Page 3: Historical Events In June - 21

1876  On June - 21 antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79   

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

1879  F W Woolworth opens first store (failed almost immediately) on June - 21.   

1879  F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately) on this day in history.   

1879  On this day in history umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)   

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

1883  Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement) on this day in history.   

1884  Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa on June - 21.   

1884  Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies on June - 21.   

1887  Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria on June - 21.   

1887  On this day in history 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  The first Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition) on this day in history.   

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

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

1894  Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company on June - 21.   

1895  On this day in history british Roseberry govt falls   

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

1899  On this day in history pavel Haas, composer   

1900  On June - 21 arthur MacArthur, U.S. military governor in the Philippines, grants an amnesty to Filipino rebels   

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 this day in history gunnar Ek, composer   

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

1902  On June - 21 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  On June - 21 the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright   

1905  On June - 21 jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)   

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

1906  Luis Maria Millet, composer on June - 21.   

1907  13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA on this day in history.   

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

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1002  On this day in history birth of leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)   

1002  Pope Leo IX (d. 1054) was born on June - 21.   

1226  King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279) was born on June - 21.   

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

1577  Giovanni Del Turco, composer was born on this day in history.   

1596  Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov was born on this day in history.   

1639  Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.   

1640  On this day in history birth of abraham Mignon, still life painter   

0524  Chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28 on June - 21.   

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

1208  On this day in history philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies   

1305  Death of King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271) on June - 21.   

1377  On this day in history edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies   

1421  Death of Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366) on this day in history.   

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.