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History - 6/21
Merwan Marker
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Join date: 28 Jan 2004
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06-21-2004 10:09
History - 6/21

Some of the things that happened - On This Day in the Past -

(Today is the Summer solstice in Northern hemisphere & the Winter solstice in Southern hemisphere)


1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany.

1940 - First successful west to east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver British Columbia.

1964 - Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Cheney and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan.


Births -

1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1964 (d. 1980)


Deaths -

1964 - Andrew Goodman, civil rights activist

1964 - James Cheney, civil rights activist

1964 - Mickey Schwerner, civil rights activist

2001 - Carroll O'Connor, actor, age 76

2001 - John Lee Hooker, blues musician, age 83
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Bam Perkins
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Join date: 9 Dec 2003
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06-21-2004 10:23
Oh lets not forget the first privately funded manned space launch was today.
James Miller
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Join date: 9 Jan 2003
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06-21-2004 11:50
Yeah, but, that's not History, really...it just happened a few hours ago. :P
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