Historical Events In June - 21

1876  Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79 on June - 21.   

1877  The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons on June - 21.   

1879  On June - 21 f W Woolworth opens first store (failed almost immediately)   

1879  On this day in history f W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)   

1879  Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide) on June - 21.   

1882  On June - 21 rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)   

1883  Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement) on June - 21.   

1884  On June - 21 claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa   

1884  On this day in history alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies   

1887  On this day in history britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria   

1887  On June - 21 adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67   

1891  Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music) on June - 21.   

1892  On this day in history reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man)   

1893  On June - 21 the first Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)   

1893  On this day in history 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)   

1893  Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University on June - 21.   

1894  Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company on this day in history.   

1895  British Roseberry govt falls on this day in history.   

1898  Guam becomes a territory of US on June - 21.   

1899  On this day in history pavel Haas, composer   

1900  Arthur MacArthur, U.S. military governor in the Philippines, grants an amnesty to Filipino rebels on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

1900  On June - 21 gunnar Ek, composer   

1900  Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69 on June - 21.   

1902  On this day in history wilhelm Maler, composer   

1903  On this day in history sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)   

1903  On June - 21 al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times)   

1904  Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) on June - 21.   

1905  The birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright on June - 21.   

1905  Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France) on this day in history.   

1906  M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus on June - 21.   

1906  On June - 21 luis Maria Millet, composer   

1907  13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA on June - 21.   

1908  On June - 21 nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64   

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1002  On June - 21 birth of leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)   

1002  On June - 21 birth of pope Leo IX (d. 1054)   

1226  On June - 21 birth of king Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)   

1528  Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603) was born on June - 21.   

1577  Giovanni Del Turco, composer was born on June - 21.   

1596  Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov was born on June - 21.   

1639  On this day in history birth of increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)   

1640  Abraham Mignon, still life painter was born on this day in history.   

0524  On this day in history chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28   

1205  On June - 21 death of enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)   

1208  Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies on this day in history.   

1305  On June - 21 death of king Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)   

1377  Edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies on June - 21.   

1421  Death of Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366) on June - 21.   

1527  Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1529  John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69 on June - 21.