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06/21/1839
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John Decatur Barry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
Type: Birth
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06/21/1839
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Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician
Type: Birth
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06/21/1839
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Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1844
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Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1849
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Battle at Wagh„usel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
Type: Event
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06/21/1851
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Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st boy scout troop
Type: Birth
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06/21/1858
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Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
Type: Event
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06/21/1859
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Henry O Tanner, artist
Type: Birth
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06/21/1862
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Johannes Schlaf, writer
Type: Birth
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06/21/1862
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Henry Holden Huss, composer
Type: Birth
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06/21/1863
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Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities
Type: Event
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06/21/1865
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Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
Type: Birth
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06/21/1868
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Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich
Type: Event
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06/21/1873
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Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea and Jungle)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1874
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Anders J ¸ngstr”m, Swedish astronomer/physicist (¸-unit), dies at 59
Type: Death
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06/21/1876
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79
Type: Death
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06/21/1876
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Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1879
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F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
Type: Event
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06/21/1879
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Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1882
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Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1883
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Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1884
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Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies
Type: Death
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06/21/1884
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Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa
Type: Birth
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06/21/1887
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Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
Type: Event
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06/21/1887
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Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67
Type: Death
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06/21/1891
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Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1891
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Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1892
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Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature and Destiny of Man)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1892
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Hilding Rosenberg, Bosj”kloster Sweden, composer (Babels Torn)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1893
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1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
Type: Event
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06/21/1893
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Alois H ba, Czech (opera)composer (Mother)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1894
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Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
Type: Event
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06/21/1895
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British Roseberry govt falls
Type: Event
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06/21/1898
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Guam becomes a territory of US
Type: Event
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06/21/1899
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Pavel Haas, composer
Type: Birth
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06/21/1900
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Gunnar Ek, composer
Type: Birth
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06/21/1900
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Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
Type: Event
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06/21/1900
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Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69
Type: Death
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06/21/1902
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Wilhelm Maler, composer
Type: Birth
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06/21/1903
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Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1903
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Louis Krasner, violinist
Type: Birth
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06/21/1903
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Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1903
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Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
Type: Event
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06/21/1903
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Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress (And So They Were Married)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1903
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Alf Sj”berg, Stockholm Sweden, director (Fadern, Oen, Domaren)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1904
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Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)
Type: Event
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06/21/1905
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Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1905
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Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined)
Type: Birth
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06/21/1906
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Luis Maria Millet, composer
Type: Birth
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06/21/1907
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13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA
Type: Event
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