Notable Historical Events on June 21st
June 21st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 at Landriano: Leyva beats France |
1547 |
Great fire in Moscow |
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, Jamestown |
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 |
Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England |
1672 |
Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded |
1672 |
French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht |
1684 |
King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter |
1734 |
In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of 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 that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand. |
1749 |
Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Netherlands |
1749 |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. |
1768 |
1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer) |
1788 |
US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify |
1788 |
Vizille France population demands local parliament |
1791 |
Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne |
1792 |
Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC |
1805 |
Great Stoneface Mt found in NH |
1813 |
Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria. |
1821 |
African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC) |
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. |
1834 |
American inventor and businessman Cyrus Hall McCormick patents the reaping machine |
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 |
F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately) |
1887 |
Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria |
1893 |
1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition) |
1894 |
Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company |
1895 |
British Roseberry government falls |
1898 |
Guam becomes a territory of US |
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 |
1903 |
Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG) |
1904 |
Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) |
1904 |
The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls 'malefactors of great wealth' |
1907 |
13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA |
1907 |
E W Scripps founded United Press |
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 beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing |
1916 |
President Carranza orders his troops to oppose American soldiers at Carrazil, Mexico; 18 American soldiers are killed or wounded |
1917 |
Hawaiian Red Cross forms |
1919 |
Bauer forms German government |
1919 |
German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet |
1921 |
HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen |
1923 |
Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud |
1924 |
NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms |
1930 |
Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7 |
1932 |
Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (NYC) |
1932 |
Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
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 |
1938 |
Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire |
1939 |
NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
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 |
President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC |
1942 |
Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa |
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 during WW II |
1946 |
10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas |
1946 |
Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million |
1946 |
Fed judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman |
1948 |
1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I |
1948 |
33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records) |
1948 |
Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India, formerly the last Viceroy |
1948 |
Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens |
1948 |
WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit |
1951 |
"17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances |
1951 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
1952 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
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) |
1955 |
Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!" |
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 |
Louis St. Laurent resigns as Prime Minister of Canada, ending the longest uninterrupted run at the federal level in Canadian history |
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 |
Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII |
1964 |
Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later |
1964 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open |
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 H Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chane, disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail |
1965 |
65th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St Louis |
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 |
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns |
1969 |
1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace) |
1969 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
1969 |
John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) |
1969 |
Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525" |
1970 |
70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine Natl Minn |
1970 |
Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City) |
1970 |
Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892 |
1970 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
1971 |
50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana |
1971 |
71st US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion GC in Ardmore PA |
1971 |
Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf |
1971 |
Intl Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia |
1975 |
"Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens |
1975 |
Elton John, Eagles & Beach Boys play Wembley |
1975 |
Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow |
1975 |
Soyuz 19 returns to Earth |
1975 |
West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
1976 |
Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy |
1977 |
Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison |
1977 |
Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel's 6th PM |
1978 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita" premiers in London |
1978 |
The British Army shoot 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 |
81st US Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion GC in Ardmore Pa |
1981 |
Don Fagan & Walter Becker quit Steely Dan |
1981 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf |
1981 |
Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200 |
1981 |
Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election |
1982 |
Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away" |
1982 |
John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity |
1983 |
Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1983 |
Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery |
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 |
Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with KC Royals |
1986 |
Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) |
1986 |
President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments |
1987 |
87th US Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in SF |
1987 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1987 |
Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB |
1987 |
Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant |
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 |
1989 |
Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret & Polonia |
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 & proclaims "I am a Yankee!" |
1991 |
Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia |
1991 |
NY Islanders Denis Potvin & Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame |
1992 |
92nd US Golf Open: Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL Calif |
1992 |
Danielle Ammaccapan wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1992 |
Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham & Allan Lamb |
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 |
1994 |
Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal) |
1997 |
"Defending the Caveman," closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 perfs |
1997 |
35th NHL draft Boston picks center Joe Thornton 1st |
1997 |
Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks |
1998 |
98th US Golf Open: Lee Janzen shoots a 280 at Olympic Club SF |
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. |
2002 |
Lennox Lewis retains boxing's WBC world Heavyweight crown with an eight round knockout over Mike Tyson |
2004 |
SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. |
2006 |
Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra. |
2012 |
Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe |
2012 |
A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued |
2012 |
Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to one |
2012 |
66th NBA Championship: Miami Heat beat Oklahoma City Thunder, 4 games to 1 |
2013 |
15 people are killed and 20 are injured after a suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan |
2016 |
Millions Across India Take Part in International Yoga Day |
2016 |
UN Releases $15 Million to Help Iraqis Fleeing Fallujah |
2016 |
Cleveland welcomes home Cavaliers for title celebration at airport |
2016 |
Man arrested as 12 girls found in US house |
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