Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Mon Jun 21 2021 12:30 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
06/21/1002 Leo IX, [Bruno graaf von Egesheim und Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)
06/21/1577 Giovanni Del Turco, composer
06/21/1596 Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov
06/21/1640 Abraham Mignon, still life painter
06/21/1668 Cajetan Kolberer, composer
06/21/1688 Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock)
06/21/1730 Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese leader
06/21/1732 Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
06/21/1732 Martha Washington, 1st, 1st lady (1789-97)
06/21/1740 Hendrik van W�n, archivist (Algemeen R�ksarchief)
06/21/1763 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher
06/21/1774 Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)
06/21/1781 Sim�on-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling)
06/21/1790 Wilhelm Speyer, composer
06/21/1805 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
06/21/1817 James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 18
06/21/1818 Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
06/21/1818 Joseph Abel Haskin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
06/21/1819 Jacques L Offenbach, [Jakob Eberst], German composer (Orph�e enfers)
06/21/1823 Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 188
06/21/1839 Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winne
06/21/1839 Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician
06/21/1839 John Decatur Barry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
06/21/1844 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo)
06/21/1851 Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st boy scout troop
06/21/1859 Henry O Tanner, artist
06/21/1862 Henry Holden Huss, composer
06/21/1865 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
06/21/1873 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)
06/21/1876 Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)
06/21/1882 Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)
06/21/1883 Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement)
06/21/1890 Egon Schiele, Austrian painter
06/21/1891 Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)
06/21/1892 Hilding Rosenberg, Bosj�kloster Sweden, composer (Babels Torn)
06/21/1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man)
06/21/1893 Alois H�ba, Czech (opera)composer (That Mother)
06/21/1899 Pavel Haas, composer
06/21/1900 Dorothy Stickney, US actress (And So They Were Married)
06/21/1900 Gunnar Ek, composer
06/21/1902 Wilhelm Maler, composer
06/21/1903 Al Hirschfeld, cartoonist (NINA, 1975 Tony Award)
06/21/1903 Alf Sj�berg, Swedish film maker
06/21/1903 Dorothy Stickney, actress (And So They Were Married)
06/21/1903 Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy)
06/21/1905 Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)
06/21/1905 Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; decline
06/21/1906 Luis Maria Millet, composer
06/21/1909 Kurt Schwaen, composer
06/21/1910 Bela Tardos, composer
06/21/1910 Charles Jones, composer
06/21/1912 Mary McCarthy, US, novelist (Group)
06/21/1914 Jan Decadt, composer
06/21/1920 Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)
06/21/1921 Frank Scott, Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
06/21/1921 Jane Russell, Bemidji, MN, actress full-figured gal (Outlaw)
06/21/1921 Jean Kent, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
06/21/1921 Joan Tetzel, actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning)
06/21/1922 Judy Holliday, NYC, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib)
06/21/1923 John Compton, Lynchburg Tn, actor (Shannon-D.A.'s Man)
06/21/1924 Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinettist
06/21/1925 Maureen Stapleton, Troy NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite)
06/21/1927 Carl Stokes, (Cleve-Mayor)
06/21/1927 Jackie Collum, baseball player
06/21/1928 Judith Raskin, NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro)
06/21/1929 John Morgan, British ambassador to Mexico
06/21/1930 Gerald Kaufman, British MP (shadow Foreign Secretary)
06/21/1930 Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila)
06/21/1930 Patricia Lindop, radio biologist
06/21/1930 Peter Marshall, police commissioner (London)
06/21/1931 Lawrence K Grossman, News president (NBC-TV)
06/21/1931 Margaret Heckler, US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85)
06/21/1932 Bernard Ingham, press secretary (Margaret Thatcher)
06/21/1932 Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer
06/21/1932 Ocie Lee 'OC' Smith, US jazz singer (Little Green Apples)
06/21/1933 Bernie Kopell, NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl)
06/21/1935 Fran�oise Sagan, [Quoirez], France, novelist (Bon Jour Trieste)
06/21/1935 Monte Markham, Manatee Fla, actor (Second Hundred Years, Dallas)
06/21/1937 Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U)
06/21/1937 John Edrich, cricketer
06/21/1938 Dan Burton, (Rep-R-IN, 1983- )
06/21/1938 Ron Ely, Hereford Tx, actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
06/21/1939 Charles Boone, composer
06/21/1940 Joe Flaherty, Pitts Pa, comedian (SCTV, Blue Monday)
06/21/1940 Mariette Hartley, NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned)
06/21/1942 Marg Margolies-Mezvinsky, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
06/21/1942 William Bradford Reynolds, Conn, US asst attorney general
06/21/1944 Corinna Tsopel, Athens Greece, actress (Man Called Horse)
06/21/1944 Frans Luitjes, Dutch athlete
06/21/1944 Ray Davies, singer/guitarist (Kinks-Come Dancing)
06/21/1946 Brenda Holloway, US singer/songwriter (When I'm Gone)
06/21/1946 Kate Hoey, British MP (Lab)
06/21/1946 Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP (Sect of State for Defense)
06/21/1946 Maurice Saatchi, CEO (Saatchi & Saatchi)
06/21/1947 Dana Rohrabacher, (Rep-R-California)
06/21/1947 Lex van Delden, actor (Soldat of Orange)
06/21/1947 Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ca, actr (Family Ties, Bridget loves Bernie)
06/21/1947 Michael Gross, Chicago Ill, actor (Family Ties, FBI murders)
06/21/1948 Joey Malland, rocker (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
06/21/1948 Leo Sayers, rocker (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing)
06/21/1949 Jim Bacchus, (Rep-D-Florida)
06/21/1950 Joey Kramer, NYC, hard rock drummer (Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic)
06/21/1951 Nils Lofgren, guitarist/singer/songwriter (East Street Band)
06/21/1953 Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan)
06/21/1953 Charlie Moore Jr, baseball player
06/21/1953 Robyn Douglass, Sendai Japan, actress (Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy)
06/21/1954 Anne Kirkbride, actress
06/21/1954 Robert Pastorelli, Bkln NY, actor (Eldin-Murphy Brown)
06/21/1955 David Marshall Grant, actor (Bat 21, Legs, French Postcards)
06/21/1956 Mikhail Burtsev, USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976)
06/21/1956 Rick Sutcliffe, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Chicago Cubs)
06/21/1957 Mark Brzezicki, rocker (Big Country-Wonderland)
06/21/1958 Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russia, major/cosmonaut
06/21/1959 Tom Chambers, NBA forward, center (Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns
06/21/1962 Marc Copage, LA Calif, actor (Corey Baker-Julia)
06/21/1963 Jeff Musselman, baseball player
06/21/1964 Kari Kennell, Colorado Springs Co, playmate (Feb, 1988)
06/21/1964 Kari Whitman, actress (Eric's Revenge)
06/21/1964 Sammi Davis-Voss, Kidderminster England, actress (Hope & Glory)
06/21/1965 Michael Dolan, actor (Hamburger Hill, Liberace)
06/21/1966 Nan Woods, actress (1 More Saturday Night)
06/21/1967 Nicole Kidman, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Dead Calm, Far & Away)
06/21/1967 Tim Simenson, rocker (Bomb the Bass)
06/21/1969 Donovan Osborne, baseball player
06/21/1971 Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince/son of King of Nepal
06/21/1973 Juliette Lewis, actress (Holly-Family For Joe, I Married Dora)
06/21/1982 William of Wales, Prince Chuck & Lady Di's baby
Deaths:
06/21/ 524 Chlodomir, king of the France to Orl�ans (511-24), dies at about 28
06/21/1208 Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies
06/21/1377 Edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies
06/21/1529 John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69
06/21/1573 Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle
06/21/1591 Aloysius [Luigi] van Gonzaga, Prince/Italian Jesuit saint, dies
06/21/1874 Anders J �ngstr�m, Swedish astronomer/physicist (�-unit, dies at 59
06/21/1876 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 8
06/21/1884 Alexander, prince/last male descendant of Johan W Friso, dies
06/21/1887 Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67
06/21/1900 Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69
06/21/1908 Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at
06/21/1913 Stefan O Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), dies
06/21/1914 Glauco Velasquez, composer, dies at 30
06/21/1917 Ant�nio JdC Fe��, Port diplomat/poet (Cancioneiro Chin�s), dies at 5
06/21/1925 John H Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies
06/21/1934 [James] Thorne Smith, US, sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout)
06/21/1940 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies
06/21/1940 Hendrik Marsman, poet/writer/critic, dies
06/21/1944 Jan Bonekamp, resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies
06/21/1945 Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Verzinkende Shades), dies at 53
06/21/1946 Heinrich Kaminski, composer, dies at 59
06/21/1957 Don McBride, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka), dies at 68
06/21/1957 Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer, dies at 85
06/21/1964 Andrew Goodman, US civil rights activist, murdered at 20
06/21/1964 James Chaney, US civil rights activist, murdered at 21
06/21/1964 Michael Schwerner, US civil rights activist, murder at 21
06/21/1965 Bernard M Baruch, pres advisor (termed 'Cold War'), dies at 94
06/21/1969 Maureen 'Little Mo' Connolly, 1st woman grand slam (1953), dies at 3
06/21/1970 Achmed Sukarno, PM of Indonesia (1945-67), dies at 68
06/21/1972 Seth Bingham, composer, dies at 90
06/21/1973 Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
06/21/1975 Heinz Lau, composer, dies at 49
06/21/1979 Julian Orchard, actor, dies
06/21/1981 Gunnar Ek, composer, dies on 81st birthday
06/21/1983 Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (T�l), dies at 87
06/21/1988 Robert Lee 'Bobby' Dodd, US football coach
06/21/1989 Lee Quencey Calhoun, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1956, 60), dies at 56
06/21/1989 Simon of Collem, journalist/TV host, dies
06/21/1992 Thomas Whitfield, gospel vocalist, dies at 38 of a heart attack
06/21/1993 Frank Moro, entertainer, dies
06/21/1993 Jerry Strivelli, actor, dies
Significant Events:
06/21/ 524 Battle at Vezerone: Bourgundy beats France
06/21/ 996 Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elza
06/21/1128 Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandia beats Diederik
06/21/1498 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
06/21/1572 Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
06/21/1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
06/21/1667 Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
06/21/1672 Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
06/21/1684 MA Bay Colony's charter revoked
06/21/1749 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth
06/21/1768 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)
06/21/1788 US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify
06/21/1791 French King Louis XVI & family flees
06/21/1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
06/21/1805 Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
06/21/1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
06/21/1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
06/21/1849 Battle at Wagh�usel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
06/21/1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
06/21/1869 Opera 'Die Meistersinger' is produced (Munich)
06/21/1879 F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
06/21/1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
06/21/1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
06/21/1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
06/21/1898 Guam becomes a territory of US
06/21/1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In
06/21/1900 bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
06/21/1903 Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Mazarine Stone' takes place (BG)
06/21/1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus
06/21/1907 Alex Ross wins US Open golf tournament
06/21/1913 Tiny Broadwick becomes 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
06/21/1915 Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
06/21/1916 Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0
06/21/1916 Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing
06/21/1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
06/21/1919 Bauer forms German govt
06/21/1919 German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own fleet
06/21/1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
06/21/1924 Assembly NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Vereeniging, forms
06/21/1930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
06/21/1932 Heavyweight Jack Sharkey KOs Max Schmeling (NYC)
06/21/1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
06/21/1937 French People's front govt-Blum falls
06/21/1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
06/21/1939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
06/21/1940 German occupiers disband States-General/Council of State
06/21/1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
06/21/1941 After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
06/21/1942 129�F (54�C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
06/21/1942 President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
06/21/1942 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa
06/21/1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
06/21/1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
06/21/1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II
06/21/1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
06/21/1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
06/21/1948 Lord Mountbatten becomes gov-gen of India
06/21/1948 WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
06/21/1949 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #1886 Lowell
06/21/1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
06/21/1956 German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
06/21/1956 Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters
06/21/1958 French franc devalues
06/21/1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
06/21/1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
06/21/1965 Gary Player wins US Open golf tournament
06/21/1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel
06/21/1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
06/21/1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)
06/21/1969 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
06/21/1969 John Pennel pole vauts world record (5.45 m)
06/21/1969 Zager & Evans release 'In the Year 2525'
06/21/1970 Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City)
06/21/1970 Tiger shortstop Cesar Gutierrez goes 7 for 7 in 12 inn game
06/21/1970 Tony Jacklin wins US Open golf tournament
06/21/1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana
06/21/1971 Int Court of Justice askes South-Africa to pull out of Namibia
06/21/1971 Lee Trevino wins US Open golf tournament
06/21/1972 Hurricane Agnes hits US east coast; 118 die
06/21/1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
06/21/1976 Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
06/21/1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
06/21/1977 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM
06/21/1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
06/21/1981 David Graham wins US Open golf tournament
06/21/1981 Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
06/21/1981 Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
06/21/1982 Paul McCartney releases 'Take it Away'
06/21/1982 Wash DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity
06/21/1983 Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
06/21/1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm
06/21/1985 Josef Mengeles corpse identified
06/21/1986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
06/21/1986 Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
06/21/1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB
06/21/1987 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendent
06/21/1987 Scott Simpson wins US Open golf tournament
06/21/1988 Los Angeles beats Detroit, for NBA championship
06/21/1988 Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon
06/21/1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
06/21/1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson remarry
06/21/1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
06/21/1990 7.7 Earthquake with 100s of aftershocks hits Iran; about 50,000 die
06/21/1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
06/21/1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
06/21/1990 Parliament of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
06/21/1990 US House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
06/21/1991 Eleanor Mondale marries Greg 'Thunder' Malban (Minn DJ)
06/21/1991 Islanders Denis Potvan & Michael Bossy inducted into NHL Hall of Fam
06/21/1991 J�rg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia
06/21/1992 Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein
06/21/1992 Actress Marina Sirtis (Star Trek NG) marries rocker Michael Lamper
06/21/1992 Tom Kite wins US Open golf tournament
06/21/1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
06/21/1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
06/21/2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Atl Ocean (4m56s)
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