On This Day:
Saturday June 21, 2014 This is the 172nd day of the year, with 193 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: domestic cats There are more than 100 recognized breeds of domestic cats, distinguished mainly by their body shape. Domestic cats are related to wild ones, such as lions and tigers, and are able to fend well for themselves unless they have been declawed. They are excellent hunters, and their eyes, ears, nose, and whiskers are adapted for hunting at night. Cats were domesticated about 4000 years ago to keep people company and to kill pests.
Holidays Feast day of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Leufred, St. Mewan, St. Engelmund, St. John Rigby, St. Eusebius of Samosata, and St. Leutfridus.
Greenland: National Day.
Events 1788 - The Constitution of the United States of America went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
1887 - Britain celebrated the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
1945 - Japanese troops surrendered the Pacific Island of Okinawa to the United States after one of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War II.
1977 - Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister.
1982 - A jury in Washington, D.C. found John Hinckley, Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.
1989 - The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
2004 - Connecticut governor John Rowland announced resignation (effective July 1) as he is subject of federal corruption investigation and an impeachment inquiry.
2004 - Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne completed the first privately funded human spaceflight.
2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
Births 1731 - Martha Washington first First Lady of the United States of America.
1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian.
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher, writer.
1944 - Ray Davies, English musician.
1955 - Tim Bray, Canadian software developer, writer, and major contributor to open Web standards.
1957 - Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist, best known for Bloom County.
1982 - Prince William of Britain's royal family.
Deaths 1631 - John Smith, Virginian colonist.
2001 - John Lee Hooker, American blues musician.
2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor, most famous for his portrayal of the character Archie Bunker in the television sitcom All in the Family.
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