Daily Calendar for Monday, June 21, 2010
Died
- King Edward III of England β
- Carroll O'Connor (actor) β
- Kermit Love (costume designer) β
- Charles Krauthammer (Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist) β
Born
- Charles Bowers Momsen (American vice admiral, inventor) β
- Jean-Paul Sartre (writer & philosopher) β
- Jane Russell (actress) β
- Judy Holliday (actress) β
- Maureen Stapleton (actress) β
- Doug Savant (actor) β
- Chris Pratt (actor) β
- Prince William of Wales (oldest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana) β
Events
- John Archer became first to receive Bachelor of Medicine degree in U.S.β
- New Hampshire ratified the Constitution and was admitted as the 9th stateβ
- Cyrus H. McCormick was awarded a U.S. patent for a reaperβ
- The ferris wheel debuted at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicagoβ
- France surrendered to Germany (WW II)β
- Richard M. Nixon married Thelma Catherine βPatβ Ryanβ
- Sesquicentennial U.S. postage stamp βThe Old Man of the Mountainsβ debutedβ
- First 999 emergency phone service in North America began, in Winnipeg, Manitobaβ
- The original Walt Disney movie The Parent Trap debutedβ
- Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect baseball gameβ
- The first amendment to Canada’s Constitution Act of 1982, which guaranteed the constitutional rights of Indians and Inuits, took effectβ
- SpaceShipOne left the Earth behind and made its indelible entry in the history books as the first private spacecraft to carry humans into spaceβ
- A 25-foot-tall, 17.5-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluidβ
- Tallest structure built with LEGOS (114 feet 11 inches) set Guinness World Record, Milan, Italyβ
Weather
- The Apalachicola-Tallahassee area of Florida was hit by an early-season hurricaneβ
- Fifteen inches of snow was reported at the summit of Mount Evans in Coloradoβ
- Typhoon Fengshen, with winds of up to 121 miles per hour, struck the central and northern Philippinesβ
- Washington, D.C., had a record high temperature of 99 degrees Fahrenheitβ
- Boston, Massachusetts, had a record high temperature of 96 degrees Fahrenheitβ
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