Almanac - Tuesday 6/21/22

1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.

1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.

1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

1973 – In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.

1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.

1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

1989 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.

2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

2005 – Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).

2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.

…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…

1732 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1791)

1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator (d. 2003)

1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (d. 1980)

1912 – Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (d. 1989)

1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor

1933 – Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian

1944 – Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1947 – Wade Phillips, American football coach

1951 – Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)

1953 – Augustus Pablo, Jamaican producer and musician (d. 1999)

1957 – Berkeley Breathed, American author and illustrator

1959 – Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1966 – Gretchen Carlson, American model and TV journalist, Miss America 1989

1982 – Jussie Smollett, American actor and singer

1983 – Edward Snowden, American activist and academic

2011 – Lil Bub, American celebrity cat (d. 2019)

Almanac - Tuesday 6/21/22

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