WillDekkard
06-21-2010, 05:48 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 21st
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* 524 Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vιzeronce.
* 1307 Kόlόg Khan enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
* 1582 The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.
* 1621 Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
* 1734 In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angιlique is put to death, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city.
* 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
* 1768 James Otis, Jr. offends the King and parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
* 1788 New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
* 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
* 1813 Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
* 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.
* 1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
* 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.
* 1895 The Kiel Canal is officially opened.
* 1898 The United States captures Guam from Spain
* 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.
* 1919 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
* 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.
* 1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
* 1942 World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
* 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 United States mainland.
* 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends.
* 1948 Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
* 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.
* 1957 Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1982 John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
* 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.
* 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
* 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
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- June 21st
c/p from Wikipedia
* 524 Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vιzeronce.
* 1307 Kόlόg Khan enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
* 1582 The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.
* 1621 Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
* 1734 In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angιlique is put to death, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city.
* 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
* 1768 James Otis, Jr. offends the King and parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
* 1788 New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
* 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
* 1813 Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
* 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.
* 1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
* 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.
* 1895 The Kiel Canal is officially opened.
* 1898 The United States captures Guam from Spain
* 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.
* 1919 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
* 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.
* 1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
* 1942 World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
* 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 United States mainland.
* 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends.
* 1948 Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
* 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.
* 1957 Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1982 John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
* 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.
* 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
* 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
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