400 Historic Events for June 21
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| 1891 |
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Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura)
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| 1891 |
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Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)
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| 1892 |
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Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature and Destiny of Man)
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| 1892 |
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Hilding Rosenberg, Bosj”kloster Sweden, composer (Babels Torn)
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| 1893 |
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1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
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| 1893 |
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Alois H ba, Czech (opera)composer (Mother)
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| 1894 |
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Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
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| 1895 |
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British Roseberry govt falls
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| 1898 |
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Guam becomes a territory of US
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Pavel Haas, composer
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Gunnar Ek, composer
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| 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
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| 1900 |
Death |
Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69
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| 1902 |
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Wilhelm Maler, composer
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| 1903 |
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Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times)
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| 1903 |
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Louis Krasner, violinist
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy)
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| 1903 |
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Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
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| 1903 |
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Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress (And So They Were Married)
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Alf Sj”berg, Stockholm Sweden, director (Fadern, Oen, Domaren)
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| 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)
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| 1905 |
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Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)
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| 1905 |
Birth |
Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined)
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Luis Maria Millet, composer
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| 1907 |
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13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA
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