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Events on the 21st of June in history

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21 Jun 0217 The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
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21 Jun 0524 Battle at Vezerone: Burgundy beats France
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21 Jun 0533 A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.
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21 Jun 0996 Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German Emperor of Elzas
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21 Jun 1128 Battle of Akspoele: Earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik
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21 Jun 1307 Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
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21 Jun 1498 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
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21 Jun 1529 Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France
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21 Jun 1529 French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
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21 Jun 1547 Great fire in Moscow
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21 Jun 1572 Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
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21 Jun 1582 Sengoku jidai: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyo, was forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
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21 Jun 1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
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21 Jun 1621 Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
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21 Jun 1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
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21 Jun 1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, &
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21 Jun 1661 Treaty of Kardis: Russia and Sweden sign peace treaty
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21 Jun 1667 Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
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21 Jun 1672 Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
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21 Jun 1672 French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
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21 Jun 1684 King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
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21 Jun 1684 MA Bay Colony's charter revoked
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21 Jun 1734 In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
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21 Jun 1749 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth
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21 Jun 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
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21 Jun 1768 James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
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21 Jun 1768 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)
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21 Jun 1788 Vizille France population demands local parliament
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21 Jun 1788 New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
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21 Jun 1788 US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify
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21 Jun 1791 Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne
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21 Jun 1791 King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
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21 Jun 1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
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21 Jun 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
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21 Jun 1805 Great Stoneface Mt found in New Hampshire
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21 Jun 1805 Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
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21 Jun 1813 Peninsular War: Battle of Victoria.
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21 Jun 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
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21 Jun 1824 Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
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21 Jun 1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
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21 Jun 1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
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21 Jun 1848 In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
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21 Jun 1854 The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
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21 Jun 1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
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21 Jun 1863 Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities
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21 Jun 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
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21 Jun 1864 New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
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21 Jun 1869 The opera "Die Meistersinger" is produced (Munich)
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21 Jun 1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
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21 Jun 1879 F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
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21 Jun 1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
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21 Jun 1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
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21 Jun 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
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21 Jun 1895 British Roseberry government falls
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21 Jun 1898 Guam becomes a territory of US
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21 Jun 1898 The United States captures Guam from Spain.
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21 Jun 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
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21 Jun 1900 Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
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21 Jun 1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In
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21 Jun 1903 Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
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21 Jun 1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee, " 1st known reference to New York club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)
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21 Jun 1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st
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21 Jun 1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus
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21 Jun 1907 E W Scripps founded United Press
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21 Jun 1913 Tiny Broadwick becomes 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
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21 Jun 1915 Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of General De Law
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21 Jun 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.
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21 Jun 1916 Boston Rube Forster no-hits New York Yankees, 2-0
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21 Jun 1916 Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under General Pershing
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21 Jun 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
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21 Jun 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded
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21 Jun 1919 Bauer forms German government
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21 Jun 1919 German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet
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21 Jun 1919 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
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21 Jun 1919 Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
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21 Jun 1919 Germans scuttle their own fleet
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21 Jun 1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using the mail to defraud
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21 Jun 1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
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21 Jun 1929 An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
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21 Jun 1930 One-year conscription comes into force in France.
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21 Jun 1930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
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21 Jun 1932 Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (NYC)
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21 Jun 1932 Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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21 Jun 1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
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21 Jun 1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
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21 Jun 1939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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21 Jun 1940 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General / Council of State
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21 Jun 1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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21 Jun 1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
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21 Jun 1941 After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
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21 Jun 1942 President Roosevelt / Premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
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21 Jun 1942 Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
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21 Jun 1942 World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
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21 Jun 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 Japan against the United States mainland.
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21 Jun 1942 129
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21 Jun 1942 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa
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21 Jun 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
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21 Jun 1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
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21 Jun 1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WWII
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21 Jun 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
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21 Jun 1945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II
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21 Jun 1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel in Dallas, Texas
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21 Jun 1946 Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
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21 Jun 1948 33 1 / 3 RPM LP record introduced (DR Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
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21 Jun 1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India
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21 Jun 1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
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21 Jun 1948 WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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21 Jun 1948 Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
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21 Jun 1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
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21 Jun 1948 Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record"
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21 Jun 1949 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #1886 Lowell
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21 Jun 1950 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit
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21 Jun 1951 "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
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21 Jun 1952 The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
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21 Jun 1954 John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)
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21 Jun 1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
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21 Jun 1956 German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
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21 Jun 1956 Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters
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21 Jun 1957 Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
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21 Jun 1958 French franc devalues
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21 Jun 1960 Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
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21 Jun 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
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21 Jun 1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
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21 Jun 1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
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21 Jun 1964 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
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21 Jun 1964 Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
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21 Jun 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
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21 Jun 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
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21 Jun 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.
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21 Jun 1964 Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in
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21 Jun 1965 65th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive Country Club - St. Louis
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21 Jun 1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
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21 Jun 1967 Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th and lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th and Yanks beat them 6-3
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21 Jun 1967 Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead
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21 Jun 1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
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21 Jun 1969 John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
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21 Jun 1969 Zager and Evans release "In the Year 2525"
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21 Jun 1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)
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21 Jun 1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
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21 Jun 1970 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine National, Minnesota
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21 Jun 1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
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21 Jun 1970 Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
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21 Jun 1970 Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy, soccer championship
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21 Jun 1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life rock concert in McCrea, Louisiana
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21 Jun 1971 71st US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion Golf Club - Ardmore, Pennsylvania
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21 Jun 1971 Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf
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21 Jun 1971 International Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia
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21 Jun 1973 In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
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21 Jun 1975 "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens
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21 Jun 1975 Elton John, Eagles and Beach Boys play Wembley
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21 Jun 1975 Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow
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21 Jun 1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
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21 Jun 1976 Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
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21 Jun 1977 Bülent Ecevit, of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
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21 Jun 1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
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21 Jun 1977 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM
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21 Jun 1979 Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
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21 Jun 1981 81st US Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion Golf Club - Ardmore, Pennsylvania
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21 Jun 1981 Don Fagan and Walter Becker quit Steely Dan
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21 Jun 1981 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf
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21 Jun 1981 Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
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21 Jun 1981 Socialists / communists win French parliamentary election
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21 Jun 1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
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21 Jun 1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity
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21 Jun 1982 Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"
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21 Jun 1982 Washington DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity
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21 Jun 1982 John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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21 Jun 1982 Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"
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21 Jun 1983 Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
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21 Jun 1985 American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
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21 Jun 1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm
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21 Jun 1986 "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
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21 Jun 1986 "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
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21 Jun 1986 Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with Kansas City Royals
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21 Jun 1986 President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
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21 Jun 1986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
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21 Jun 1987 87th US Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in San Francisco
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21 Jun 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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21 Jun 1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB
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21 Jun 1987 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendent
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21 Jun 1988 42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
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21 Jun 1988 Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon
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21 Jun 1988 Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
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21 Jun 1988 Los Angeles beats Detroit, for the NBA championship
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21 Jun 1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
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21 Jun 1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson remarry
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21 Jun 1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
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21 Jun 1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!"
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21 Jun 1990 Parliament of West and East Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
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21 Jun 1990 7.7 Earthquake with 100s of after shocks hits Iran; about 50,000 die
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21 Jun 1990 25,000 die in Iranian Earthquake
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21 Jun 1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
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21 Jun 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
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21 Jun 1990 US House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
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21 Jun 1991 Eleanor Mondale marries Greg "Thunder" Malban (Minn DJ)
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21 Jun 1991 New York Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame
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21 Jun 1991 Islanders Denis Potvan & Michael Bossy inducted into NHL Hall of Fame
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21 Jun 1992 92nd US Golf Open: Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL, California
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21 Jun 1992 Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein
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21 Jun 1992 Actress Marina Sirtis (Star Trek NG) marries rocker Michael Lamper
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21 Jun 1992 Danielle Ammaccapan wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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21 Jun 1993 "Camelot" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 56 performances
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21 Jun 1993 English Mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
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21 Jun 1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
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21 Jun 1994 Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal)
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21 Jun 1997 "Defending the Caveman, " closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 performances
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21 Jun 1997 35th NHL draft Boston picks center Joe Thornton 1st
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21 Jun 1998 98th US Golf Open: at Olympic Club San Francisco
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21 Jun 2000 Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
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21 Jun 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.
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21 Jun 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
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21 Jun 2005 Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been acquitted for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
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21 Jun 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
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21 Jun 2009 Greenland assumes self-rule.
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