THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2021. There are 193 days left in the year.

IN THE NATION

1964: Civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were slain in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. (Forty-one years later on this date in 2005, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter; he was sentenced to 60 years in prison, where he died in January 2018.)

1989: A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.

IN THE WORLD

1942: German forces led by Generaloberst (Colonel General) Erwin Rommel captured the Libyan city of Tobruk during World War II. (Rommel was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal; Tobruk was retaken by the Allies in November 1942.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Actor Bernie Kopell is 88. Actor Mariette Hartley is 81. Comedian Joe Flaherty is 80. Actor Meredith Baxter is 74. Actor Michael Gross (Baxter’s costar on the sitcom “Family Ties”) is 74. Rock musician Nils Lofgren is 70. Cartoonist Berke Breathed is 64. Actor Chris Pratt is 42. Prince William is 39. Pop singer Kris Allen (TV: “American Idol”) is 36. Pop/rock singer Lana Del Rey is 36.