400 Historic Events for June 21
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| 1684 |
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King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
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| 1688 |
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Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock)
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| 1730 |
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Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist
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| 1732 |
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Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
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| 1732 |
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Martha Washington, 1st, 1st lady (1789-97)
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| 1740 |
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Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief)
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| 1749 |
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Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth
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| 1763 |
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Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher
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| 1768 |
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1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)
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| 1774 |
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Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)
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| 1781 |
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Sim‚on-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling)
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| 1788 |
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Vizille France population demands local parliament
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| 1788 |
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US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify
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| 1790 |
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Wilhelm Speyer, composer
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| 1791 |
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Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne
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| 1792 |
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Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
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| 1805 |
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Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
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| 1805 |
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Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
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| 1817 |
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James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
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| 1818 |
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Joseph Abel Haskin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
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| 1818 |
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Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
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| 1821 |
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African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
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| 1823 |
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Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
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| 1834 |
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Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
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| 1839 |
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Machado de Assis, writer
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