Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Today In History: June 21

Events


1547- Great fire in Moscow


1607- First Protestant Episcopal parish in America estabilished in Jamestown


1633- Galileo Galilei is forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views


1791- Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne (picture above)


1879- F. W. Woolworth opens his first store, which failed almost immediately


1893- First Ferris Wheel premieres at Chicago's Columbian Exposition


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


1942- Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC to meet President Roosevelt


1945- US forces defeat the Japanese at Okinawa during WWII


1956- Anti-protons detected in atmosphere


1956- German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners


1975- "Jaws", directed by Steven Spielberg opens


1982- John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity


1985- American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele


1990- 7.7 Earthquake with 100s of after shocks hits Iran; about 50,000 die


1990- NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham


2001- Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Atl Ocean (4m56s)


2006- Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra




Birthdays


1732- Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer


1732- Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady


1851- Daniel Carter Beard, organized first Boy Scout troop


1921- Fran Scott, pianist on Lawrence Welk Show


1922- Judy Holliday, actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib)


1933- Bernie Kopell, actor (The Love Boat, Get Smart)


1948- Ian McEwan, writer (Atonement, Solar)


1953- Benazir Bhutto, first female leader of a Muslim nation (Pakistan)


1973- Juliette Lewis, actress (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Whip It!)


1982- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge




Deaths


1527- Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author,


1876- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo)


1893- Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University


2007- Bob Evans, American restaurateur






Have a lovely day! Hope you learned something.


Hugs & Best Wishes,


Lizzy



(Info from History Orb, photo from here)

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