Historical Events on June 21

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• 524 Godomar, King of the Burgundians, defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce
• 1128 Battle of Thielt (Axpoel): William Clito of Normandy defeats the forces of Thierry of Alsace

• 1498 Jews are expelled from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian
• 1529 Battle of Landriano: Imperial-Spanish forces under Don Antonio de Leyva, Duke of Terranova, beat a French army under Francis de Bourbon, Comte de St. Pol

• 1547 Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
• 1572 Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda

• 1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established at Jamestown
• 1661 Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty
• 1667 Raid of the Medway: Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies the town of Sheerness in England

• 1734 In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave 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
• 1749 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Netherlands
• 1749 Town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded by the British - sparks Father Le Loutre's War
• 1768 1st medical diploma in America is granted to Dr John Archer from the College of Philadelphia
• 1788 The population of Vizille, France, demands local parliament

• 1792 British George Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, British Columbia
• 1805 Great Stone Face, or the Profile found in New Hampshire
• 1813 Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria results in a victory for a Spanish, Portuguese and British alliance against the French
• 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
• 1822 Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas arrested in South Carolina
• 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

• 1849 Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
• 1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes in Worcester, Massachusetts [1]
• 1854 First Victoria Cross won during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands during the Crimean War

• 1863 Battle at Upperville, Virginia, Union forces hold off Confederate advance, 389 causalities
• 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 Infielder William White plays one game for the Providence Grays with conjecture was the first African-American to play MLB even though he appeared Caucasian

• 1893 1st Ferris wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois
• 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
• 1895 British Earl of Rosebery's Liberal Party government falls
• 1898 US captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish–American War
• 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
• 1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)

• 1905 Polish workers in Łódź, Congress Poland stage strikes and insurrection against Russian occupation; quashed by tsars' troops after a few days
• 1907 E. W. Scripps founds United Press Associations in the US
• 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 Red Sox pitcher Rube Foster no-hits New York Yankees, 2-0 at Fenway Park
• 1916 Mexican troops defeat US expeditionary force under General Pershing
• 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
• 1919 Social Democrat Gustav Bauer forms a German government

• 1921 The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations

• 1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms

• 1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans

• 1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit

• 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
• 1942 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
• 1942 Anneliese 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
• 1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas, Texas

• 1946 Federal judge in Seattle rules that club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
• 1948 1st stored computer program runs on Manchester Mark I at a laboratory in Manchester University, England

• 1948 HMT Empire Windrush with the first 800 emigrants from the West Indies to the UK arrives at Port of Tilbury near London

• 1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
• 1948 WNAC (now WHDH) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting

• 1952 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Skokie CC: Betsy Rawls defeats Betty Jameson, 1 up in the final
• 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 Australian middle distance runner John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0) and 1500m (3:41.8+) in Turku, Finland

• 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

• 1958 French franc devalues
• 1960 German sprinter Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
• 1962 USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 75,190 m

• 1964 Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, disappear after being released from a Mississippi jail, later found murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan

• 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

• 1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)

• 1969 John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
• 1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
• 1970 Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892

• 1971 International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia
• 1971 MLB Cleveland Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf

• 1975 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Lord's, London: West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win inaugural final; Player of the match: Clive Lloyd (WI) 102 (85)
• 1976 Italian General Election; Enrico Berlinguer's Communist party win their greatest-ever share of the vote (34.4%)

• 1978 The British Army shoots 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
• 1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
• 1981 Bread riots in Casablanca, Morocco, kill 66 people (government figure vs opposition estimate of 637)

• 1981 Socialists and communists win French parliamentary election

• 1983 Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss

• 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 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)

• 1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)

• 1988 American rock band The Rascals begin their 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

• 1990 7.7 Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran; killing about 50,000
• 1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!"

• 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham, who survives
• 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
• 1991 Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Austrian province of Karinthia

• 1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat after 356 years, the world's most difficult maths problem
• 1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

• 1997 Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks
• 1998 "Don't Be Cruel" second studio album by Bobby Brown is released (Grammy Award Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, 1990)
• 2000 Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote

• 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

• 2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
• 2002 Disney animated movie "Lilo & Stitch" released, written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

• 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight

• 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra
• 2009 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Lord's, London: Pakistan wins their first title beating Sri Lanka by 8 wickets; Player of the Series: Sri Lankan all-rounder Tillakaratne Dilshan (317 runs)
• 2009 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Lord's: England 86/4 win inaugural event; beat New Zealand 85; England's Katherine Brunt takes 3 for 6
• 2012 A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
• 2012 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
• 2013 15 people are killed and 20 are injured after a suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan
• 2014 Qhapaq Ñan, the Andean Road System of the Inca Empire, 30,000km long (18,600 miles) through six countries, granted World Heritage status by UNESCO [1]
• 2015 94 people die & 45 are hospitalized after drinking moonshine in Mumbai, India
• 2015 Hackers ground 1400 passengers by attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in Poland
• 2017 In landmark case Israeli woman wins sexism case against airline El Al after asked to change seat away from a man

• 2017 Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu outed after losing no-confidence vote 241-7
• 2018 EU imposes tariffs on US goods worth $3.2 billion in response to US tariffs
• 2018 NBA Draft: Arizona center Deandre Ayton first pick by Phoenix Suns
• 2018 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden becomes the second world leader to give birth in office, to a daughter

• 2019 NHL Draft: US NTDP center Jack Hughes first pick by New Jersey Devils

• 2020 New archaeological discovery announced near Stonehenge of a large circle of shafts surrounding a village 2500 BC, largest prehistoric structure in Britain
• 2020 Saudi Arabia bans international visitors from making the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage in 2020 due to COVID-19
• 2020 WHO records a new record number of new daily cases of COVID-19 - 183,020, with 116,000 coming from North and South America
• 2021 Carl Nassib becomes the first openly gay player in the NFL in a post on Instagram
• 2021 Colombia's COVID-19 recorded death toll passes 100,000, the tenth country in the world to do so

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