Today is Friday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2013. There are 193 days left in the year.
1633 ― Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to “abjure, curse and detest” his Copernican heliocentric views
1805 ― Great Stoneface Mountain found in N.H.
1869 ― The opera “Die Meistersinger” is produced (Munich)
1913 ― Tiny Broadwick becomes first woman to parachute from an airplane
1945 ― Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to U.S. during WW II
1969 ― First reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)
1969 ― Zager & Evans release “In the Year 2525”
1970 ― Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy of soccer championship
1971 ― 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea., Lo.
1989 ― Supreme Court rules ok to burn U.S. flag as a political expression