Daily Calendar for Monday, June 21, 2010

Events

• John Archer became first to receive Bachelor of Medicine degree in U.S. – 1768
• New Hampshire ratified the Constitution and was admitted as the 9th state – 1788
• Cyrus H. McCormick was awarded a U.S. patent for a reaper – 1834
• The ferris wheel debuted at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago – 1893
• France surrendered to Germany (WW II) – 1940
• Richard M. Nixon married Thelma Catherine “Pat” Ryan – 1940
• Sesquicentennial U.S. postage stamp “The Old Man of the Mountains” debuted – 1955
• First 999 emergency phone service in North America began, in Winnipeg, Manitoba – 1959
• The original Walt Disney movie The Parent Trap debuted – 1961
• Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect baseball game – 1964
• The first amendment to Canada’s Constitution Act of 1982, which guaranteed the constitutional rights of Indians and Inuits, took effect – 1984
• SpaceShipOne left the Earth behind and made its indelible entry in the history books as the first private spacecraft to carry humans into space – 2004
• A 25-foot-tall, 17.5-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid – 2005
• Tallest structure built with LEGOS (114 feet 11 inches) set Guinness World Record, Milan, Italy – 2015