June 21 in History

[5stringJeff]

524 - Battle of Vezerone:Burgundy triumphs over the French.
1749 - Halifax Nova Scotia founded.
1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
1859 - Franco-Austrian War: Battle of Solférino is fought. Witnessed by Henri Dunant, the results were the Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross.
1898 - Guam becomes a U.S. Territory.
1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany.
1942 - World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against USA mainland.
1945 - World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends.
1982 - John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.
1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson that flag burning is protected speech under the United States Constitution.

 

[Mr. P]

Man, you should have done June 19...then you could have included this one....

Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, is the name given to emancipation day by African-Americans in Texas. On that day in 1865 Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Order #3 to the people of Galveston. General Order #3 stated "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.

Hey, they only keep it secret for 2 1/2 years...