Page 3: Historical Events In June - 21

1876  Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1877  On this day in history the Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.   

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 June - 21 umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)   

1882  Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales) on June - 21.   

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

1884  On this day in history claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa   

1884  On June - 21 alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies   

1887  On June - 21 britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria   

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

1891  On this day in history hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)   

1892  Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man) on this day in history.   

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  On June - 21 leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University   

1894  On June - 21 workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company   

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  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 June - 21.   

1900  On June - 21 gunnar Ek, composer   

1900  Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1902  Wilhelm Maler, composer on June - 21.   

1903  Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG) on June - 21.   

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

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

1905  On this day in history the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright   

1905  Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France) on June - 21.   

1906  M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus on this day in history.   

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  Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64 on this day in history.   

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1002  Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54) was born on June - 21.   

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

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

1528  On June - 21 birth of maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603)   

1577  On this day in history birth of giovanni Del Turco, composer   

1596  On June - 21 birth of michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov   

1639  Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723) was born on June - 21.   

1640  On June - 21 birth of abraham Mignon, still life painter   

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

1205  Death of Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107) on this day in history.   

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  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 June - 21.   

1529  John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69 on this day in history.