Historical Events In June - 21

1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII

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

1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth

1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison

1977 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM

1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000

1982 Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"

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

1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB

1987 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendent

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

1945 New communist government estblished in Poland

1956 East Germany announces the release of 19,000 political prisoners

1973 Nixon and Brezhnev sign arms limitation agreement

1905 The birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright

1920 The birth of Jane Russell, American film actress

2005 Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft (a joint Russian-United States project) failed 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.

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