June 21st Events |
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June 21st, 2006 (June 21 2006) | Event | Pluto s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra. | |
June 21st, 2004 (June 21 2004) | Event | SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. | |
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June 21st, 2000 (June 21 2000) | Event | Section 28 (outlawing the promotion of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.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, 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, 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, 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, 1957 (June 21 1957) | Event | Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada s first woman Cabinet Minister. | |
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, 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, 1945 (June 21 1945) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends. | |
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, 1940 (June 21 1940) | Event | The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia. | |
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, 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, 1898 (June 21 1898) | Event | Guam becomes a U.S. territory. | |
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, 1864 (June 21 1864) | Event | New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends. | |
June 21st, 1854 (June 21 1854) | Event | First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands. | |
June 21st, 1826 (June 21 1826) | Event | Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas. | |
June 21st, 1824 (June 21 1824) | Event | Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea. | |
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, 1798 (June 21 1798) | Event | Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. | |
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, 1749 (June 21 1749) | Event | Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. | |
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, 1665 (June 21 1665) | Event | The first soldiers of Le Regiment de Carignan-Salieres arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories. | |
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, 1582 (June 21 1582) | Event | The Incident at Honno-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan. | |
June 21st, 0524 (June 21 0524) | Event | Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vezeronce. | |