06-20-2011, 07:39 PM
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June 21st
1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1905 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964.
1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer.
1919 ~ Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
1945 ~ The battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.
1964 ~ Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.
1984 ~ Birthday of Alicia Alighatti, Porn Actress.
1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the Constitution.
2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.
2005 ~ Death of Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila.
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