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 June - 21.   

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

1882  On this day in history rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)   

1883  On this day in history fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement)   

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

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

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

1894  On this day in history workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company   

1895  On June - 21 british Roseberry govt falls   

1898  Guam becomes a territory of US on this day in history.   

1899  Pavel Haas, composer on this day in history.   

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

1902  Wilhelm Maler, composer on this day in history.   

1903  On June - 21 sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)   

1903  Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)   

1906  On June - 21 m Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus   

1906  Luis Maria Millet, composer on June - 21.   

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

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 this day in history birth of king Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)   

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

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

1596  On this day in history birth of michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov   

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 June - 21.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1421  On this day in history death of jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)   

1527  On this day in history niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57   

1529  On this day in history john Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69