FRIDAY, June 21, 2024

1498-Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian

1879-F. W. Woolworth opens first store (failed almost immediately)

1919-Germans scuttle their own fleet

1939-Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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

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

1975-Soyuz 19 returns to Earth

1977-Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison

1977-Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's sixth PM

1982-Washington D..C jury finds John Hinckley Jr. innocent by insanity

1986-President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments

1987-Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB

1990-25,000 die in Iranian Earthquake

1990-NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham