June 21st
Today in America's Present Past
1607| Civil Rights: The first Episcopal parish in America was established at Jamestown.
1631 | Jamestown explorer John Smith died.
1759 | Politician Alexander J. Dallas was born.
1768 | The first medical diploma in the U.S. was granted to Dr John Archer from the College of Philadelphia.
1774 | Politician Daniel D. Tompkins was born.
1788 | Statehood: New Hampshire granted statehood.
1788 | The U.S. Constitution became effective as the ninth state ratified it.
1810 | POTUS: President Zachary Taylor weds Margaret Smith.
1832 | The first African American member of Congress, Joseph Rainey was born.
1834 | Entrepreneur Cyrus McCormick patents the “reaping” machine.
1837 | Chess player Paul Morphy was born.
1851 | Author and founder of the Boy Scouts of America, Daniel Carter Beard was born.
1853 | Entrepreneur Russell Hawes patents an “envelope folding” machine.
1863 | Civil War: Battle at Upperville, Virginia.
1877 | Civil Rights: The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania prison.
1879 | Entrepreneur Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his first store.
1892 | Cleric Reinhold Niebuhr was born.
1893 | Entrepreneur Leland Stanford died.
1893 | The first Ferris Wheel opens at an exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
1899 | Inventor Richard Gurley Drew was born.
1903 | Outlaw John Dillinger was born.
1906 | Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born.
1907 | The United Press Association is formed by E. W. Scripps.
1913 | Tiny Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an airplane.
1916 | Mexican Expedition: Mexican troops defeat US forces at the Battle of Carrizal.
1922 | Herrin, Illinois, labor massacre.
1939 | Baseball Pro Lou Gehrig announces his retirement.
1940 | General Smedley Butler died.
1942 | WWII: Japanese bomb Fort Stevens in Oregon.
1944 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt signed the “G.I. Bill of Rights.”
1945 | WWII: U.S. forces liberate Okinawa.
1948 | Columbia Records introduce the 33 1/3 LP record.
1949 | Civil Rights: Fairground Park race riot, St. Louis, Missouri.
1955 | Film: Disney releases “Lady & The Tramp.”
1964 | Civil Rights: Three civil rights workers - Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney disappear, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.
1979 | Actor Chris Pratt was born.
1983 | Traitor Edward Snowden was born.
2001 | Actor Carroll O’Connor died.
2002 | Film: Disney releases the film “Lilo & Stitch.”
2003 | Novelist Leon Uris died.
2007 | Entrepreneur Leon Uris died.
2018 | Journalist Charles Krauthammer died.