Today in History - June 21
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217BCE Jun 21, Carthaginian forces
led by Hannibal destroyed a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminicy in
a battle at Lake Trasimenus in central Italy. Hannibal of Carthage
attacked Roman Consul Flaminio at Tuoro on Lake Trasimeno in Umbria.
Hannibal’s army of Numidians, Berbers, Libyans, Gascons, and Iberians
was down to one elephant after crossing the Alps with 39. His army of
40,000 drove the Romans into the lake where 15,000 died as opposed to
1,500 of Hannibal’s men. 2 nearby towns were named Ossaia (boneyard)
and Sanguineto (bloodied).
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.37)(HN, 6/21/98)
524CE Jun 21, Battle at Vezerone:
Burgundy beat France.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1002 Jun 21, Pope Leo IX was born.
He brought the conflict between Rome and the eastern Church to a head
in 1054, ending with the Patriarch of Constantinople being
excommunicated and the creation of the Schism.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1377 Jun 21, Edward III (b.1312),
King of England (1322-1377), died. Richard II, who was still a child,
succeeded his father. In 1966 H.J. Hewitt authored “The Organization of
War Under Edward III.” In 1978 Richard Barber authored “Edward, Prince
of Wales and Aquitaine.” In 1980 Michael Prestwich authored “The Three
Edwards: War and State in England 1272-1377.” Lines of his 3rd and 4th
sons, houses Lancaster and York engaged in the Wars of the Roses.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R6)(ON, 9/00, p.2)(AM, 7/01,
p.69)(HN, 6/21/98)
1498 Jun 21, Jews were expelled
from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1527 Jun 21, Nicolo Machiavelli
(b.1469), Florentine statesman, author (The Prince), died. “When the
effect is good... it will always excuse the deed.”
(WSJ, 5/21/96, p.A-16)(WSJ, 6/22/98,
p.A20)(www.online-literature.com/machiavelli/)
1529 Jun 21, John Skelton (69),
English poet, died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1547 Jun 21, There was a great
fire in Moscow.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1591 Jun 21, Aloysius
[Luigi] Gonzaga, Prince, Italian Jesuit saint, died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1596 Jun 21, Mikhail Feodorovich
Romanov (d.1645), 1st Romanov Tsar of Russia (1613-45), was born.
(WUD, 1994 p.1242)(MC, 6/21/02)
1607 Jun 21, The Church of England
Episcopal Church, the 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America, was
established at Jamestown, Va. The 39 articles of the Episcopal Faith
included the statement: "There is but one living and true God,
everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite power,
wisdom and goodness; the Maker, and Preserver of all things both
visible and invisible."
(SFC, 7/21/97, p.A11)(MC, 6/21/02)(WSJ, 6/20/03,
p.W15)
1631 Jun 21, John Smith (b.1580),
English sailor, soldier and author, died in England. He had helped
found the English colony at Jamestown, Va.
(ON, 2/07, p.9)(www.virtualjamestown.org/jsmith.html)
1633 Jun 21, Galileo Galilei was
tortured and threatened by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest"
his Copernican heliocentric views.
(JST-TMC,1983, p.7)(MC, 6/21/02)
1675 Jun 21, Sir Christopher Wren
began to rebuild St Paul’s Cathedral in London, replacing the old
building which had been destroyed by the Great fire. It was completed
in 1708.
(HN, 6/21/01)(Econ, 6/7/08, p.98)
1764 Jun 21, William Sydney Smith,
British seaman, was born. He bested Napoleon Bonaparte at the port of
St. Jean d'Acre in the Mediterranean Sea.
(HN, 6/21/00)
1684 Jun 21, King Charles II
revoked the 1629 Massachusetts Bay Colony charter. [see 1691]
(HNQ, 11/23/00)(MC, 6/21/02)
1732 Jun 21, Johann Christoph
Frederic Bach (d.1795), composer, was born. He is known as the
Buckeburg Bach for serving in that city his whole life.
(LGC-HCS, p.31)(MC, 6/21/02)
1788 Jun 21, The U.S. Constitution
went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1791 Jun 21, King Louis XVI and
the French royal family were arrested in Varennes. In 2003 Timothy
Tackett authored "When the King Took Flight," an examination of the
political culture during this period of transformation.
(HN, 6/21/98)(SSFC, 5/18/03, p.M6)
1813 Jun 21, The Peninsular War
ended. It began on February 16, 1808, when Napoleon ordered a large
French force into Spain under the pretext of sending reinforcements to
the French army occupying Portugal.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1821 Jun 21, African Methodist
Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church was organized in NYC as a national body.
[see Mar 14]
(MC, 6/21/02)
1834 Jun 21, Cyrus Hall McCormick
received a patent for his reaping machine.
(AP, 6/21/97)(HN, 6/21/98)
1843 Jun 21, In Britain the Royal
College of Surgeons was founded from the original Barber-Surgeons
Company.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1851 Jun 21, Daniel Carter Beard,
organized the first [US] boy scout troop, was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1852 Jun 21, Friedrich Frobel
(b.1782), founder of the Play and Activity Institute (1837) in Germany,
died. In 1840 he created the word kindergarten to describe the
institute.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_August_Froebel)
1854 Jun 21, The first Victoria
Cross was awarded to Charles Lucas, an Irishman and mate aboard the HMS
Hecla for conspicuous gallantry at Bomarsrund in the Baltic. The medal
was made from metal from a cannon captured at Sebastopol.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1859 Jun 21, Henry Ossawa Tanner,
African-American painter, was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1862 Jun 21, Union and Confederate
forces skirmished at the Chickahominy Creek during the Peninsular
Campaign.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1863 Jun 21, In the second day of
fighting, Confederate cavalry failed to dislodge a Union force at the
Battle of LaFourche Crossing in Louisiana.
(HN, 6/21/00)
1868 Jun 21, The first performance
of Wagner’s opera Die Meistersinger took place in Munich.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1874 Jun 21, The Schooner America,
designed by George Steers, was sold at auction for $5000 to former
Union Gen. Benjamin Butler, who transferred it from Annapolis to
Portsmouth, NH, where he sailed it till he died. By 1942 the hull of
the schooner became unsalvageable and it was burned. The rudder was
saved and put on display at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.
(AH, 2/03, p.29,31)
1876 Jun 21, The first gorilla
arrived in Britain.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1879 Jun 21, Umberto Brunelleschi,
Italian cartoonist, illustrator (Candide), was born.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1879 Jun 21, F.W. Woolworth opened
his 1st store. It failed almost immediately. Frank Woolworth added
10-cent items to the Great 5-Cent Store in Lancaster, Pa., and created
Woolworth’s five-and-ten. This was his 2nd attempt after a failure in
Utica. He took in $127 during his first day of business.
(WSJ, 9/26/96, p.B1)(SFC,10/20/97, p.B2)(MC, 6/21/02)
1880 Jun 21, Arnold Lucius Gesell,
psychologist and pediatrician, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1882 Jun 21, Rockwell Kent
(d.1971), artist, book illustrator, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1884 Jun 21, Field Marshal Sir
Claude Auchinleck, British general, was born. He revived the flagging
Eighth Army to go back on the offensive against the German army under
Rommel in the Middle East, but was later replaced.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1887 Jun 21, Britain celebrated
the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1891 Jun 21, Hermann Scherchen,
conductor (Nature of Music), was born in Berlin, Germany.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1892 Jun 21, Reinhold Niebuhr
(d.1971), American Protestant clergyman and author was born. “The
tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is
... the source of all religious fanaticism.”
(AP, 5/4/97)(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 6/21/01)
1893 Jun 21, George Washington
Gale Ferris, engineer, completed the construction of a 254-foot high
revolving steel wheel with 38 passenger cars, each with 40 plush
chairs, for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
(ON, 11/99, p.7)(MC, 6/21/02)
1897 Jun 21, In Austria a giant
Ferris wheel, designed by Walter Bassett of England, opened in Vienna.
It was built in the Wurstelprater amusement park to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the accession of Emperor Franz Joseph to the
Habsburg throne.
(Econ, 5/31/08, p.71)(http://tinyurl.com/3tawph)
1898 Jun 21, Guam became a US
territory. [see Jun 20, Jul 21]
(MC, 6/21/02)
1900 Jun 21, General Arthur
MacArthur offered amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1900 Jun 21, After the Empress
declared war on all foreign powers, the Boxers began a two-month
assault on the legations in Beijing. An international force of
Japanese, Russian, German, American, British, Italian and
Austro-Hungarian troops put down the uprising by August 14. The Boxer
Rebellion was a violent, anti-foreign uprising that broke out in
reaction to years of foreign interference with Chinese affairs. Led by
a Chinese secret society called Yi He Tuan--"the Righteous, Harmonious
Fists"--the Boxers were aided by the Empress Dowager Ci Xi and pillaged
the countryside, murdering foreigners and Chinese Christians. In 2000
Diana Preston authored “The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of
China’s War on foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900.”
(HNPD, 6/21/99)(WSJ, 6/20/00, p.A24)
1903 Jun 21, Al[bert] Hirschfield,
cartoonist (NINA, NY Times), was born in St Louis, Mo.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1905 Jun 21, Jean-Paul Sartre
(d.1980), French philosopher and existentialist, was born. He won the
Nobel Prize in 1964 but declined it. His works include “The Road to
Freedom.”
(HN, 6/21/98)(AP, 2/15/00)
1907 Jun 21, American newspaper
publisher E.W. Scripps founded the United Press Associations, a
forerunner of United Press International.
(AP, 6/21/07)
1908 Jun 21, Nikolai A.
Rimsky-Korsakov (64), prolific Russian composer, orchestrator
(Scheherazade, The Tsar's Bride, The Legend of the Invisible City of
Kitezh), died in Lyubensk.
(AP, 6/21/08)
1908 Jun 21, Mulai Hafid again
proclaimed himself the true sultan of Morocco.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1911 Jun 21, Albert Hirschfield,
illustrator, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1911 Jun 21, Porfirio Diaz, the
ex-president of Mexico, exiled himself to Paris.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1912 Jun 21, Mary McCarthy,
American novelist whose works include “Memories of Catholic Girlhood”
and “The Group,” was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1915 Jun 21, Germany used poison
gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1916 Jun 21, Mexican troops beat a
US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1919 Jun 21, German sailors under
Admiral von Reuter scuttled 72 warships at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys
even though Germany had surrendered. It was the greatest act of
self-destruction in modern military history.
(HN, 6/21/98)(Camelot, 6/21/99)(MC, 6/21/02)
1921 Jun 21, U.S. Army Air Service
pilots bombed the captured German battleship Ostfriesland to
demonstrate the effectiveness of aerial bombing on warships. At the
time, the ship was one of the world's largest war vessels. Brigadier
General William "Billy" Mitchell, assistant chief of the Army Air
Service, arranged the demonstration to prove that air power should
become the country's first line of defense. Most military leaders
doubted that airplanes could inflict serious damage on warships.
Mitchell's tests proved them wrong.
(HN, 6/22/99)
1922 Jun 21, Judy Holliday,
actress, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1923 Jun 21, Marcus Garvey was
sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1927 Jun 21, Carl Stokes, the
first black mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1928 Jun 21, Judith Raskin,
soprano, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1931 Jun 21, Margaret Heckler,
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Reagan
administration, was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1932 Jun 21, Lalo [Boris]
Schifrin, composer, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1932 Jun 21, Heavyweight Max
Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey; Schmeling's
manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed: "We was robbed!"
(AP, 6/21/97)
1934 Jun 21, [James] Thorne Smith,
US fantasy author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout), died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1935 Jun 21, Jack Loreen (34),
holder of the world’s roller skating record from New York to Miami,
allowed himself to be buried at Balboa Street and the Great Highway in
San Francisco in a effort to beat his 65-day record, established last
year, for being buried alive in a coffin.
(SSFC, 6/20/10, DB p.50)
1936 Jun 21, The first Herb Caen
(age 20) column appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. He replaced
J.E. "Dinty" Doyle. Executive editor Paul C. Smith had hired Caen to
write a radio column. Caen later began writing a column about San
Francisco titled “It’s News to Me,” and became the paper’s best known
writer.
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C1)(SFEC, 2/2/97, p.A12)(SSFC,
6/7/09, p.W2)
1937 Jun 21, Wimbledon was
televised for the first time.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1939 Jun 21, Baseball legend Lou
Gehrig was forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1940 Jun 21, Estonia’s Pres.
Päts appointed a new government led by PM Johannes Vares under
pressure from Andrei Zhdanov, head of the Leningrad branch of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
(www.historycommission.ee/temp/conclusions_frame.htm)
1940 Jun 21, German occupiers
disbanded the Dutch States-General, Council of State.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1942 Jun 21, President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill met in Washington, DC.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1942 Jun 21, German General Erwin
Rommel captured the port city of Tobruk in North Africa and 25,000
Allied troops.
(HN, 6/21/98)(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1943 Jun 21, The US Supreme Court
held the broad claims of Guglielmo Marconi's patent for improvements in
apparatus for wireless telegraphy to be invalid. First written for
publication by the Antique Wireless Association, this monograph shows
how the nation's high court arrived at its decision. It provides an
answer to the continuing argument regarding the popular misconception
that Marconi invented radio.
(www.mercurians.org/nov98/misreading.html)
1944 Jun 21, Very heavy bombing
took place on Berlin.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1945 Jun 21, Japanese forces on
Okinawa surrendered to the Americans. American soldiers on Okinawa
found the body of the Japanese commander, Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima,
who had committed suicide. The embattled destroyer USS Laffey survived
horrific damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa.
[see Jun 22]
(HN, 6/21/98)(AP, 6/21/99)
1946 Jun 21, Bill Veeck bought the
Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1948 Jun 21, The Republican
national convention opened in Philadelphia. The delegates ended up
choosing Thomas E. Dewey to be their presidential nominee.
(AP, 6/21/07)
1948 Jun 21, Lord Mountbatten
resigned as Viceroy of India.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1953 Jun 21, Benazir Bhutto, Prime
Minister of Pakistan, was born. She was elected in 1988 after the
military regime had agreed to free elections following the death of
President Zhia.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1955 Jun 21, The David Lean movie
"Summertime" starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi had its
world premiere in New York.
(AP, 6/21/05)
1958 Jun 21, A federal judge
allowed Little Rock Arkansas to delay school integration.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1963 Jun 21, Cardinal Giovanni
Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head
of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pope took the name Paul VI.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1963 Jun 21, France announced it
would withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1964 Jun 21, Byron de la Beckwith
was arrested for the murder of Medgar Evers. He was found guilty 30
years later.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1964 Jun 21, Three young civil
rights workers, Andrew Goodman 20, Michael Schwerner 24, and James
Chaney 21, disappeared near Meridian, Mississippi. Their car was found
burning late in the day. 40 days later their bodies were found buried
in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss. 8 Klansman went to prison on
federal conspiracy charges but none served more than 6 years, and
murder charges were never filed. The event inspired the 1988 film
Mississippi Burning. In 2005 Edgar Ray Killen (80) was arrested in
Philadelphia, Miss., and convicted of manslaughter in the abduction and
killing of the 3 voter-registration volunteers. He was sentenced to
three 20-year terms. Billy Wayne Posey (73), a key suspect in the
killings, died in 2009.
(SFEC, 2/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 6/21/97)(HN,
6/21/01)(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/24/05, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/16/09, p.A9)
1965 Jun 21, Bernard M. Baruch
(94), US presidential advisor, died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1969 Jun 21, The 14th Symphony by
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) premiered in Moscow.
(www.c4md.org/hancher/kremerata.html)
1970 Jun 21, Penn Central was
forced into bankruptcy. The default caught the market by surprise,
largely because commercial paper ratings were in their infancy. Fed
chairman Arthur Burns reacted by making discount window loans to banks
that lent to CP issuers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Central_Transportation)(WSJ,
8/30/07, p.A3)
1970 Jun 21, Tony Jacklin became
the first British golfer to win the US Open for 50 years, and with his
British Open victory eleven months earlier, he became only the third
golfer to accomplish this double within a 12-month period.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1972 Jun 21, The TV sitcom "Corner
Bar" began its 1st of 2 seasons.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, DB.
p.35)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0546094/)
1973 Jun 21, The US Supreme Court,
in Miller v. California, ruled that states may ban materials found to
be obscene according to local standards.
(AP, 6/21/08)
1973 Jun 21, The US Supreme Court,
in Keyes v. School District No. 1, ordered the complete desegregation
of the Denver school system.
(SFC, 5/18/99,
p.A21)(http://law.jrank.org/pages/13362/Keyes-v-School-District-No-1.html)
1975 Jun 21, The West Indies,
captained by Clive Lloyd won the first World Cup Cricket series,
beating Australia by 17 runs at Lords.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Cricket_World_Cup)
1977 Jun 21, HR Haldeman, former
White House chief of staff, entered prison.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1977-6/)
1977 Jun 21, Menachem Begin became
Israel's sixth prime minister at the head of a Likud coalition.
(AP, 6/21/97)(WSJ, 4/29/98, p.A22)
1978 Jun 21, The musical play
“Evita” by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice had its first stage
performance in London’s West End. It featured Elaine Page as Evita.
(TL, 1988, p.119)(SFC, 9/1/96, DB p.42)(Hem., 1/97,
p.106)(AP, 6/21/98)
1978 Jun 21, Dr. LeMaistre and Art
Dilly flew to New York City with checks totaling $2.4 million to
purchase a complete edition of the two-volume, 1456 Gutenberg Bible.
The Carl H. and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation of NYC had sold the
Gutenberg Bible to the Ransom Center of Texas.
(www.utexas.edu/news/2003/07/22/nr_hrc/)(http://tinyurl.com/32vox7)
1979 Jun 21, Mayor Diane Feinstein
returned from her visit to China, where she signed a sister-city
relationship with Shanghai. In August Wang Bingnam announced that San
Francisco and Shanghai will become “friendship cities.”
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A3)(SFC, 12/15/99, p.A19)(SFC,
6/18/04, p.F2)(SFC, 8/27/04, p.F2)
1982 Jun 21, A jury in Washington,
D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the
shootings of President Reagan and three other men.
(AP, 6/21/97)(HN, 6/21/98)
1982 Jun 21, Prince William,
eldest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William_of_Wales)
1985 Jun 21, American, Brazilian
and West German scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in
Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
(AP,
6/21/97)(www.paperlessarchives.com/mengele.html)
1987 Jun 21, Violence continued in
South Korea, where riot police broke up protests in the cities of Seoul
and Pusan for a second day.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1988 Jun 21, The Roger Rabbit
cartoon character debuted in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
(www.metacritic.com/video/titles/whoframedrogerrabbit)
1988 Jun 21, The Los Angeles
Lakers repeated as NBA champions as they beat the Detroit Pistons,
108-105.
(AP, 6/21/98)
1988 Jun 21, Leaders of the
world's seven richest nations concluded their three-day summit in
Toronto.
(AP, 6/21/98)
1989 Jun 21, The US Supreme Court
ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is
protected by the First Amendment.
(AP 6/21/97)
1990 Jun 21, An estimated 50,000
Iranians were killed in a magnitude 7.3 to 7.7 earthquake. The
earthquake killed some 35,000 people in Gilan and neighboring Zanjan
province.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.C1)(AP, 6/21/00)(AP, 6/22/02)
1991 Jun 21, US Secretary of State
James Baker visited Yugoslavia, where he pleaded for a peaceful
solution to multi-ethnic conflicts that were threatening to erupt into
civil war.
(AP, 6/21/01)
1992 Jun 21, Democrat Bill Clinton
unveiled an economic blueprint calling for substantially higher taxes
on the rich.
(AP, 6/21/02)
1992 Jun 21, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin returned home from his North America tour.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1993 Jun 21, The US Supreme Court
ruled that Haitian boat people could be stopped at sea and returned
home without asylum hearings.
(AP, 6/21/98)
1994 Jun 21, Summer solstice. The
official beginning of summer.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 40)
1994 Jun 21, President Clinton,
addressing members of the Business Roundtable, made an impassioned call
for action on health care reform.
(AP, 6/21/99)
1994 Jun 21, Seven people died and
more than 200 were sickened by fumes from the lethal nerve gas sarin in
Matsumoto in Central Japan. The Aum Shinri Kyo (Kyi) cult (Supreme
Truth) was later charged with the attack.
(SFC, 4/24/96, p.A-8)(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A13)
1994 Jun 21, American teenager
Michael Fay was released from a Singapore prison, where he'd been
flogged for vandalism.
(AP, 6/21/04)
1995 Jun 21, Dr. Henry Foster lost
a crucial Senate vote in his bid to become surgeon general as only 57
senators voted to cut off debate, three short of the 60 needed. One
last vote the next day also fell short.
(HN, 6/21/98)(AP, 6/21/00)
1996 Jun 21, Pentagon officials
said American troops destroyed an Iraqi ammunition depot in March 1991
that may have contained chemical weapons.
(AP, 6/21/06)
1996 Jun 21, The $46 million
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art opened.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.D1)
1996 Jun 21, Good reviews for the
new animated Disney release of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
(WSJ, 6/20/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 21, European leaders
agreed to gradually lift a global ban on British beef exports imposed
nearly three months earlier following a scare over "mad cow" disease.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1996 Jun 21, In Cambodia Khmer
Rouge guerrillas held dozens of sawmill workers for ransom and killed
14 of them with axes.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 21, In Nicaragua 33
election workers were released after being held for 2 days by re-armed
contras in Honduras.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.A13)
1997 Jun 21, The WNBA made its
debut as the New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57.
(AP, 6/21/98)
1997 Jun 21, The G-7 Summit became
the G-8 with the addition of Russia at its meeting in Denver. Moscow
was admitted to the Paris Club of creditors. Summit leaders meeting in
Denver wrestled with a list of global challenges.
(SFC, 6/20/97, p.A16)(WSJ, 6/23/97, p.A1)(AP,
6/21/98)
1997 Jun 21, A terrorist bomb
rocked Belfast. Three people were slightly injured and pro-British
loyalist forces were suspected to be responsible.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.D1)
1997 Jun 21, Palestinian riots
spread to Nablus on the West Bank protesting Jewish settlements.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.D3)
1997 Jun 21, From Thailand it was
reported that operators of illegal logging ventures in northern
Thailand were feeding their elephants amphetamine-laced bananas to
speed up work before the rainy season. The practice began a few years
ago and 10 animals have died of overwork and exhaustion.
(SFC, 6/21/97, p.A11)
1998 Jun 21, In the soccer World
Cup Iran knocked out the US team 2-1.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, The Chechen security
chief, Lecha Khulygov, and a guerrilla commander, Vakha Dzhafarov,
fatally shot each other in an argument over a demonstration by rebel
supporters.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In Colombia, former
Bogota Mayor Andres Pastrana was elected president, defeating Horacio
Serpa, a key player in the scandal-tainted administration of President
Ernesto Samper.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)(AP, 6/21/08)
1998 Jun 21, In the Czech Republic
the Social Democrats placed first in parliamentary elections.
(WSJ, 6/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 21, In England the Druids
were allowed to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In India a deal was
signed in New Delhi with Russia to build power plants for two nuclear
reactors.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 21, The Israeli Cabinet
approved a plan to expand Jerusalem’s control far beyond its current
borders, despite protests from Palestinians and warnings from
Washington that the move was “provocative.”
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, In Moscow a violent
storm left 6 dead and heavy damage to the Bolshoi Theater and the wall
of the Kremlin.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In the soccer World
Cup Iran knocked out the US team 2-1.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, The Chechen security
chief, Lecha Khulygov, and a guerrilla commander, Vakha Dzhafarov,
fatally shot each other in an argument over a demonstration by rebel
supporters.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In Colombia, former
conservative Bogota mayor Andres Pastrana was elected the country's
president, defeating Horacio Serpa, a key player in the scandal-tainted
administration of President Ernesto Samper.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)(AP, 6/21/99)
1998 Jun 21, In the Czech Republic
the Social Democrats placed first in parliamentary elections.
(WSJ, 6/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 21, In England the Druids
were allowed to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In India a deal was
signed in New Delhi with Russia to build power plants for two nuclear
reactors.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 21, The Israeli Cabinet
approved a plan to expand Jerusalem’s control far beyond its current
borders, despite protests from Palestinians and warnings from
Washington that the move was “provocative.”
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, In Moscow a violent
storm left 6 dead and heavy damage to the Bolshoi Theater and the wall
of the Kremlin.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, Elections were held
in Togo. When returns showed Pres. Eyadama trailing one of his generals
took over the ballot counting. Soldiers killed hundreds. Vote counting
stopped, and Eyadema was declared winner.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A12)(SFC, 7/24/99, p.C1)(AP, 6/1/03)
1999 Jun 21, Pres. Clinton visited
Slovenia, met with Pres. Milan Kucan, and praised the country for
standing up to Milosevic and declaring independence.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 21, US warplanes bombed
Iraqi air defense sites in the northern and southern no-fly zones.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 21, In Colombia FARC
guerrillas attacked the paramilitary United Self Defense Forces (AUC)
in the Nudo de Paramillo mountain range. At least 68 people were
reported killed in the fighting.
(SFC, 6/24/99, p.A10)
1999 Jun 21, Fighting broke out in
the Republic of Congo near the main port of Pointe-Noire. 140 people
were reported killed by the end of the week.
(SFC, 6/25/99, p.D2)
1999 Jun 21, Indian soldiers
cleared Islamic guerrillas from a 2nd mountain outpost, Point 5203, and
killed at least 10 guerrillas.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 21, In Kosovo 2 soldiers
of the British Nepalese Gurkha force and 2 civilians were killed as
ammunition was being cleared in Negrovce. Refugee Serbs demonstrated
against Milosevic for abandoning them in Kosovo.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A1,11)
1999 Jun 21, NATO finalized an
agreement with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to demilitarize.
(SFC, 6/21/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 21, It was reported that
Libya would pay $40 million to the families of those killed in the Sep
19, 1989 bombing of a French jet.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)
2000 Jun 21, Some 55 years after
World War Two ended, 22 Asian-American veterans received the Medal of
Honor for bravery on the battlefield during a White House ceremony.
(AP, 6/21/01)
2000 Jun 21, In San Leandro, Ca.,
Stuart Alexander (39), owner of the Santo Linguisa sausage factory,
shot and killed 3 government meat inspectors, Jean Hillery (56), Tom
Quadros (52), and Bill Shaline (57). In 2004 Alexander was convicted of
3 counts of 1st-degree murder. In 2005 Alexander was sentenced to death.
(SFC, 6/22/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/23/00, p.A6)(SFC,
10/20/04, p.B1)(SFC, 2/16/05, p.B5)
2000 Jun 21, In Chechnya 2 Russian
soldiers were killed and 2 wounded in a rebel ambush near Mesker-Yurt.
(SFC, 6/23/00, p.A20)
2000 Jun 21, North Korea extended
its ban on missile flight-testing and the US responded with plans to
renew talks to curb the long-range missile program. North Korea
promised to refrain from long-range missile tests after the United
States lifted some economic sanctions against it.
(SFC, 6/22/00, p.A12)(AP, 6/21/01)
2001 Jun 21, A federal grand jury
in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996
bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American
servicemen.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2001 Jun 21, The first total solar
eclipse of the new millennium swept across southern Africa.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2001 Jun 21, Carroll O’Connor
(b.1924), actor known for his role as Archie Bunker in the TV series
"All in the Family," died at age 76.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.110)
2001 Jun 21, John Lee Hooker
(b.1917), blues musician, died at age 83. His tunes included "Boom,
Boom," and "Boogie Chillen."
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Jun 21, In China jailed Falun
Gong members attempted a group suicide in a northeast labor camp. 10-14
reportedly died by hanging.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 21, In Northern Ireland
police and British soldiers battled Catholic and Protestant rioters in
Belfast for a 2nd day and 3rd night. 39 police officers were injured.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 6/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 21, In Japan PM Koizumi
outlined an aggressive economic reform program that promised to shrink
the government and create new economic incentives. Banks were given 2-3
years to solve their bad-loan problems.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 6/22/01, p.A11)
2001 Jun 21, In the Philippines 3
severed heads were found in the area where Muslim extremists claimed to
have killed Guillermo Sobero of Riverside, Ca.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A15)
2002 Jun 21, 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.
(AP, 6/21/03)
2002 cJun 21, Timothy Findley
(d.2002), Canadian writer, died in France. His novels included “The
Wars” (1977), and “Pilgrim” (1999).
(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A18)
2002 Jun 21, In Burundi a court
has sentenced 11 people to death and 16 others to life imprisonment for
taking part in massacres that followed the 1993 assassination of
Burundi's first democratically elected leader.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2002 Jun 21, Israeli tanks opened
fire on the market in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, killing 4
Palestinians, including 3 children, hospital officials said. The
Israeli army said soldiers had mistakenly fired on a group of curfew
violators. Israelis from the West Bank settlement of Itamar returning
from funerals killed a Palestinian during a rampage in the village of
Hawara.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2002 Jun 21, In Kashmir 13
suspected Islamic militants were killed in the Indian-controlled
section. Rebels killed Ghulam Rasool, a member of the governing
national Conference Party. In the Pakistan-controlled section a sniper
opened fire on a truck carrying 22 people and 10 were killed when it
plunged into a ravine.
(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A6)
2002 Jun 21, Abu Sabaya (Aldam
Tilao), one of the Philippines' most wanted Muslim rebels and the key
man in last year's kidnapping of a U.S. missionary couple, was
reportedly shot and likely killed in a clash with government troops.
(Reuters, 6/21/02)(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A6)
2002 Jun 21, Two car bombs
exploded at Spanish coastal resort as a European Union summit got under
way about 90 miles away at a heavily guarded convention center in
Seville.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2003 Jun 21, Lennox Lewis retained
his heavyweight title after a cut stopped Vitali Klitschko after six
brawling rounds in Los Angeles.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2003 Jun 21, Ten weeks after the
fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, President Bush offered a broadly
positive status report on the U.S. mission in Iraq in his weekly radio
address.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2003 Jun 21, J.K. Rowling's 5th
Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," went on
sale.
(SFC, 6/21/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 21, George Axelrod
(b.1922), playwright, died in Los Angeles. His plays included "The
Seven Year Itch" (1952).
(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.A27)
2003 Jun 21, Leon Uris (78),
author, died on New York's Shelter Island. His books included "Battle
Cry" (1953), the best-selling "Exodus" (1958) and "Mila 18" (1960).
(AP, 6/24/03)(SFC, 6/25/03, p.A25)
2003 Jun 21, In Afghanistan Abdul
Wali (28), a detainee held at a US base, died following 2 days of
interrogation. In 2004 David A. Passaro, former Army Ranger, was
charged with assault in connection to Wali’s death. In 2006 Passaro, a
former CIA contractor, was convicted in North Carolina of assaulting
Abdul Wali with a metal flashlight. In 2007 Passaro was sentenced to 8
½ years in prison.
(SFC, 6/18/04, p.A1)(SFC, 8/18/06, p.A5)(SFC,
2/14/07, p.A3)
2003 Jun 21, China's Xinhua News
Agency reported that archaeologists in western China had discovered
five earthenware jars of 2,000-year-old rice wine in an ancient Han
dynasty tomb (206BCE-25CE), and its bouquet was still strong enough to
perk up the nose.
(AP, 6/21/03)
2003 Jun 21, Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder appealed for a swift end to three weeks of union strikes
demanding a shorter work week in formerly communist eastern Germany,
warning of further damage to the already weak economy.
(AP, 6/21/03)
2003 Jun 21, The Israeli army
killed Abdullah Kawasme, a local Hamas leader, in the West Bank town of
Hebron.
(AP, 6/22/03)(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.A9)
2004 Jun 21, The US Supreme Court
ruled 5-4 that people can be arrested for refusing to give their names
to police even if no crime is alleged.
(WSJ, 6/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 21, Connecticut Gov. John
G. Rowland announced his resignation, amid a federal corruption
investigation and a growing move to impeach him.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2004 Jun 21, SpaceShipOne lifted
off from the Mojave Desert in the initial stage of the world's first
attempted commercial space flight. SpaceShipOne reached 62.21 miles. It
was designed by legendary aerospace designer Burt Rutan and was built
with more than $20 million in funding by billionaire Paul Allen. It was
piloted by Michael Melvill.
(AP, 6/21/04)(WSJ, 6/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 21, In northeastern
Bangladesh a bomb exploded at an opposition rally wounding nearly 40
people.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2004 Jun 21, Ephrem Nkezabera
(52), a former Rwandan banker, was arrested in Brussels and held on
charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1994 Rwandan
massacre.
(AP, 7/30/04)
2004 Jun 21, In central Bolivia a
crowded bus plunged off a 800-foot precipice, killing as many as 38
people.
(AP, 6/23/04)
2004 Jun 21, Leonel Brizola
(b.1922), former governor of Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro
states, died of a heart attack. Brizola, one of Brazil's most notable
leftist politicians, created and armed the so-called "Groups of 11,"
cells designed to resist the military dictatorship.
(AP, 6/22/04)(SFC, 6/24/04, p.B6)
2004 Jun 21, Local and
international police officials warned that Europe is awash in
counterfeit euro bills of excellent quality.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2004 Jun 21, In Iraq ambushes in
Ramadi left 4 US soldiers dead. A roadside bomb south of Mosul killed 5
Iraqi contractors.
(SFC, 6/22/04, p.D1)
2004 Jun 21, Iran’s Revolutionary
Guards, known as Pasdaran, confiscated three British military vessels
and arrested eight armed crew members in the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
The men were released 2 days later.
(AP, 6/21/04)(SFC, 6/24/04, p.A12)(Econ, 4/7/07,
p.24)
2004 Jun 21, A Swiss court cleared
the way for Gypsies to sue IBM over allegations that the computer
company's expertise helped the Nazis commit mass murder more
efficiently.
(AP, 6/22/04)
2004 Jun 21, Vietnam's central
bank said it has given approval to the US-based Far East National Bank
to open a branch in Ho Chi Minh City, the 3rd US bank branched in
Vietnam.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2005 Jun 21, President Bush told
Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai that he supports Vietnam's bid
to join the WTO, in the first visit by the Vietnamese leader since the
war.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, It was reported that
the number of California state employees who earned over $132,000
nearly doubled from 2002 to 2004.
(SFC, 6/21/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 21, American warplanes
pounded a suspected Taliban safe haven in southern Afghanistan in an
assault that left up to 76 insurgents and five policeman dead and five
U.S. soldiers wounded.
(AP, 6/22/05)(SFC, 6/23/05, p.A10)
2005 Jun 21, Edgar Ray Killen (80)
was convicted in Philadelphia, Miss., of manslaughter in the 1964
abduction and killing of 3 voter-registration volunteers.
(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 21, US researchers said a
common virus that is harmless to people can destroy cancerous cells in
the body and might be developed into a new cancer therapy. The
adeno-associated virus type 2, or AAV-2, infects an estimated 80
percent of the population.
(Reuters, 6/22/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Argentina retired
Gen. Guillermo Suarez Mason (81), a former junta commander under arrest
in connection with probes of suspected illegal adoptions dating to the
past dictatorship.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, Austria’s Health
Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat announced a cow in an alpine farm Austria
has been found to be infected with mad cow disease.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, China appointed
Donald Tsang as Hong Kong's new leader for the next 2 years. The
veteran civil servant expressed confidence the territory will become
more democratic.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Ecuador police
reported the break up an international cocaine ring led by a Lebanese
restaurant owner suspected of raising money for Hezbollah, the Shiite
Muslim group the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization.
(AP, 6/22/05)
2005 Jun 21, President Bharrat
Jagdeo said Guyana will hire 600 new police officers and loosen rules
on wiretapping and asset seizures as part of a strategy to fight
increasing drug trafficking.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Iraq 3 US soldiers
were killed by small-arms fire during combat operations in Ramadi.
(AP, 6/22/05)
2005 Jun 21, In southern Israel a
passenger train plowed into a coal truck and sent three cars tumbling
off the tracks in a sunflower field, killing seven people and injuring
nearly 200.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, A high-level
delegation from North Korea arrived in Seoul for bilateral talks and
was immediately confronted by demonstrators who angered the visitors by
displaying posters of their leader, Kim Jong Il, tied up in ropes.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, The International
Whaling Commission meting in South Korea upheld its nearly
two-decade-old ban on commercial whaling.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Lebanon George
Hawi (67), a former Communist boss and critic of Syria, was killed when
his car blew up on a Beirut street in the 2nd slaying of an anti-Syrian
figure this month.
(AP, 6/24/05)
2005 Jun 21, Nuevo Laredo Mayor
Daniel Pena said that 150 police officers will be fired after failing a
screening process that included background checks and drug testing.
Former Mexican soldiers, turned into drug hit men (Zetas), have taken
the border city to the brink of anarchy, infiltrating local police and
threatening anyone who gets in their way.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met for the first
time since declaring a February truce, but the summit was clouded by
Israel's arrest of 52 Islamic Jihad activists and a missile strike in
the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Manila Cardinal
Jaime Sin (76), an outspoken advocate of democracy who played a key
role in the "people power" revolts that ousted two Philippine
presidents, died.
(AP, 6/21/05)(Econ, 7/2/05, p.77)
2005 Jun 21, A Russian Northern
Fleet submarine launched the world's first solar-sail spacecraft, $4
million Cosmos 1, but the craft failed to reach orbit.
(AFP, 6/22/05)(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A4)
2005 Jun 21, Saudi security forces
killed two suspected terrorists accused of fatally shooting a senior
security official outside his home.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, Taiwan sent two
warships to protect fishermen who have repeatedly been chased by
Japanese patrol boats away from rich fishing grounds near disputed
islands in the East China Sea, a decision likely to raise diplomatic
tensions.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2006 Jun 21, The US Marine Corps
announced that seven Marines and a sailor had been charged with
murdering an Iraqi civilian in April. The sailor and three Marines
later pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2006 Jun 21, Federal prosecutors
charged more than three dozen members of a Chicago street gang with
running a drug ring that sold crack cocaine, marijuana, heroin and the
potentially lethal prescription painkiller fentanyl.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, In Tallahassee,
Florida, corrections officer Ralph Hill, an Air Force veteran, had
smuggled a gun into the prison and opened fire on FBI agents and
Justice Department investigators. Hill (43) and Justice Department
special agent William "Buddy" Sentner (44) were killed, and a prison
employee helping with the arrests was wounded. The federal agents were
trying to arrest Hill and five others indicted in a sex-for-contraband
scandal.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, A nonprofit
think-tank said chief executive officers in the US earned 262 times the
pay of an average worker in 2005, the second-highest level in the 40
years for which there is data.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, In California some
830 firefighters battled a fire in the Los Padres National Forest,
which grew to an estimated 14,000 acres. It was 35% contained.
(SFC, 6/22/06, p.B4)
2006 Jun 21, It was reported that
the pair of moons orbiting Pluto were officially christened Nix and
Hydra last week by the International Astronomical Union, which is in
charge of approving celestial names.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, In Afghanistan 4 US
soldiers were killed in a battle with Taliban insurgents in
northeastern Nuristan province. 17 insurgents were killed after
coalition forces surprised them setting up an ambush site near Tirin
Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province.
(SFC, 6/23/06, p.A13)(AP, 6/24/06)
2006 Jun 21, Australian soldiers
in Baghdad mistakenly opened fire on Iraqi Trade Minister Abdul Falah
al-Sudany's bodyguards, killing one and wounding three people. The
Australian government apologized the next day.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, Scores of students
chanting "Bush Go Home!" marched through Austria's capital to protest a
visit by President Bush for the annual US-EU summit. The summit
produced no breakthroughs but showed Bush moving toward better
cooperation with Europe on Iran, energy, climate change and other
fronts. Bush accused Iran of dragging its feet on a Western incentive
package aimed at getting Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment activity.
(AP, 6/21/06)(WSJ, 6/22/06, p.A4)(AP, 6/21/07)
2006 Jun 21, Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao flew into South Africa on the fifth leg of an African tour where
he is due to sign a nuclear cooperation pact and hold talks on the
thorny question of textile imports from Beijing.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Juan Carlos Robinson
Agramonte (49), a Communist official long held up as an example of
Cuba’s future leadership, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for
influence-peddling.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, East Timorese PM Mari
Alkatiri likely will resign, his spokesman said, as the country's
president and members of the beleaguered leader's own party joined a
chorus of people saying he no longer had their trust.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Indian PM Manmohan
Singh laid the foundation stone for an ambitious $4.2 billion metro
rail scheme to tackle traffic woes in the western economic centre of
Mumbai.
(AFP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Indonesian officials
said heavy rains unleashed floods and landslides on a Sulawesi island,
killing at least 112 people.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said his country will respond in mid-August to the package
of incentives on its nuclear program offered by the West. "We are
studying the proposals. Hopefully, we will present our views about the
package by mid-August."
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Khamis al-Obeidi, one
of Saddam Hussein's main lawyers, was shot to death after he was
abducted from his Baghdad home by men wearing police uniforms. This was
the third killing of a member of the former leader's defense team since
the trial started some eight months ago. An al-Qaida-led insurgent
group said in an Internet statement that it has decided to kill four
Russian Embassy workers, kidnapped on June 3, after a deadline for
meeting its demands passed. A parked car bombing struck a Shiite slum
in Baghdad, killing at least two people and wounding three. Gunmen
abducted about 85 workers and family members at the end of a factory
shift at the al-Nasr plant between Baghdad and Taji. About 30 of the
hostages, mainly women and children, were released shortly after they
were taken captive. A US soldier died south of Baghdad.
(AP, 6/21/06)(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, The Ivory Coast
soccer team, the Elephants, won their 1st ever World Cup match in a
Group C consolation game against Serbia-Montenegro 3-2. They lost their
first 2 games against Argentina and the Netherlands.
(http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/worldcup/team?statsId=615)
2006 Jun 21, Japan agreed to lift
its ban on US beef imports, pending planned inspections of US meat
processing plants.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, In Indian Kashmir 5
Hindu pilgrims were injured in a grenade attack on their bus by
suspected Islamic militants. A senior rebel and a political activist
were killed in separate incidents.
(AFP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, In Nepal a small
plane carrying nine Nepalese crashed into a mountain as it was
approaching an airstrip.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Nigeria’s Pres.
Olusegun removed Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from the finance ministry and
installed her as the foreign minister.
(Econ, 2/28/04,
p.46)(http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/16262.html)
2006 Jun 21, In Karachi, Pakistan,
police arrested Usman Kurd, a Sunni Muslim extremist, allegedly behind
multiple attacks that killed more than 150 people, mainly Shiite
Muslims, in southwestern Pakistan since 1999. 3 Pakistani soldiers were
killed and 3 wounded when a bomb exploded near a military convoy in the
restive tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. The attack came hours after
a Pakistani military helicopter crashed into a dam shortly after
take-off from Bannu, leaving one soldier dead and three missing.
(AP, 6/21/06)(AFP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, The parties behind
Ukraine's Orange Revolution agreed to form a coalition government,
ending three months of tense talks to preserve a pro-Western government
that has sought to shed Russia's influence.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2007 Jun 21, Britain and the
United States signed a treaty to cut red tape on arms deals and improve
the compatibility of military equipment.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Assistant Secretary
of State Christopher Hill, the chief US nuclear envoy, made a rare trip
to North Korea in a surprise bid to accelerate international efforts to
press the communist government to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2007 Jun 21, Vietnam's President
Nguyen Minh Triet heard a barrage of criticism during his historic
visit to Washington, with angry US lawmakers saying ties between the
former enemies will stagnate until Vietnam's dismal human rights record
improves.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, In SF Mayor Newsome
described a plan to reduce the number of trash cans in SF as part of a
larger pledge to reduce litter by 50% over the next 5 years. Some 305
of 5,000 cans have been removed since January due to alleged
inappropriate use by neighbors.
(SFC, 6/27/07, p.B12)
2007 Jun 21, In Kentucky a cable
broke on the superman Tower of Power ride at the Six Flags Kentucky
Freedom park in Louisville and sliced off the feet of a 13-year-old
girl.
(SFC, 6/23/07, p.B2)
2007 Jun 21, Bob Evans (89),
sausage maven, died in Ohio. In 2007 his Bob Evans Farms restaurant
chain, begun in 1953, numbered 579 outlets in 18 states.
(WSJ, 6/23/07, p.A8)(AP, 6/21/08)
2007 Jun 21, In eastern
Afghanistan a land mine explosion killed a NATO soldier and wounded
four more. An official said the UN World Food Program has halted aid
deliveries in Afghanistan's most volatile provinces after 85 of its
trucks were attacked, set ablaze or looted in the last year by Taliban
insurgents and thieves.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Australia's PM John
Howard announced plans for the federal government to take control of 60
aboriginal communities in the Northern Territories. Plans also included
a ban on pornography and alcohol for Aborigines in the northern areas
and tightened control over their welfare benefits to fight child sex
abuse among them.
(AP, 6/21/07)(Econ, 6/30/07, p.50)
2007 Jun 21, In London, England,
Damien Hirst’s “Lullaby spring” sold for $19.1 million, the highest
price paid at auction for a work by a living artist. The work consisted
of a stainless steel cabinet containing 6,136 hand-crafted and painted
pills.
(SFC, 6/23/07, p.E4)
2007 Jun 21, A hitman sent to
Britain to kill Boris Berezovsky (61) was arrested by British security
services as he planned the murder. He was turned over to
immigration services and soon deported.
(www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2096367.ece)
2007 Jun 21, At Stonehenge,
England, Druids, drummers, pagans and partygoers welcomed the sun as it
rose above the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge on the longest day of
the year, the summer solstice.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, China signed an
agreement to cancel Iraqi debt at a ceremony after a meeting between
Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talabani.
State media reported no more brightly dyed hair, flashy jewelry or
smoking in public for China's police while they're in uniform.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, China's special envoy
on Darfur said his country will seriously consider sending troops for a
peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Sudanese region and insisted
Beijing is doing its best to help solve the conflict.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Leaders of the EU's
27 nations gathered to discuss a new EU treaty.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, The European Court of
Human Rights found the Russian authorities responsible for the killings
of four members of a Chechen family in 2003 and ordered Moscow to pay a
relative $114,000.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Talks in Germany
between the US, EU, India and Brazil to save the World Trade
Organization’s (WTO) Doha round of free trade negotiations collapsed.
(Reuters, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, A suicide truck
bomber struck the Sulaiman Bek city hall in a predominantly Sunni area
in northern Iraq, killing at least 17 people, including the mayor, and
wounded 66 in a predominantly Sunni area of northern Iraq. 5 US troops
were killed in a single roadside bombing that also killed four Iraqis
in Baghdad. A rocket-propelled grenade struck a vehicle in northern
Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding three others. US soldiers
detained 18 suspected militants in raids targeting roadside bomb
networks in the Baghdad area.
(AP, 6/21/07)(AP, 6/22/07)
2007 Jun 21, Mario Villanueva, the
former Mexican governor of Quintana Roo, was freed after six years
behind bars and immediately re-arrested on a US extradition request in
which he is accused of helping smuggle 200 tons of cocaine into the
United States.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, In Nigeria police
used tear gas on strikers manning a barricade in Lagos as the second
day of a general strike brought parts of Africa's largest oil producer
to a standstill. Two Nigerian employees of Italian oil company Agip
were killed when troops stormed an oil facility to free hostages in the
Niger delta. A total of 20 people were killed in the operation,
including 15 militants.
(AFP, 6/21/07)(AFP, 6/27/07)
2007 Jun 21, In Pakistan thousands
rallied in support of the suspended chief justice, accusing President
Gen. Pervez Musharraf of attacking the judiciary and burning a US flag
to protest Washington's backing for the general's continued rule.
Pakistani traders announced a reward of 10 million rupees (165,000
dollars) for anyone who beheads Salman Rushdie following Britain's
decision to award the novelist a knighthood. Islamic scholars bestowed
a top honor on Osama bin Laden in response to the British accolade.
(AP, 6/21/07)(AFP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Peru's Congress voted
overwhelmingly to lower the age to 14 for participating in consensual
sex, a move some activists said could expose children to sexual abuse.
(AP, 6/23/07)
2007 Jun 21, Portugal introduced a
new law that allows abortion up to the 10th week of pregnancy, but
imposes a three-day reflection period for women seeking the procedure
and grants doctors the right to opt out on moral grounds.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, In Russia a fire
swept through a nursing home in Western Siberia's Omsk region and
killed at least 10 people.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Thai prosecutors
filed corruption charges against ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra in the
Supreme Court, in the first formal charges lodged against the exiled
former premier. Separatist militants in southern Thailand shot a Muslim
man and then partially severed his head, while the nation's junta
leader was visiting the region. A 54-year-old Buddhist was gunned down
in a drive-by shooting.
(AP, 6/21/07)(AFP, 6/22/07)
2008 Jun 21, In New Jersey Scott
Kalitta died when his Funny Car crashed and burst into flames during
the final round of qualifying for the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals at
Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, The flooding in the
Midwest has brought freight traffic on the upper Mississippi to a
standstill, stranding more than 100 barges loaded with grain, cement,
scrap metal, fertilizer and other products while shippers wait for the
water to drop on the Big Muddy.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, In SF a father and 2
sons were shot and killed in the Excelsior district during a minor
traffic encounter. On Jun 25 Edwin Ramos (21), an alleged member of
MS-13, was arrested in El Sobrante on murder charges.
(SFC, 6/26/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 21, In Afghanistan 5
foreign troops including a Polish national were slain in bombings,
extending a series of daily attacks that have lifted the death toll for
foreign forces this year to more than 100. In separate incidents
attackers detonated bombs and opened fire on vehicles carrying Afghan
troops in Zabul and Kunar provinces, killing five soldiers and wounding
three. Afghan and coalition forces attacked and killed several
militants manning a lookout post in Zabul province. Rockets fired from
Pakistan hit a village in eastern Afghanistan killing a woman and three
children, one of three cross-border attacks around the same late
evening time. A total of 27 rockets were fired from Pakistan to the
Afghan provinces of Paktika and Khost. Afghan troops responded by
firing 19 artillery rounds from Khost and nine rounds from Paktika
which landed in Pakistan.
(AP, 6/21/08)(Reuters, 6/22/08)(AP, 6/26/08)
2008 Jun 21, Sean Langan (43),
British freelance television journalist, was released by kidnappers
along the Afghan-Pakistan border after being held for 3 months. Langan
has spent the last few years making films about Afghanistan, Iraq and
Zimbabwe, and his documentary "Fighting the Taliban" was short-listed
for a Bafta this year.
(AFP, 6/24/08)
2008 Jun 21, Paris Mayor Bernard
Delanoe blamed "organized gangs" for clashes overnight near the Eiffel
Tower between police and high school students celebrating the end of
their final exams. 29 people were arrested, and 22 kept in custody,
after the unrest in the Champ de Mars park.
(AFP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, India's finance
minister warned against "panic" and promised more measures to tame
prices, a day after the country's inflation rate shot to a 13-year high.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, In Iraq two Shiite
brothers, kidnapped just weeks after their family returned to a mainly
Sunni area outside Baqouba, were found shot to death.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, Mexican soldiers
captured at least 10 suspected members of a Tijuana-based drug cartel
in a raid on a child's baptism party in Tijuana. A total of 61 people
were arrested in the sweep, including the band hired to play the party
and three city police officers.
(AP, 6/23/08)
2008 Jun 21, Four French
nationals, all Niger-based employees of the nuclear company Areva, were
abducted by rebels from the Movement for Justice in a part of Niger
known for its uranium mines. They were freed on June 25.
(AP, 6/25/08)
2008 Jun 21, In the Philippines
the Princess of Stars, carrying 862 passengers and crew, ran aground
and capsized 3 km (2 miles) from Sibuyan island in the centre of the
archipelago. Nearly 800 passengers were missing as Typhoon Fengshen
killed scores and left a trail of destruction across the archipelago.
Only 48 survivors of the ferry were found, including 28 rescued the
next day.
(Reuters, 6/22/08)(AP, 6/23/08)(Econ, 6/28/08, p.49)
2008 Jun 21, In Rwanda 20 baby
gorillas were "baptized" in a ceremony seen as a way to raise awareness
of the threats facing the endangered species. The babies were
represented by 20 figurines in the ceremony, attended by Rwanda's first
lady Jeannette Kagame, on the edge of Volcano national park. The
ceremony was the 4th of its kind in Rwanda in as many years.
(AFP, 6/22/08)
2008 Jun 21, Serb authorities
turned over an ex-Bosnian Serb police chief to the Yugoslav war crimes
tribunal in the Netherlands. Stojan Zupljanin was arrested in the town
of Pancevo last week after nine years on the run.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, In Somalia Hassan
Mohamed Ali, head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees organization
in Mogadishu, was abducted from his home on the outskirts of Mogadishu.
He was released in late August. He had suffered bullet wounds in the
neck and knee from the kidnapping, but said that he was generally
treated well during his captivity.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Jun 21, South Korea said it
will resume imports of US beef after American and South Korean
suppliers agreed to block meat from older cattle, aiming to soothe
health concerns that sparked weeks of demonstrations against new
President Lee Myung-bak. Over 10,000 people rallied in central Seoul to
protest the US beef imports.
(AP, 6/22/08)(SSFC, 6/22/08, p.A11)
2008 Jun 21, Sri Lanka launched
air attacks in rebel-held territory in the island's north as ground
troops killed at least four guerrillas.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, A Sudanese official
said Sudan is grounding its national carrier Sudan Airways from June 23
for at least a month for breaking civil aviation rules, mainly over
administration. On June 23 the Civil Aviation Authority agreed to a one
month reprieve.
(AP, 6/21/08)(AFP, 6/24/08)
2009 Jun 21, In Afghanistan a rare
rocket attack on Bagram Air Base, the main US base, killed two US
troops and wounded six other Americans, including two civilians.
(AP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, In northeastern
Central African Republic 10 people were killed in an attack on the town
of Birao. A UFDR spokesman said armed men attacked a base of the former
rebels of the Union of Democratic Forces for the Rally, two weeks after
a similar attack. They were described as "thieves" from the Kara tribe,
an ethnic minority within the UFDR, whose members oppose the leadership
of Zakaria Damane, head of the movement.
(AFP, 6/22/09)
2009 Jun 21, In China the
Danish-Swedish comedy “Original,” about mental illness, won the best
picture at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival. It also took
the best actor award for lead Sverrir Gudnason.
(AFP, 6/22/09)
2009 Jun 21, Haiti held Senate
run-offs elections. Fed up with chronic poverty and unresponsive
leaders many stayed away from the elections, ignoring government
efforts to improve on the paltry voter turnout that undercut the first
round of voting in April.
(AP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, In central India at
least 11 special police personnel were killed and 10 injured in a
landmine blast triggered overnight by suspected Maoist rebels in the
state of Chhattisgarh.
(AFP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, In Iran an eerie calm
settled over the streets of Tehran as state media said authorities had
arrested the daughter and four other relatives of ex-President Hashemi
Rafsanjani, one of Iran's most powerful men. The reports brought the
official death toll for a week of boisterous confrontations to at least
19. Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari, a dual Iranian-Canadian citizen,
was arrested. He was released on bail on Oct 17.
(AP, 6/21/09)(AP, 10/17/09)
2009 Jun 21, It was reported that
handguns, rifles and bullets enter Jamaica from the US stoking one of
the world's highest murder rates.
(AP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, Nigeria's main
militant group said it had attacked a Shell offshore facility, the
third attack against the Anglo-Dutch company's facilities in Nigeria in
one day. The company denied the incident, saying the alleged incident
was part of the attack on two other Shell oil pipelines in southern
Rivers state earlier in the day.
(AFP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, Pakistani forces used
aircraft and artillery as they stepped up an assault aimed at
eliminating Pakistani Taliban commander Baituallah Mehsud.
(Reuters, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, The Portuguese
foreign minister said his country will take in 2-3 Guantanamo Bay
detainees once they are released by the US detention camp.
(AP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, In San Juan, Puerto
Rico, a lone man who robbed $340,000 from a popular hotel and casino by
threatening a supervisor's family.
(AP, 6/22/09)
2009 Jun 21, Ukrainian border
guards seized 250 turtles being smuggled into the country on a train
from Uzbekistan, where they had been hidden and strapped down with tape
to prevent them from moving.
(AFP, 6/22/09)
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