriter; When I'm Gone
1946 - Kate
Hoey, England,
MP
1946 - Sir
Malcolm Rifkind, England,
QC, MP, Secretary of State for Defense
1946 - Maurice
Saatchi, Baghdad,
Iraq,
English advertising CEO; Saatchi
& Saatchi
1947 - Dana
Rohrabacher, Republican Congressional
Representative, California
1947 - Lex
van Delden, Netherlands,
actor; Soldier of Orange
1947 - Meredith
Baxter-Birney, California,
actor; Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie
1947 - Michael
Gross, Chicago,
Illinois,
actor; Family Ties, FBI Murders
1948 - Joey
Malland, Liverpool,
England,
guitarist; The Assassins, The Profiles, Badfinger
1948 - Leo
Sayer, singer, songwriter; You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
1949 - Jim Bacchus, Democrat Congressional
Representative, Florida
1950 - Joey Kramer, NYC,
drummer; Aerosmith
1951 - Nils
Lofgren, Chicago,
guitarist, singer, songwriter; Crazy
Horse, E Street Band
1953 - Benazir
Bhutto, Prime Minister, Pakistan,
1st female leader of a Moslem nation
1953 - Robyn
Douglass, Sendai,
Japan,
actor; Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy
1954 - Anne
Kirkbridge, actor; Deidre-Coronation Street
1954 - Robert
Pastorelli, Brooklyn,
NY,
actor; Eldin-Murphy Brown
1955 - David
Marshall Grant, Westport,
Connecticut,
actor; Legs, French Postcards
1955 - Leigh
J. McCloskey, Los
Angeles, actor; Dallas, Executive Suite, General Hospital
1957 - Berkeley
Breathed, cartoonist; Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland
1957 - Mark
Brzezicki, drummer; The
Cult, Big
Country, Red
Rider
1958 - Gennadi
Ivanovich Padalka, Russia,
Major, Cosmonaut; Soyuz
TM-28
1959 - Kathy
Mattea, country singer; Love at the Five & Dime
1961 - Kip
Winger, rock musician; Winger
1962 - Marc
Copage, Los
Angeles, actor; Corey Baker-Julia
1964 - Doug
Savant, Burbank,
California,
actor; Matt Fielding-Melrose Place
1964 - Kari
Kennell, Colorado,
playmate 1988/actor; Eric's Revenge
1964 - Sammi
Davis-Voss, Kidderminster, England,
actor; Hope & Glory
1965 - Michael
Dolan, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma,
actor; Hamburger Hill, Liberace
1966 - Nan
Woods, actor; One More Saturday Night
1967 - Nicole
Kidman, Honolulu,
Hawaii,
actor; Dead Calm, Far & Away
1967 - Tim Simenson, rock musician; Bomb
the Bass
1968 - Brandon
Douglas, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma,
actor; Dr Quinn, Father's Homecoming
1971 - Dipendra
Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince, son of King of Nepal
1973 - Juliette
Lewis, Los
Angeles, actor; Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear
1976 - Natalia Cronenbold Aguilera, Bolivia,
Miss
Universe, 1996
1982 - William
of Wales, son of Prince
Charles & Lady
Dianna Spencer
Deaths
0524 - Chlodomir,
King of France
& Orleans,
511-24, at 28
1208 - Philip
van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman, German
King
1377 - Edward
III, King of England,
1327-77
1527 - Niccoli
Machiavelli, Florence,
statesman, author, at 57
1529 - John
Skelton, England,
poet, at 69
1573 - Antonie van Burgundy,
Mayor of Sealand, in battle
1591 - Aloysius
Luigi van Gonzaga, Prince, Italy,
Jesuit
saint
1874 - Anders
Jonas Angstrom, Sweden,
astronomer, physicist, Ä unit, at 59
1876 - Antonio
Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexico,
general at The
Alamo, at 79
1884 - Alexander
of the Netherlands Prince of Orange, last male descendent of
Johan W. Friso
1887 - Adolf Schimon, composer, pianist, at 67
1900 - Polibo Fumagalli, composer, at 69
1908 - Nikolai
Andreyevich Rimski-Korssakov, Russia,
composer; Sheherazade, at 64
1913 - Stefan O Iosif, Romania,
poet; Beautiful Irine, at 37
1914 - Glauco
Velasquez, composer, at 30
1925 - Jan H. Leopold, poet, translator of Omar
Khayyam, at 60
1934 - James
Thorne Smith, US,
sci-fi author; Stray Lamb, Turnabout
1940 - Jean
Edouard Vuillard, France,
painter, graphic artist, at 71
1940 - Hendrik
Marsman, Netherlands,
poet, writer, critic, drowns at 40
1940 - W. Hasenclever, writer, at 49
1944 - Jan Bonekamp, Netherlands,
resistance fighter, friend of Hannie
Schaft, resistance fighter
1945 - Josef Hora, Czech
Republic, writer, poet; Sinking Shadows, at 53
1946 - Heinrich Kaminski, composer, at 59
1957 - Don
McBride, actor; Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka, at 68
1957 - Frantisek
Kupka, Czech
Republic, painter, at 85
1964 - Andrew
Goodman, US
civil rights activist, murdered at 20 in Mississippi
1964 - James
Chaney, US
civil rights activist, murdered at 21 in Mississippi
1964 - Michael
Schwerner, US
civil rights activist, murder at 21 in Mississippi
1965 - Bernard
M. Baruch, Presidential advisor, coined the term Cold
War, at 94
1968 - Ruth
St. Denis, ballerina; Dances of the 5 Senses, at 91
1970 - Achmed
Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia,
1945-67, at 68
1972 - Seth
Bingham, composer, at 90
1975 - Heinz Lau, composer, at 49
1979 - Julian
Orchard, actor; Perfect Friday, Bless this House, at
49
1981 - Gunnar Ekelof, composer, on 81st birthday
1983 - Anton G. J. van de Velde, Flemish
writer, director; Tijl, at 87
1989 - Simon
van Collem, Netherlands,
journalist, TV host, at 70
1992 - Li
Xiannian, China,
President, 1983-88
1992 - Thomas
Whitfield, gospel vocalist, heart attack at 38
1993 - Frank
Moro, actor
1993 - Jerry
Strivelli, actor; Out for Justice, Lock Up, at 61
1994 - Master
Corporal Mark Robert Isfeld, combat engineer, in Coatia
at 31
1995 - Kenneth Henry Lowry Lamb, broadcaster, at 71
1995 - Tristan
Jones, sailor, at 71
1997 - Art
Prysock, jazz,
blues
singer, at 68
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