Today in History
June 21
1667 | The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English. | |
1675 | Christopher Wren begins work on rebuilding St. Paul’s Cathedral in London after the Great Fire. | |
1791 | The French royal family is arrested in Varennes. | |
1834 | C. H. McCormick patents the first practical reaper. | |
1862 | Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the Chickahominy Creek. | |
1863 | In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fails to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing. | |
1887 | Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria. | |
1900 | General Arthur MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule. | |
1908 | Mulai Hafid again proclaims himself the true sultan of Morocco. | |
1911 | Porforio Diaz, the ex-president of Mexico, exiles himself to Paris. | |
1915 | Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest. | |
1919 | Germans scuttle their own fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland. | |
1939 | Baseball legend Lou Gehrig is forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis–a disease which wastes muscles. | |
1942 | German General Erwin Rommel captures the port city of Tobruk in North Africa. | |
1945 | Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to American troops. | |
1948 | Dr. Peter Goldmark demonstrates his “long-playing” record. | |
1958 | A federal judge allows Little Rock, Arkansas to delay school integration. | |
1963 | France announces it will withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic. | |
1964 | Three civil rights workers disappear in Meridian, Mississippi. | |
1982 | John Hinckley Jr. is found not guilty by reason of insanity for attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. | |
1995 | The U.S. Senate votes against the nomination of Dr. Henry W. Foster for Surgeon General. | |
Born on June 21 | ||
1764 | William Sydney Smith, British seaman during the Napoleonic Wars. | |
1859 | Henry Ossawa Tanner, African-American painter. | |
1880 | Arnold Lucius Gesell, psychologist and pediatrician. | |
1882 | Rockwell Kent, artist, book illustrator. | |
1892 | Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian. | |
1905 | Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and existentialist. | |
1911 | Albert Hirschfeld, illustrator. | |
1912 | Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Memories of Catholic Girlhood, The Group). | |
1922 | Judy Holliday, actress. | |
1927 | Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. | |
1928 | Judith Raskin, soprano. |
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