TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 21
1498 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to “abjure, curse, & detest” his Copernican heliocentric views
1675 Christopher Wren begins work on rebuilding St. Paul’s Cathedral in London after the Great Fire.
1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
1834 C. H. McCormick patents the first practical reaper.
1877 Ten members of the Irish Miners Group The “Molly Maguires” were hanged for murder
1887 Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
1900 General Douglas MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule.
1915 Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest.
1945 Following a long and bloody battle which started on April 1st and lasting nearly 3 months US troops take control of the Japanese island of Okinawa.
1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini becomes Pope Paul VI
1964 Three civil rights workers—James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24—disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. In 2005, 41 years after the disappearance, Edgar Killen was convicted of their murders. .
1973 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
1974 The U.S. Supreme Court decided that pregnant teachers could no longer be forced to take long leaves of absence.
1982 John Hinckley Jr. is found not guilty by reason of insanity for attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.
1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1989 The U.S. Supreme Court decided that burning the U.S. flag was protected under the First Amendment.
1990 7.7 Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran; killing about 50,000
2005 Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman organizer was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964 41 years to the day earlier. He is sentenced to 60 years in prison.
2009 Greenland assumes self-rule The island had been administered by Denmark (earlier Denmark-Norway) for centuries.
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