Updated June 20, 2012, 2:28 pm
On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years.
Go to article »On June 21, 1905, Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existientialist philosopher and writer, was born. Following his death on April 15, 1980, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine. 1905 Philosopher, author and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris. 1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Paul VI. 1964 Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. 1964 Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game in a 6-0 victory over the New York Mets. 1973 The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards. 1977 Menachem Begin became Israel’s sixth prime minister. 1982 John Hinckley Jr. was found innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three others. 1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele. 1989 The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment. 1997 The Women’s National Basketball Association made its debut. 2005 Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., 41 years to the day earlier. 2010 Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to charges of plotting a failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.) Current Birthdays
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Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, turns 30 years old today.
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Actress Juliette Lewis turns 39 years old today.
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1933 Bernie Kopell, Actor (“The Love Boat”), turns 79 1940 Mariette Hartley, Actress, turns 72 1941 Joe Flaherty, Comedian (“SCTV”), turns 71 1944 Ray Davies, Rock singer, musician (The Kinks), turns 68 1947 Meredith Baxter, Actress (“Family Ties”), turns 65 1947 Michael Gross, Actor (“Family Ties”), turns 65 1950 Joey Kramer, Rock musician (Aerosmith), turns 62 1951 Nils Lofgren, Rock musician (The E Street Band), turns 61 1957 Berke Breathed, Cartoonist (“Bloom County”), turns 55 1959 Kathy Mattea, Country singer, turns 53 1964 Doug Savant, Actor (“Desperate Housewives”), turns 48 1965 Larry Wachowski, Writer, director (“Matrix” movies), turns 47 1972 Allison Moorer, Country singer, turns 40 1985 Kris Allen, Singer (“American Idol”), turns 27 1997 Rebecca Black, Singer, turns 15
Historic Birthdays
Jean-Paul Sartre 6/21/1905 – 4/15/1980 French novelist and playwright.Go to obituary »
84 Increase Mather 6/21/1639 – 8/23/1723
American minister, author and educator62 Moses Hess 6/21/1812 – 4/6/1875
German journalist; espoused socialism and Zionism72 Sir Richard Wallace 6/21/1818 – 7/20/1890
English art collector and philanthropist55 Joseph Hayne Rainey 6/21/1832 – 8/2/1887
American politician; first African-American in the U.S. House of Representatives (1870-9)62 Jose Graca Aranha 6/21/1868 – 1/26/1931
Brazilian novelist and diplomat88 Rockwell Kent 6/21/1882 – 3/13/1971
American painter and illustrator87 Pier Luigi Nervi 6/21/1891 – 1/9/1979
Italian engineer and architect78 Reinhold Niebuhr 6/21/1892 – 6/1/1971
American pastor and theologian77 Mary McCarthy 6/21/1912 – 10/25/1989
American novelist and critic43 Judy Holliday 6/21/1921 – 6/7/1965
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