Today in History: June 21, US Constitution becomes law
This day is Saturday June the nd day of There are days left in the year The present day in history On June the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the required ninth state to ratify it Also on this date In Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his mechanical reaper Related Articles Billions of login credentials have been leaked online Cybernews researchers say The summer solstice is here What to know about the longest day of the year In contemporary times in History June Muhammad Ali convicted of draft evasion ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businesses Watch SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas explodes no injuries disclosed In the first Ferris wheel opened to the populace as part of the Chicago World s Fair In an Imperial Japanese submarine fired shells at Fort Stevens on the Oregon coast but caused little damage In scientists of the American Cancer Society presented a analysis to a meeting of the American Curative Association in San Francisco which uncovered that men who regularly smoked cigarettes died particularly from lung cancer at a considerably higher rate than non-smokers In civil rights activists James Chaney Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba County Mississippi their bodies were located buried in an earthen dam six weeks later Forty-one years later on this date in Edgar Ray Killen an -year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was unveiled guilty of manslaughter in their deaths he was sentenced to years in prison where he died in January In a jury in Washington D C determined John Hinckley Jr not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan Press Secretary James Brady Washington D C police office Thomas Delahanty and Secret Function agent Tim McCarthy In a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled in Texas v Johnson that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment In the WNBA made its debut as the New York Liberty defeated the host Los Angeles Sparks - In the aircraft SpaceShipOne made the first privately funded human spaceflight In Faisal Shahzad a Pakistan-born U S citizen pleaded guilty to charges of plotting a failed car bombing in New York s Times Square Shahzad was later sentenced to life in prison Nowadays s Birthdays Composer Lalo Schifrin is Musician Ray Davies The Kinks is Actor Meredith Baxter is Nobel peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi is Actor Michael Gross is Author Ian McEwan is Musician Nils Lofgren is Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is Country musician Kathy Mattea is Filmmaker Lana Wachowski is Rapper-DJ-producer Pete Rock is Actor Juliette Lewis is Actor Chris Pratt is Rock singer Brandon Flowers The Killers is Britain s Prince William is Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey is Golfer Scottie Scheffler is
