Once Upon A Time – June 21 – 1879 – Frank W. Woolworth Opens 1st Successful F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store

1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it

1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War)

1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)

1990 7.7 Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran; killing about 50,000

1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1966 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, directed by Mike Nichols and based on the 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1967)

TODAY IN MUSIC

1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical “Evita”, starring Elaine Page, premieres at the Prince Edward Theatre, London

TODAY IN SPORT

1970 FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Brazil and Pelé become first team and player to win World Cup 3 times, beating Italy, 4-1 in front of 107,412

1834 American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine

1879 Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful “F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store” on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

FAMOUS WEDDINGS

1810 American army officer and future US President Zachary Taylor (25) weds Margaret Smith (21) near Louisville, Kentucky, at the bride’s sister’s home

1924 Inventor Robert H. Goddard (41) weds secretary Esther Christine Kisk (23) at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Worcester

1930 “Titanic” actress Gloria Stuart (19) weds sculptor Blair Gordon Newell


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