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- 0524 Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vzeronce.
- 1582 Incident at Honn-ji in Kyoto, Japan.
- 1607 First Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
- 1621 Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
- 1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
- 1665 First soldiers of Le Rgiment de Carignan-Salires arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories.
- 1684 MA Bay Colony's charter revoked
- 1734 In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Anglique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, was tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
- 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, founded.
- 1768 The first US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)
- 1788 New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
- 1788 US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify
- 1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
- 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill
- 1805 Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
- 1813 Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812.
- 1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
- 1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
- 1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
- 1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
- 1864 New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
- 1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania Prisons.
- 1879 F W Woolworth opens first store (failed almost immediately)
- 1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
- 1893 The first Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
- 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
- 1898 Guam becomes a U.S. territory.
- 1900 Arthur MacArthur, U.S. military governor in the Philippines, grants an amnesty to Filipino rebels
- 1913 Tiny Broadwick becomes first woman to parachute from an airplane
- 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded
- 1919 Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War.
- 1919 Germans scuttle their own fleet rather than surrender it to the Allies
- 1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using the mail to defraud
- 1933 The first Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
- 1939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- 1940 First successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1940 HMAS Sydney and Stuart bombard Bardia
- 1940 World War II: France surrenders to Germany.
- 1941 Allied troops, including Australians, occupy Damascus
- 1942 129ø F (54ø C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
- 1942 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa
- 1942 World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the U.S. mainland.
- 1942 World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
- 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
- 1944 Mantello sends out Auschwitz Protocols through the British Exchange Telegraph and, two weeks later, 500 Swiss newspapers publish the story of 1,715,000 Jews being murdered.
- 1945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II
- 1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
- 1948 Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record" Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's
- 1948 First stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
- 1948 The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
- 1949 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #1886 Lowell
- 1952 Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, was converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- 1952 Wilfred 'Wop' May pilot, World War I air ace, died on this day.. May was being pursued by German ace Manfred von Richthofen when the Red Baron was shot down.
- 1955 Visitor posting - Scott Somers, Born in Weston,Family to: French, and Muir. - Canada
- 1957 Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister
- 1963 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
- 1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
- 1964 Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1968 Visitor posting - Tracey Jane Scott born
- 1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
- 1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
- 1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisana
- 1973 In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.
- 1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
- 1976 Visitor posting - Princess Marlene was born - Canada
- 1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
- 1977 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM
- 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Don McLean - Crying
- 1980 Visitor posting - Brian and Patti were married. - USA
- 1980 Visitor posting - Tamara Cook born - USA
- 1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
- 1982 John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 1982 UK hist Birth of Prince William of Wales
- 1982 Wash DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity
- 1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
- 1986 Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
- 1986 Visitor posting - Gabriel l Wilson was born in Denver CO. - USA
- 1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB
- 1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson remarry
- 1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
- 1990 25,000 die in Iranian Earthquake
- 1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
- 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
- 1990 US House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
- 1992 Visitor posting - June 21 1992 Tom Kite wins the PGA US Open; John Cummings is born seconds later and almost named after him
- 1993 Visitor posting - Patrict was born. =] - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Johnathan was born - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - james was born - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Marissa was born :) - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Shakira was born - United Kingdom
- 1998 Visitor posting - I (lauren hiddleston) was born!!Hooray!! - United Kingdom
- 1999 Visitor posting - june 21st 1999 monique okakpu was born a blessing to all
- 1999 Visitor posting - harmony davidson was born. - USA [email protected]
- 2000 Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
- 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially christened Nix & Hydra.
- 2006 Visitor posting - June 21, 2006 Terri Miller and Cindy Simms were married in Vancouver, British Columbia
- 2008 Visitor posting - Emily Anne Y. was born at 8:46 a.m.
- 2008 Visitor posting - I (Karamba Bayo) was issued my OHIO Driver's license
- 2008 Visitor posting - Jess & Jordan begin dating, Leaving this here for a look in a few years. :) - United States
- 2009 Visitor posting - June 21, 2009 @ 11:58am Kaiewe Christopher Thompson-Maio was born. He weighed in at 7 lbs. 1.5 oz. and measured 19 in. tall.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Rebekah Scott and Bess Rickard got married in Iowa - USA
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