Page 3: 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  On June - 21 f W Woolworth opens first store (failed almost immediately)   

1879  On June - 21 f W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)   

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

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

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

1884  Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa on June - 21.   

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

1887  Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria on June - 21.   

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

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

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 June - 21 british Roseberry govt falls   

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

1899  On June - 21 pavel Haas, composer   

1900  On June - 21 arthur MacArthur, U.S. military governor in the Philippines, grants an amnesty to Filipino rebels   

1900  On this day in history 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  Gunnar Ek, composer on this day in history.   

1900  On this day in history 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  On June - 21 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  On June - 21 the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright   

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 June - 21 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 this day in history.   

1002  Pope Leo IX (d. 1054) was born on June - 21.   

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  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  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  On June - 21 chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28   

1205  On this day in history death of enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)   

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  On June - 21 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  On this day in history john Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69