Historical Events In June - 21

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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  On this day in history britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria   

1887  On June - 21 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  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 June - 21 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  On this day in history pavel Haas, composer   

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 this day in history.   

1900  On this day in history gunnar Ek, composer   

1900  On June - 21 polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69   

1902  On this day in history wilhelm Maler, composer   

1903  On this day in history sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)   

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

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 this day in history.   

1905  On June - 21 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 June - 21.   

1906  On June - 21 luis Maria Millet, composer   

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  Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54) was born on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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  On June - 21 birth of increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)   

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 this day in history death of enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)   

1208  On June - 21 philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies   

1305  On June - 21 death of king Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)   

1377  Edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies on this day in history.   

1421  Death of Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366) on June - 21.   

1527  On June - 21 niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57   

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