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June 21st, 2008 (June 21 2008) | Death | Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (born in 1962) | |
June 21st, 2007 (June 21 2007) | Death | Bob Evans, American restaurateur (born in 1918) | Evans Quotes |
June 21st, 2006 (June 21 2006) | Event | Pluto s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra. | |
June 21st, 2005 (June 21 2005) | Death | Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (born in 1928) | |
June 21st, 2004 (June 21 2004) | Event | SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. | |
June 21st, 2004 (June 21 2004) | Death | Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (born in 1922) | |
June 21st, 2003 (June 21 2003) | Death | Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (born in 1934) | |
June 21st, 2003 (June 21 2003) | Death | Leon Uris, American writer (born in 1924) | |
June 21st, 2003 (June 21 2003) | Death | Jason Moran, Australian criminal (born in 1967) | |
June 21st, 2001 (June 21 2001) | Event | 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. | |
June 21st, 2001 (June 21 2001) | Death | John Lee Hooker, American musician (born in 1916) | |
June 21st, 2001 (June 21 2001) | Death | Carroll O Connor, American actor (born in 1924) | |
June 21st, 2001 (June 21 2001) | Death | Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (born in 1942) | |
June 21st, 2000 (June 21 2000) | Event | Section 28 (outlawing the promotion of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. | |
June 21st, 2000 (June 21 2000) | Death | Alan Hovhaness, American composer (born in 1911) | |
June 21st, 1999 (June 21 1999) | Death | Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (born in 1973) | |
June 21st, 1998 (June 21 1998) | Death | Al Campanis, American baseball executive (born in 1916) | |
June 21st, 1997 (June 21 1997) | Death | Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (born in 1931) | |
June 21st, 1997 (June 21 1997) | Death | Fidel Velazquez Sanchez, Mexican labour leader (born in 1900) | |
June 21st, 1993 (June 21 1993) | Death | Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (born in 1928) | |
June 21st, 1987 (June 21 1987) | Birth | Dale Thomas, AFL footballer | |
June 21st, 1987 (June 21 1987) | Birth | Kim Ryeowook, Korean pop singer | |
June 21st, 1987 (June 21 1987) | Birth | Sebastian Prodl, Austrian footballer | |
June 21st, 1987 (June 21 1987) | Death | Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor (born in 1914) | |
June 21st, 1986 (June 21 1986) | Death | Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (born in 1923) | |
June 21st, 1985 (June 21 1985) | Birth | Anthony Morelli, American football player | |
June 21st, 1985 (June 21 1985) | Birth | Byron Schammer, AFL footballer | |
June 21st, 1985 (June 21 1985) | Death | Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (born in 1901) | |
June 21st, 1984 (June 21 1984) | Birth | Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress | |
June 21st, 1984 (June 21 1984) | Birth | Franck Perera, French racing driver | |
June 21st, 1982 (June 21 1982) | Event | John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
June 21st, 1982 (June 21 1982) | Birth | Prince William of Wales, British prince | |
June 21st, 1981 (June 21 1981) | Birth | Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers) | |
June 21st, 1981 (June 21 1981) | Birth | Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player | |
June 21st, 1980 (June 21 1980) | Birth | Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player | |
June 21st, 1980 (June 21 1980) | Birth | Richard Jefferson, American basketball player | |
June 21st, 1980 (June 21 1980) | Death | Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (born in 1923) | |
June 21st, 1979 (June 21 1979) | Birth | Kostas , Greek footballer | |
June 21st, 1979 (June 21 1979) | Birth | Chris Pratt, American actor | |
June 21st, 1979 (June 21 1979) | Death | Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (born in 1938) | |
June 21st, 1978 (June 21 1978) | Birth | Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer | |
June 21st, 1978 (June 21 1978) | Birth | Jack Guzman, American actor | |
June 21st, 1978 (June 21 1978) | Birth | Erica Durance, Canadian actress | |
June 21st, 1978 (June 21 1978) | Birth | Dejan Ognjanovic, Montenegrin football player | |
June 21st, 1977 (June 21 1977) | Birth | Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player | |
June 21st, 1976 (June 21 1976) | Birth | Antonio Cochran, American football player | |
June 21st, 1976 (June 21 1976) | Birth | Mike Einziger, American musician | |
June 21st, 1976 (June 21 1976) | Birth | Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer | |
June 21st, 1976 (June 21 1976) | Death | Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (born in 1902) | |
June 21st, 1974 (June 21 1974) | Birth | Natasha Desborough, British radio personality | |
June 21st, 1974 (June 21 1974) | Birth | Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver | |
June 21st, 1974 (June 21 1974) | Birth | Rob Kelly, American football player | |
June 21st, 1973 (June 21 1973) | Event | In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law. | |
June 21st, 1973 (June 21 1973) | Birth | Juliette Lewis, American actress | |
June 21st, 1972 (June 21 1972) | Birth | Alon Hilu, Israeli writer | |
June 21st, 1972 (June 21 1972) | Birth | Neil Doak, former Irish cricketer | |
June 21st, 1971 (June 21 1971) | Birth | Marianne Lie Berg, Norwegian philosopher | Philo Quotes |
June 21st, 1971 (June 21 1971) | Birth | Anette Olzon, Swedish singer | |
June 21st, 1970 (June 21 1970) | Birth | Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress | |
June 21st, 1970 (June 21 1970) | Birth | Pete Rock, American rapper/producer | |
June 21st, 1970 (June 21 1970) | Death | Sukarno, President of Indonesia (born in 1901) | |
June 21st, 1969 (June 21 1969) | Birth | Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier | |
June 21st, 1969 (June 21 1969) | Death | Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (born in 1934) | |
June 21st, 1968 (June 21 1968) | Birth | Sonique, British DJ | |
June 21st, 1968 (June 21 1968) | Birth | Alisyn Camerota, American journalist | |
June 21st, 1968 (June 21 1968) | Birth | Gretchen Carlson, American journalist | |
June 21st, 1967 (June 21 1967) | Birth | Jim Breuer, American comedian | |
June 21st, 1967 (June 21 1967) | Birth | Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American billionaire | |
June 21st, 1967 (June 21 1967) | Birth | Derrick Coleman, American basketball player | |
June 21st, 1966 (June 21 1966) | Birth | Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist | |
June 21st, 1966 (June 21 1966) | Birth | Mancow Muller, American radio personality | |
June 21st, 1966 (June 21 1966) | Birth | Nan Woods, American actress | |
June 21st, 1965 (June 21 1965) | Birth | Larry Wachowski, film director | |
June 21st, 1965 (June 21 1965) | Birth | Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut | |
June 21st, 1964 (June 21 1964) | Event | Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. | |
June 21st, 1964 (June 21 1964) | Event | Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies throws a perfect game againist the New York Mets and becomes the seventh pitcher to do so. | |
June 21st, 1964 (June 21 1964) | Birth | Sammi Davis, British actress | |
June 21st, 1964 (June 21 1964) | Birth | David Morrissey, British actor | Morrissey Quotes |
June 21st, 1964 (June 21 1964) | Birth | Doug Savant, American actor | |
June 21st, 1964 (June 21 1964) | Death | James Chaney, American civil rights activist (born in 1943) | |
June 21st, 1964 (June 21 1964) | Death | Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (born in 1943) | |
June 21st, 1964 (June 21 1964) | Death | Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (born in 1939) | |
June 21st, 1962 (June 21 1962) | Birth | Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician | |
June 21st, 1962 (June 21 1962) | Birth | Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver | |
June 21st, 1961 (June 21 1961) | Birth | Kip Winger, American musician | |
June 21st, 1961 (June 21 1961) | Birth | Manu Chao, Spanish musician | |
June 21st, 1961 (June 21 1961) | Birth | Sascha Konietzko, German musician | |
June 21st, 1961 (June 21 1961) | Birth | Karen Barber,Ice Skater and Dancing on Ice Judge | |
June 21st, 1959 (June 21 1959) | Birth | Tom Chambers, American basketball player | |
June 21st, 1959 (June 21 1959) | Birth | Marcella Detroit, singer and songwriter (Shakespear s Sister) | |
June 21st, 1959 (June 21 1959) | Birth | Kathy Mattea, American country singer | |
June 21st, 1958 (June 21 1958) | Birth | Gennady Padalka, cosmonaut | |
June 21st, 1957 (June 21 1957) | Event | Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada s first woman Cabinet Minister. | |
June 21st, 1957 (June 21 1957) | Birth | Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author | |
June 21st, 1957 (June 21 1957) | Birth | Lucien DeBlois, professional ice hockey player | |
June 21st, 1957 (June 21 1957) | Death | Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1874) | |
June 21st, 1955 (June 21 1955) | Birth | Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer | |
June 21st, 1955 (June 21 1955) | Birth | Leigh McCloskey, American actor | |
June 21st, 1955 (June 21 1955) | Birth | Michel Platini, French footballer | |
June 21st, 1954 (June 21 1954) | Birth | Mujde Ar, Turkish actress | |
June 21st, 1954 (June 21 1954) | Birth | Mark Kimmitt, US Army general | |
June 21st, 1954 (June 21 1954) | Birth | Anne Kirkbride, English actress | |
June 21st, 1954 (June 21 1954) | Birth | Robert Menasse, Austrian writer | |
June 21st, 1954 (June 21 1954) | Birth | Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (died in 1999) | |
June 21st, 1954 (June 21 1954) | Birth | Robert Pastorelli, American actor (died in 2004) | |
June 21st, 1954 (June 21 1954) | Death | Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (born in 1880) | |
June 21st, 1953 (June 21 1953) | Birth | Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (died in 2007) | |
June 21st, 1953 (June 21 1953) | Birth | Michael Bowen, American actor | |
June 21st, 1952 (June 21 1952) | Event | Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. | |
June 21st, 1952 (June 21 1952) | Birth | Koichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director | |
June 21st, 1952 (June 21 1952) | Death | Wilfrid Wop May, Canadian aviation pioneer (born in 1896) | |
June 21st, 1951 (June 21 1951) | Birth | Nils Lofgren, American musician | |
June 21st, 1951 (June 21 1951) | Death | Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (born in 1867) | |
June 21st, 1950 (June 21 1950) | Birth | Anne Carson, Canadian poet | |
June 21st, 1950 (June 21 1950) | Birth | Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith) | |
June 21st, 1950 (June 21 1950) | Birth | Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and musician | |
June 21st, 1950 (June 21 1950) | Birth | Gerard Lanvin, French actor | |
June 21st, 1948 (June 21 1948) | Event | The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory. | |
June 21st, 1948 (June 21 1948) | Event | Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. | |
June 21st, 1948 (June 21 1948) | Birth | Ian McEwan, English writer | |
June 21st, 1948 (June 21 1948) | Birth | Lionel Rose, Australian boxer | |
June 21st, 1948 (June 21 1948) | Birth | Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer | |
June 21st, 1947 (June 21 1947) | Birth | Meredith Baxter, American actress | |
June 21st, 1947 (June 21 1947) | Birth | Michael Gross, American actor | |
June 21st, 1947 (June 21 1947) | Birth | Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate | Shirin Ebadi Quotes |
June 21st, 1947 (June 21 1947) | Birth | Joey Molland, English musician (Badfinger) | |
June 21st, 1946 (June 21 1946) | Birth | Brenda Holloway, American musician | |
June 21st, 1945 (June 21 1945) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends. | |
June 21st, 1945 (June 21 1945) | Birth | Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher, poet | Philo Quotes |
June 21st, 1944 (June 21 1944) | Birth | Ray Davies, English musician (The Kinks) | |
June 21st, 1944 (June 21 1944) | Birth | Corinna Tsopei, Greek beauty pageant winner, the first Greek Miss Universe | |
June 21st, 1943 (June 21 1943) | Birth | Salome, Spanish singer | |
June 21st, 1942 (June 21 1942) | Event | World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces. | |
June 21st, 1942 (June 21 1942) | Event | World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland. | |
June 21st, 1942 (June 21 1942) | Birth | Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official | |
June 21st, 1942 (June 21 1942) | Birth | Dan Henning, American football player | |
June 21st, 1942 (June 21 1942) | Birth | Henry S. Taylor, American writer | |
June 21st, 1941 (June 21 1941) | Birth | Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor | |
June 21st, 1941 (June 21 1941) | Birth | Lyman Ward, Canadian actor | |
June 21st, 1940 (June 21 1940) | Event | The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia. | |
June 21st, 1940 (June 21 1940) | Birth | Mariette Hartley, American actress | |
June 21st, 1940 (June 21 1940) | Birth | Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher | Philo Quotes |
June 21st, 1940 (June 21 1940) | Death | Smedley Butler, American Marine general (born in 1881) | Smedley Butler Quotes |
June 21st, 1939 (June 21 1939) | Birth | Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician | |
June 21st, 1938 (June 21 1938) | Birth | Ron Ely, American actor | |
June 21st, 1935 (June 21 1935) | Birth | Francoise Sagan, French writer (died in 2004) | |
June 21st, 1934 (June 21 1934) | Death | Thorne Smith, American author (born in 1892) | |
June 21st, 1932 (June 21 1932) | Birth | O.C. Smith, American singer (died in 2001) | |
June 21st, 1932 (June 21 1932) | Birth | Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer | |
June 21st, 1931 (June 21 1931) | Birth | Margaret Mary O Shaughnessy Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | |
June 21st, 1930 (June 21 1930) | Birth | Sir Gerald Kaufman, British politician | |
June 21st, 1930 (June 21 1930) | Birth | Mike McCormack, American professional football player | |
June 21st, 1929 (June 21 1929) | Birth | Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (died in 1977) | |
June 21st, 1929 (June 21 1929) | Birth | Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (died in 1999) | |
June 21st, 1927 (June 21 1927) | Birth | Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (died in 1996) | |
June 21st, 1926 (June 21 1926) | Birth | Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (died in 2003) | |
June 21st, 1925 (June 21 1925) | Birth | Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (died in 1994) | |
June 21st, 1925 (June 21 1925) | Birth | Maureen Stapleton, American actress (died in 2006) | |
June 21st, 1924 (June 21 1924) | Birth | Pontus Hulten, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director (died in 2006) | |
June 21st, 1924 (June 21 1924) | Birth | Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker | |
June 21st, 1924 (June 21 1924) | Birth | Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died in 2007) | |
June 21st, 1923 (June 21 1923) | Birth | Jacques Hebert, French Canadian author, journalist and politician | |
June 21st, 1921 (June 21 1921) | Birth | Judy Holliday, American actress (died in 1965) | |
June 21st, 1921 (June 21 1921) | Birth | Jane Russell, American actress | |
June 21st, 1921 (June 21 1921) | Birth | Jean de Broglie, French politician | |
June 21st, 1919 (June 21 1919) | Event | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike. | |
June 21st, 1919 (June 21 1919) | Event | Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of World War I. | |
June 21st, 1919 (June 21 1919) | Birth | Gerard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (died in 1997) | |
June 21st, 1919 (June 21 1919) | Birth | Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess master and teacher (died in 1968) | |
June 21st, 1919 (June 21 1919) | Birth | Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect | |
June 21st, 1918 (June 21 1918) | Birth | James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist (died in 1995) | |
June 21st, 1916 (June 21 1916) | Birth | Joseph Cyril Bamford, English inventor and industrialist (died in 2001) | |
June 21st, 1916 (June 21 1916) | Birth | Buddy O Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 1977) | |
June 21st, 1915 (June 21 1915) | Event | 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. | |
June 21st, 1914 (June 21 1914) | Birth | William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1996) | |
June 21st, 1914 (June 21 1914) | Death | Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1843) | |
June 21st, 1912 (June 21 1912) | Birth | Mary McCarthy, American writer (died in 1989) | Mary McCarthy Quotes |
June 21st, 1912 (June 21 1912) | Birth | Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot and officer of the Home Army s intelligence and counter-intelligence (died in 2000) | |
June 21st, 1910 (June 21 1910) | Birth | Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (died in 1971) | |
June 21st, 1908 (June 21 1908) | Birth | William Frankena, American philosopher (died in 1994) | Philo Quotes |
June 21st, 1908 (June 21 1908) | Death | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (born in 1844) | |
June 21st, 1906 (June 21 1906) | Birth | Harold Spina, American composer (died in 1997) | |
June 21st, 1905 (June 21 1905) | Birth | Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (died in 1980) | Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes |
June 21st, 1903 (June 21 1903) | Birth | Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (died in 2003) | |
June 21st, 1902 (June 21 1902) | Birth | Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (died in 1937) | |
June 21st, 1898 (June 21 1898) | Event | Guam becomes a U.S. territory. | |
June 21st, 1898 (June 21 1898) | Birth | Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (died in 1964) | |
June 21st, 1896 (June 21 1896) | Birth | Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (died in 1967) | |
June 21st, 1893 (June 21 1893) | Birth | Alois Haba, Czech composer (died in 1973) | Alois Haba Quotes |
June 21st, 1893 (June 21 1893) | Death | Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University | |
June 21st, 1892 (June 21 1892) | Birth | Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (died in 1971) | Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes |
June 21st, 1891 (June 21 1891) | Birth | Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (died in 1979) | |
June 21st, 1891 (June 21 1891) | Birth | Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (died in 1966) | |
June 21st, 1890 (June 21 1890) | Birth | Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (died in 1959) | |
June 21st, 1889 (June 21 1889) | Birth | Ralph Craig, American athlete (died in 1972) | |
June 21st, 1887 (June 21 1887) | Birth | Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (died in 1956) | |
June 21st, 1884 (June 21 1884) | Birth | Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (died in 1981) | |
June 21st, 1883 (June 21 1883) | Birth | Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (died in 1958) | |
June 21st, 1882 (June 21 1882) | Birth | Rockwell Kent, American artist (died in 1971) | |
June 21st, 1882 (June 21 1882) | Birth | Lluis Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (died in 1940) | |
June 21st, 1880 (June 21 1880) | Birth | Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (died in 1961) | |
June 21st, 1880 (June 21 1880) | Birth | Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (died in 1941) | |
June 21st, 1879 (June 21 1879) | Birth | Gemma Doyle, Victorian Debutante, developer of the Realms theology (died in 1949) | |
June 21st, 1877 (June 21 1877) | Event | The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons. | |
June 21st, 1876 (June 21 1876) | Birth | Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (died in 1956) | |
June 21st, 1874 (June 21 1874) | Death | Anders Jonas Angstrom, Swedish physicist (born in 1814) | |
June 21st, 1870 (June 21 1870) | Birth | Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (died in 1915) | |
June 21st, 1868 (June 21 1868) | Birth | Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (died in 1946) | |
June 21st, 1865 (June 21 1865) | Death | Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (born in 1824) | |
June 21st, 1864 (June 21 1864) | Event | New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends. | |
June 21st, 1864 (June 21 1864) | Birth | Heinrich Wolfflin, Swiss art historian (died in 1945) | |
June 21st, 1863 (June 21 1863) | Birth | Max Wolf, German astronomer (died in 1932) | |
June 21st, 1862 (June 21 1862) | Birth | Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (died in 1943) | |
June 21st, 1859 (June 21 1859) | Birth | Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (died in 1937) | |
June 21st, 1858 (June 21 1858) | Birth | Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (died in 1928) | |
June 21st, 1854 (June 21 1854) | Event | First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands. | |
June 21st, 1850 (June 21 1850) | Birth | Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (died in 1941) | |
June 21st, 1839 (June 21 1839) | Birth | Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (died in 1908) | |
June 21st, 1828 (June 21 1828) | Birth | Ferdinand Andre Fouque, French geologist (died in 1904) | |
June 21st, 1826 (June 21 1826) | Event | Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas. | |
June 21st, 1825 (June 21 1825) | Birth | William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (died in 1901) | |
June 21st, 1824 (June 21 1824) | Event | Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea. | |
June 21st, 1824 (June 21 1824) | Death | Etienne Aignan, French writer (born in 1773) | |
June 21st, 1823 (June 21 1823) | Birth | Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (died in 1873) | |
June 21st, 1813 (June 21 1813) | Event | Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria. | |
June 21st, 1813 (June 21 1813) | Event | Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812. | |
June 21st, 1812 (June 21 1812) | Birth | Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (died in 1875) | |
June 21st, 1811 (June 21 1811) | Birth | Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (died in 1868) | |
June 21st, 1805 (June 21 1805) | Birth | Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (died in 1880) | Thomas Jackson Quotes |
June 21st, 1798 (June 21 1798) | Event | Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. | |
June 21st, 1798 (June 21 1798) | Birth | Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (died in 1873) | |
June 21st, 1796 (June 21 1796) | Death | Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (born in 1710) | Eric Idle Quotes |
June 21st, 1791 (June 21 1791) | Birth | Robert Napier, British engineer (died in 1876) | |
June 21st, 1788 (June 21 1788) | Event | New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States. | |
June 21st, 1788 (June 21 1788) | Birth | Princess Augusta of Bavaria (died in 1850) | |
June 21st, 1782 (June 21 1782) | Birth | Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (died in 1852) | |
June 21st, 1781 (June 21 1781) | Birth | Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (died in 1840) | |
June 21st, 1774 (June 21 1774) | Birth | Daniel D. Tompkins, Congressman, Governor of New York, and sixth Vice President of the United States (died in 1825) | |
June 21st, 1764 (June 21 1764) | Birth | Sidney Smith, British admiral (died in 1840) | |
June 21st, 1763 (June 21 1763) | Birth | Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher (died in 1845) | Philo Quotes |
June 21st, 1759 (June 21 1759) | Birth | Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (died in 1817) | |
June 21st, 1749 (June 21 1749) | Event | Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. | |
June 21st, 1738 (June 21 1738) | Death | Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (born in 1674) | |
June 21st, 1734 (June 21 1734) | Event | In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angelique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand. | |
June 21st, 1732 (June 21 1732) | Birth | Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (died in 1791) | |
June 21st, 1730 (June 21 1730) | Birth | Motoori Norinaga, Japanese scholar (died in 1801) | |
June 21st, 1712 (June 21 1712) | Birth | Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (died in 1790) | |
June 21st, 1665 (June 21 1665) | Event | The first soldiers of Le Regiment de Carignan-Salieres arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories. | |
June 21st, 1652 (June 21 1652) | Death | Inigo Jones, English architect (born in 1573) | |
June 21st, 1646 (June 21 1646) | Birth | Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (died in 1683) | |
June 21st, 1621 (June 21 1621) | Event | Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain. | |
June 21st, 1621 (June 21 1621) | Death | Krystof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (born in 1564) | |
June 21st, 1591 (June 21 1591) | Death | Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (born in 1568) | |
June 21st, 1582 (June 21 1582) | Event | The Incident at Honno-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan. | |
June 21st, 1582 (June 21 1582) | Death | Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (born in 1534) | |
June 21st, 1547 (June 21 1547) | Death | Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (born in 1485) | |
June 21st, 1535 (June 21 1535) | Birth | Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (died in 1596) | |
June 21st, 1529 (June 21 1529) | Death | John Skelton, English poet | John Skelton Quotes |
June 21st, 1528 (June 21 1528) | Birth | Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603) | |
June 21st, 1527 (June 21 1527) | Death | Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (born in 1469) | Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
June 21st, 1377 (June 21 1377) | Death | King Edward III of England (born in 1312) | |
June 21st, 1305 (June 21 1305) | Death | King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (born in 1271) | |
June 21st, 1226 (June 21 1226) | Birth | King Boleslaus V of Poland (died in 1279) | |
June 21st, 1002 (June 21 1002) | Birth | Pope Leo IX (died in 1054) | |
June 21st, 0524 (June 21 0524) | Event | Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vezeronce. | |