
06-21-2006, 05:31 AM
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June 21st
1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1749 ~ Halifax, Nova Scotia founded.
1781 ~ Birthday of Siméon-Denis Poisson, Mathematician & Physicist.
1905 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964.
1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer.
1919 ~ Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
1965 ~ The Byrds released their debut album “Mr. Tambourine Man”.
1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the Constitution.
2001 ~ Death of Carroll O'Connor, American Actor.
2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.
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