TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Thursday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2018. There are 193 days left in the year.

1307 Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.

1529 French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.

1734 In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie- Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.

1791 King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.

1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.

1898 The United States captures Guam from Spain.

1919 Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.

1940 World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.

1942 World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.

1952 The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

1957 Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first female Cabinet Minister.

1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.

1964 Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

1970 Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.

1973 In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U. S. law.

1982 John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U. S. President Ronald Reagan.

1989 The U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that American flag- burning was a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.

2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen in the terror attack.

2006 Pluto’s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra. 2009 Greenland assumes self- rule.