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 June - 21 the Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa   

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

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

1887  Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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

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

1893  The first Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition) on this day in history.   

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  Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company on this day in history.   

1895  British Roseberry govt falls on June - 21.   

1898  On June - 21 guam becomes a territory of US   

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  Gunnar Ek, composer on this day in history.   

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

1902  On this day in history wilhelm Maler, composer   

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

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 this day in history.   

1905  On this day in history the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright   

1905  On June - 21 jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)   

1906  M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus on this day in history.   

1906  On June - 21 luis Maria Millet, composer   

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 this day in history.   

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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 June - 21.   

1226  King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279) was born on this day in history.   

1528  On this day in history birth of maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603)   

1577  Giovanni Del Turco, composer was born on June - 21.   

1596  On this day in history 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  On June - 21 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  Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies on this day in history.   

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