Historical Events In June - 21

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

1877  On June - 21 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 this day in history.  

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

1879  On June - 21 umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)  

1882  Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales) on this day in history.  

1883  On June - 21 fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement)  

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  Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria on this day in history.  

1887  On this day in history adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67  

1891  Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music) on this day in history.  

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

1893  The first Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition) on June - 21.  

1893  1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition) on June - 21.  

1893  On this day in history leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University  

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

1895  On this day in history british Roseberry govt falls  

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

1899  Pavel Haas, composer on June - 21.  

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 this day in history gunnar Ek, composer  

1900  On this day in history polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69  

1902  On June - 21 wilhelm Maler, composer  

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

1903  Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times) on June - 21.  

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 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 this day in history.  

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

1908  Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64 on June - 21.  

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

1002  On this day in history birth of pope Leo IX (d. 1054)  

1226  King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279) was born on this day in history.  

1528  Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1639  On June - 21 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  On June - 21 philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies  

1305  Death of King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271) on this day in history.  

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 June - 21.  

1527  Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57 on June - 21.  

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