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

1879  On this day in history umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)   

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

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 June - 21.   

1887  Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria on this day in history.   

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

1891  Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music) on June - 21.   

1892  Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man) on June - 21.   

1893  On this day in history the first Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)   

1893  On this day in history 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  Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company on June - 21.   

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 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 this day in history.   

1900  On this day in history gunnar Ek, composer   

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

1902  Wilhelm Maler, composer on June - 21.   

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 this day in history the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright   

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

1906  M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus on June - 21.   

1906  On this day in history luis Maria Millet, composer   

1907  13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA on June - 21.   

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 June - 21.   

1002  Pope Leo IX (d. 1054) was born on this day in history.   

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 June - 21.   

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 June - 21.   

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

1421  On June - 21 death of jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)   

1527  Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1529  On June - 21 john Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69