June 21
1527 - Italian statesman, diplomat, and author of "The Prince," Niccolo Machiavelli died.
1788 - The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
1834 - Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper was patented.
1942 - German forces led by Generaloberst (Colonel General) Erwin Rommel captured the Libyan city of Tobruk during World War II. (Rommel was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal; Tobruk was retaken by the Allies in November 1942.)
1943 - Army nurse Lt. Edith Greenwood became the first woman to receive the Soldier’s Medal for showing heroism during a fire at a military hospital in Yuma, Arizona.
1954 - The American Cancer Society presented a study to the American Medical Association meeting in San Francisco which found that men who regularly smoked cigarettes died at a considerably higher rate than non-smokers.
1963 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Paul VI.
1964 - Three civil rights workers -- James E. Chaney (21), Andrew Goodman (21) and Michael Schwerne1r (24) -- disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi. In 2005, 41 years after the disappearance, Edgar Killen was convicted of their murders.
1973 - The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
1977 - Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister.
1982 - John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted murder of President Ronald Reagan.
1985 - Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989 - A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the U.S. flag as a form of political protest was protected under the First Amendment.
2002 - One of the worst wildfires in Arizona history grew to 128,000 acres, forcing thousands of homeowners near the community of Show Low to flee.
2004 - Michael Melvill pilots the first privately-developed spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, into space.
2005 - Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., 41 years to the day earlier.
2010 - Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to charges of plotting a failed car bombing in New York's Times Square. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.)
2011 - The Food and Drug Administration announced that cigarette packs in the U.S. would have to carry macabre images that included rotting teeth and gums, diseased lungs and a sewn-up corpse of a smoker as part of a graphic campaign aimed at discouraging Americans from lighting up.
2016 - Hillary Clinton, during a visit to the battleground state of Ohio, said Donald Trump would send the U.S. economy back into recession, warning that his “reckless” approach would hurt workers still trying to recover from the 2008 economic turbulence.
2020 - An initially peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon, against racial injustice turned violent, as police used flash-bang grenades to disperse demonstrators throwing bottles, cans and rocks at sheriff’s deputies.
Birthdays
22 - Kylee Renee (singer)
22 - Natalie Alyn Lind (actress)
24 - Rebecca Black (singer)
32 - Jascha Washington (actor)
36 - Lana Del Ray (singer)
38 - Michael Malarkey (actor)
39 - Benjamin Walker (actor)
39 - Jussie Smollett (actor)
39 - Prince William (member of British royal family)
40 - Brandon Flowers (singer)
42 - Chris Pratt (actor)
47 - Maggie Siff (actress)
48 - Juliette Lewis (actress)
49 - Allison Moorer (country singer)
53 - Paula Irvine (actress)
54 - Carrie Preston (actress)
56 - Michael Dolan (actor)
57 - Doug Savant (actor)
57 - Sammi Davis (actor)
59 - Marc Copage (actor)
62 - Kathy Mattea (country singer)
63 - Josh Pais (actor)
66 - Leigh McCloskey (actress)
69 - Robyn Douglass (actress)
74 - Michael Gross (actor)
74 - Meredith Baxter (actress)
80 - Joe Flaherty (comedian)
81 - Mariette Hartley (actress)
88 - Bernie Kopell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 21
1932 - Heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey. Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed "We was robbed!"
1939 - Lou Gehrig announced his retirement from baseball due to his illness.
1942 - Ben Hogan recorded the lowest score (to that time) in a major golf tournament. Hogan shot a 271 for 72 holes in Chicago.
1964 - Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game in a 6-0 victory over the New York Mets.
1970 - Brazil defeats Italy 4-1 in Mexico City to win the World Cup.
1970 - Tony Jacklin became the second British golfer in 50 years to win the U.S. Open golf tournament.
1986 - Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson signs a contract to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals.
1988 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Detroit Pistons in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1991 - Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy are elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
1994 - Steffi Graf becomes the first defending champion to lose in the first round of a major tournament as she fell to American Lorrie McNeal at Wimbledon.
1997 - The WNBA made its debut; the inaugural game saw the New York Liberty defeat the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57.
2002 - Lennox Lewis records a eighth round KO over Mike Tyson to retain the WBC heavyweight championship.
2012 - The Miami Heat defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games to win the NBA championship.
2015 - Jordan Spieth, at age 21, becomes the youngest U.S. Open champion since 1923.
2020 - NASCAR said a rope shaped like a noose had been found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only full-time Black driver in NASCAR’s elite Cup Series, at a race in Talladega, Alabama. (Federal authorities found that the rope had been hanging there for months, and that it was not a hate crime.)
1527 - Italian statesman, diplomat, and author of "The Prince," Niccolo Machiavelli died.
1788 - The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
1834 - Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper was patented.
1942 - German forces led by Generaloberst (Colonel General) Erwin Rommel captured the Libyan city of Tobruk during World War II. (Rommel was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal; Tobruk was retaken by the Allies in November 1942.)
1943 - Army nurse Lt. Edith Greenwood became the first woman to receive the Soldier’s Medal for showing heroism during a fire at a military hospital in Yuma, Arizona.
1954 - The American Cancer Society presented a study to the American Medical Association meeting in San Francisco which found that men who regularly smoked cigarettes died at a considerably higher rate than non-smokers.
1963 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Paul VI.
1964 - Three civil rights workers -- James E. Chaney (21), Andrew Goodman (21) and Michael Schwerne1r (24) -- disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi. In 2005, 41 years after the disappearance, Edgar Killen was convicted of their murders.
1973 - The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
1977 - Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister.
1982 - John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted murder of President Ronald Reagan.
1985 - Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989 - A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the U.S. flag as a form of political protest was protected under the First Amendment.
2002 - One of the worst wildfires in Arizona history grew to 128,000 acres, forcing thousands of homeowners near the community of Show Low to flee.
2004 - Michael Melvill pilots the first privately-developed spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, into space.
2005 - Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., 41 years to the day earlier.
2010 - Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to charges of plotting a failed car bombing in New York's Times Square. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.)
2011 - The Food and Drug Administration announced that cigarette packs in the U.S. would have to carry macabre images that included rotting teeth and gums, diseased lungs and a sewn-up corpse of a smoker as part of a graphic campaign aimed at discouraging Americans from lighting up.
2016 - Hillary Clinton, during a visit to the battleground state of Ohio, said Donald Trump would send the U.S. economy back into recession, warning that his “reckless” approach would hurt workers still trying to recover from the 2008 economic turbulence.
2020 - An initially peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon, against racial injustice turned violent, as police used flash-bang grenades to disperse demonstrators throwing bottles, cans and rocks at sheriff’s deputies.
Birthdays
22 - Kylee Renee (singer)
22 - Natalie Alyn Lind (actress)
24 - Rebecca Black (singer)
32 - Jascha Washington (actor)
36 - Lana Del Ray (singer)
38 - Michael Malarkey (actor)
39 - Benjamin Walker (actor)
39 - Jussie Smollett (actor)
39 - Prince William (member of British royal family)
40 - Brandon Flowers (singer)
42 - Chris Pratt (actor)
47 - Maggie Siff (actress)
48 - Juliette Lewis (actress)
49 - Allison Moorer (country singer)
53 - Paula Irvine (actress)
54 - Carrie Preston (actress)
56 - Michael Dolan (actor)
57 - Doug Savant (actor)
57 - Sammi Davis (actor)
59 - Marc Copage (actor)
62 - Kathy Mattea (country singer)
63 - Josh Pais (actor)
66 - Leigh McCloskey (actress)
69 - Robyn Douglass (actress)
74 - Michael Gross (actor)
74 - Meredith Baxter (actress)
80 - Joe Flaherty (comedian)
81 - Mariette Hartley (actress)
88 - Bernie Kopell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 21
1932 - Heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey. Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed "We was robbed!"
1939 - Lou Gehrig announced his retirement from baseball due to his illness.
1942 - Ben Hogan recorded the lowest score (to that time) in a major golf tournament. Hogan shot a 271 for 72 holes in Chicago.
1964 - Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game in a 6-0 victory over the New York Mets.
1970 - Brazil defeats Italy 4-1 in Mexico City to win the World Cup.
1970 - Tony Jacklin became the second British golfer in 50 years to win the U.S. Open golf tournament.
1986 - Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson signs a contract to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals.
1988 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Detroit Pistons in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1991 - Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy are elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
1994 - Steffi Graf becomes the first defending champion to lose in the first round of a major tournament as she fell to American Lorrie McNeal at Wimbledon.
1997 - The WNBA made its debut; the inaugural game saw the New York Liberty defeat the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57.
2002 - Lennox Lewis records a eighth round KO over Mike Tyson to retain the WBC heavyweight championship.
2012 - The Miami Heat defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games to win the NBA championship.
2015 - Jordan Spieth, at age 21, becomes the youngest U.S. Open champion since 1923.
2020 - NASCAR said a rope shaped like a noose had been found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only full-time Black driver in NASCAR’s elite Cup Series, at a race in Talladega, Alabama. (Federal authorities found that the rope had been hanging there for months, and that it was not a hate crime.)
