TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

Today is Tuesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2011. There are 193 days left in the year.

1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to ``abjure, curse and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views

1788 ― U.S. Constitution goes into effect as N.H. is ninth to ratify

1869 ― The opera ``Die Meistersinger" is produced (Munich)

1919 ― Germans scuttle their own fleet

1945 ― Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to U.S. during WW II

1948 ― First stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I

1969 ― Zager & Evans release ``In the Year 2525"

1970 ― Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy, soccer championship

1981 ― 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000

1989 ― Supreme Court rules Okays to burn U.S. flag as a political expression