Page 3: Historical Events In June - 21

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

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  On this day in history 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  Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa on this day in history.   

1884  Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies on this day in history.   

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

1887  Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67 on June - 21.   

1891  On June - 21 hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)   

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  On June - 21 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)   

1893  Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University on this day in history.   

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

1895  British Roseberry govt falls on this day in history.   

1898  On June - 21 guam becomes a territory of US   

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  On June - 21 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   

1900  On June - 21 gunnar Ek, composer   

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

1902  Wilhelm Maler, composer on this day in history.   

1903  Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG) on this day in history.   

1903  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

1577  On June - 21 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 this day in history.   

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  Death of Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107) on June - 21.   

1208  Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies on June - 21.   

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

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