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Today in History for 15th June 2021

Historical Events

1842 – John C. Frémont sets off from Kansas River on his first expedition of the Oregon Trail with frontierman Kit Carson as his guide
1954 – Great Britain’s 2 biggest steel factories nationalized
1963 – “Sukiyaki” sung by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto, hits #1
1965 – South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products
1982 – Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
1994 – Disney’s animated musical film “The Lion King” opens in theaters with $42 million

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Famous Birthdays

1886 – Charles Wood, Irish composer of church music, born in Armagh, United Kingdom (d. 1926)
1894 – Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (Oklahoma!), born in Kansas City, Kansas (d. 1981)
1920 – George Ernest Leslie, Scottish trade union official, born in Leith, Scotland (d. 1996)
1920 – Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (Burnt by the Sun), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2008)
1927 – Hugo Pratt, Italian graphic artist, born in Rimini, Italy (d. 1995)
1971 – Jake Busey, American actor

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Famous Deaths

923 – Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle
1521 – Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
1679 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
1962 – Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist and teacher, dies at 84
1995 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter, dies at 95
2001 – Julius Juzeliūnas, Lithuanian composer and organist (The Game), dies at 85

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Famous Deaths for 14th June 2021

1703 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer, dies at 77
1952 – John Kirby [Kirk], American jazz double-bassist and tuba player (Benny Goodman; “Undecided”), dies at 43
1969 – Wynonie Harris, American rhythm and blues singer, dies of cancer at 53
1994 – Lionel Grigson, British jazz musician, dies at 52
1996 – Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73
2000 – Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer, dies at 88
2002 – June Jordan, Caribbean-American playwright and poet (His Own Where), dies at 65
2005 – Mimi Parent, Canadian painter, dies at 80
2007 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-81) and 9th President of Austria (1986-92), dies at 88
2012 – Dumitru Capoianu, Romanian conductor and classical and film composer (The Little Man), dies at 82

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Historical Events for 14th June 2021

1926 – French Women’s Tennis Championships: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary Kendall Browne 6-1, 6-0
1931 – Reinhard Heydrich’s first meeting with Heinrich Himmler
1936 – Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens in Germany
1951 – 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1953 – Elvis Presley graduates from L. C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee
1967 – Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
1992 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC of Michigan: Dave Stockton wins first of 3 Champions Tour major titles by 1 stroke from J.C. Snead and lee Trevino
1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg is nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton
2018 – 21st FIFA World Cup opens at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia with British singer Robbie Williams and Russian soprano Aida Garifullina performing
2019 – Swiss women hold a national strike over the country’s slow pace towards equality

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Today in History for 14th June 2021

Historical Events

1807 – Emperor Napoleon I’s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending War of the Fourth Coalition
1916 – Democratic Convention convenes in St Louis; Woodrow Wilson campaigns on the slogan “he kept out of the war”
1936 – Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens in Germany
1965 – Beatles release album “Beatles VI”
1991 – Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
2019 – Petition to create world’s first “time free zone” on Sommaroy island which has complete daylight for 2 months, delivered to the Norwegian parliament

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Famous Birthdays

1657 – Cornelis Cruys [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian Dutch admiral, commanded the Russian Baltic fleet, born in Stravanger, Denmark-Norway (d. 1727)
1844 – Édouard Naville, Swiss Egyptologist (Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1926)
1964 – Jamie Dukes, American NFL center (Arizona Cardinals), born in Schenectady, New York
1969 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player (Golden Slam 1988, 22 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Mannheim, Germany
1986 – Jonathan Clare, English cricketer
1989 – Courtney Halverson, American actress

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Famous Deaths

1544 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, dies at 55
1727 – Cornelis Cruys, Norwegian/Dutch admiral, dies at 70
1926 – Mary Cassatt, American impressionist painter (Woman Bathing), dies at 82
1946 – John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor and father of the television, dies of a stroke at 57
1994 – Denys Hay, British historian, dies at 78
2002 – June Jordan, Caribbean-American playwright and poet (His Own Where), dies at 65

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Famous Deaths for 13th June 2021

1550 – Johann Spangenberg, German theologist and composer, dies at 66
1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
1665 – Jacob van Wassenaer [Foggy Obdam], lt-admiral, dies in battle at 55
1905 – Tippo-Tip [Hamed ben Mohammed], Zanzibar merchant, dies at about 67
1913 – Jonathan Hutchinson, English surgeon and scientist, dies at 84
1954 – Nikolai Obukhov, Russian composer, dies at 62
1956 – Reginald Goss-Custard, British organist, arranger and composer (Chelsea Fayre), dies at 79
1961 – Ben A. Jones, American horse trainer (US Champion trainer by earnings 1941, 43, 44, 52; Kentucky Derby x 6 including Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 78
2002 – Ralph Shapey, American composer (Fantasy, Rituals), dies at 81
2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)

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Historical Events for 13th June 2021

1325 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years)
1866 – US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
1886 – Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, British Columbia
1957 – Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1965 – Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai ends in a Viet Cong victory
1986 – Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta’s triple-play
1988 – 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRs, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
1988 – George Harrison releases “This is Love”
1990 – Nelson and Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1995 – “Jagged Little Pill” 3rd studio album by Alanis Morissette is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1996)

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Today in History for 13th June 2021

Historical Events

1727 – Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1915 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American based Norwegian Molla Bjurstedt beats Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 for her first of 4 straight US singes titles
1953 – Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 and 7-44) v Australia
1960 – “Alley-Oop” by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
1987 – Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people

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Famous Birthdays

1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English novelist (The Nine Tailors), born in Oxford, England (d. 1957)
1929 – Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer (Star Wars, E.T.), born in Gary, Indiana (d. 2012)
1935 – Jeanne-Claude, French artist (Running Fence), born in Casablanca, French Morocco
1951 – Howard Leese, American guitarist, record producer, and musical director (Heart), born in Hollywood, California
1962 – Ally Sheedy [Alexandria], American actress (Wargames, Breakfast Club), born in NYC, New York
1964 – Jennifer Gillom, American WNBA center and forward (Phoenix Mercury/Olympic gold 1988), born in Abbeville, Mississippi

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Famous Deaths

1899 – [Robert] Lawson Tait, Scottish-born pioneering surgeon performed first salpingectomy for ectopic pregnancy, dies at 54
1995 – David Parry, guitarist, dies 53
1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian 90m ski jumper (Olympic gold 1932, 36), dies at 86
2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2016 – Ofelya Hambardzumyan, Armenian folk singer, dies at 91
2017 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian model and actress credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones, dies of complications of hepatitis C. at 75

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Famous Deaths for 12th June 2021

918 – Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
1435 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
1567 – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1616 – Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies
1778 – Philip Livingston, American businessman and politician (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 62
1788 – Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65
1850 – Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, Swiss-Dutch army leader, dies at 77
1966 – Thomas Chalmers, American opera singer, actor, and filmmaker (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
1972 – Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
1980 – Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)

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Historical Events for 12th June 2021

1552 – Land guardians of Netherlands attack Verdun
1714 – Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty
1889 – 88 people are killed in the Armagh rail disaster, Ireland.
1913 – “Dachshund” by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1954 – Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” is originally released
1965 – “I Had a BaIl” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 performances
1987 – Central African Republic ex-emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa sentenced to death
1994 – -17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain
1996 – Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women and Asians
2004 – A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries

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Today in History for 12th June 2021

Historical Events

1775 – 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br)
1875 – 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42.25
1944 – Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery’s HQ in Chateau de Creully
1944 – British 12th airborne battalion and the 13th and 18th Hussars attack and capture Bréville
1950 – 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
1963 – “Cleopatra” directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton premieres in NYC, then most expensive film ever made

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Famous Birthdays

1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (Guldinus theorem), born in Mels, Switzerland (d. 1643)
1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st US President (R, 1989-93) and 43rd US Vice President (R, 1981-89), born in Milton, Massachusetts
1957 – Timothy Busfield, American actor (30 Something, West Wing), born in East Lansing, Michigan
1967 – Icíar Bollaín, Spanish actress, director and screenwriter, born in Madrid
1968 – Scott Aldred, American MLB pitcher (Minnesota Twins), born in Flint, Michigan
1992 – Ryan Malgarini, American actor (Freaky Friday), born in Renton, Washington

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Famous Deaths

1616 – Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies
1761 – Meinrad Spiess, German composer, dies at 77
1789 – Jean E Liotard [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies
1990 – Terence O’Neill, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (Ulster Unionist Party: 1963-69), dies of cancer at 75
1998 – Theresa Merritt [Hines], American singer and actress (The Wiz, That’s My Mama), dies of skin cancer at 75
2015 – Monica Lewis, American jazz singer and film actress (Box Office, Affair with a Stranger), dies at 93

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