This Day in History

June 21st in History

SpaceShipOne reaches space! In other news, three civil rights workers are murdered in Mississippi and the Molly Maguires are hanged. Jean-Paul Sartre and Jane Russell are born; Machiavelli, Santa Anna, and Rimsky-Korsakov die. Happy International Yoga Day!

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Quote of the Day

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian born June 21, 1892