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Tuesday 21 June 2016

Today In History [21st June, 2016]


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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