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Birthday June 21, 1732 Martha Washington-1st, 1st lady |
Birthday June 21, 1774 Daniel D. Tompkins, (D-R), 6th VP (1817-25) |
Birthday June 21, 1882 Rockwell Kent, artist |
Birthday June 21, 1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian |
Birthday June 21, 1903 Dorothy Stickney, Actress |
Birthday June 21, 1903 Al Hirschfeld, Cartoonist |
Birthday June 21, 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, writer (Nobel 1964; declined) |
Birthday June 21, 1912 Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Group) |
Birthday June 21, 1921 Jane Russell, full-figured gal Bemidji Minn, (Outlaw) |
Birthday June 21, 1922 Judy Holliday |
Birthday June 21, 1925 Maureen Stapleton, in Troy NY |
Birthday June 21, 1927 Carl Stokes, mayor of Cleveland |
Birthday June 21, 1930 Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland) |
Birthday June 21, 1931 Margaret Heckler, former HEW secretary |
Birthday June 21, 1931 Lawrence K Grossman, NBC News president |
Birthday June 21, 1933 Bernie Kopell, (Love Boat) |
Birthday June 21, 1935 Monte Markham, Actor |
Birthday June 21, 1935 Fran‡oise Sagan, French novelist |
Birthday June 21, 1938 Ron Ely, (Tarzan) |
Birthday June 21, 1940 Joe Flaherty, Comedian (2nd City) |
Birthday June 21, 1940 Mariette Hartley, (Poloroid spokesperson) |
Birthday June 21, 1944 Ray Davies, a kinky singer |
Birthday June 21, 1947 Meredith Baxter-Birney, in California (Family Ties) |
Birthday June 21, 1947 Michael Gross, (Family Ties) |
Birthday June 21, 1947 Mille Miglia race is reborn after World War II |
Birthday June 21, 1953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader |
Birthday June 21, 1982 Prince William, of Wales Prince Chuck & Lady Di's baby |
History June 21, 1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure - curse - & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views |
History June 21, 1779 Spain declares war against Great Britain |
History June 21, 1788 US Constitution went into effect as NH is 9th state to ratify it |
History June 21, 1805 Great Stoneface Mt found in NH |
History June 21, 1810 Zachary Taylor and Richard Nixon marry their future first ladies |
History June 21, 1813 French defeated in Spain |
History June 21, 1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine |
History June 21, 1864 Grant extends the Petersburg line |
History June 21, 1879 F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately) |
History June 21, 1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria |
History June 21, 1892 Lot Smith, Mormon soldier, is killed by Indians |
History June 21, 1894 workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company |
History June 21, 1916 Pershing attacked by Mexican troops |
History June 21, 1916 U.S. soldiers attacked by Mexican government troops |
History June 21, 1916 Red Sox George Foster no hits Yanks |
History June 21, 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded |
History June 21, 1920 Pickford and Fairbanks mobbed by crowds |
History June 21, 1930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7 |
History June 21, 1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit |
History June 21, 1939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic laterial sclerosis |
History June 21, 1942 Allies surrender at Tobruk, Libya |
History June 21, 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead |
History June 21, 1945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II |
History June 21, 1948 Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrated 'long playing record' |
History June 21, 1948 1st stored computer program run - on the Manchester Mark I |
History June 21, 1956 Arthur Miller refuses to name communists |
History June 21, 1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII |
History June 21, 1963 French withdraw navy from NATO |
History June 21, 1964 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail |
History June 21, 1964 Civil rights workers disappear |
History June 21, 1964 The KKK kills three civil rights activists |
History June 21, 1965 Mr. Tambourine Man is released, and the folk-rock revolution is on |
History June 21, 1966 Rolling Thunder raids continue |
History June 21, 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 |
History June 21, 1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns |
History June 21, 1969 Communists storm U.S. base near Tay Ninh |
History June 21, 1970 Pele leads Brazil over Italy |
History June 21, 1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth |
History June 21, 1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison |
History June 21, 1982 Wash DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity |
History June 21, 1982 Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity |
History June 21, 1985 American Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists announce skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele |
History June 21, 1986 Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments |
History June 21, 1990 Earthquake devastates Iran |