Page 3: Historical Events In June - 21

1876  On this day in history antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79   

1877  The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons on this day in history.   

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 June - 21.   

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

1884  Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa on this day in history.   

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

1887  On this day in history britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria   

1887  On June - 21 adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67   

1891  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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 this day in history pavel Haas, composer   

1900  On June - 21 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 June - 21 gunnar Ek, composer   

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

1902  On this day in history wilhelm Maler, composer   

1903  Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG) on June - 21.   

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  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  On this day in history m Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus   

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  Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64 on June - 21.   

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1002  On this day in history 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 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 June - 21.   

1577  Giovanni Del Turco, composer was born on this day in history.   

1596  Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov was born on June - 21.   

1639  On June - 21 birth of increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)   

1640  Abraham Mignon, still life painter was born on June - 21.   

0524  On June - 21 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  Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies on June - 21.   

1305  On this day in history death of king Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)   

1377  On this day in history edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies   

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

1527  On this day in history niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57   

1529  John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69 on June - 21.