June 21st in History
June 21st
On 21st June 1234, the Peace of Myddle was agreed between Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (Llywelyn Fawr) and King Henry III of England. Myddle is a small village in Shropshire, about 10 miles north of Shrewsbury..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myddle
On or about 21st June 1404, Owain Glyndwr held his first Parliament, at Machynlleth at which, he was Crowned Prince of Wales.
1529 Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon, speaks against her marriage's annulment at the Blackfriars Legatine Court.
1547 Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed.
The Taff Vale Railway Company was created on 21st June 1836 by an Act of Parliament that also capped the speed of trains to 12 mph.
The first stretch of the line to be opened was that from Cardiff to Navigation House (later named Abercynon) on October 9th 1840, with the line extended to Merthyr on April 12th 1841. The chief engineer was Brunel and initially he used a narrow gauge, single line track, because of the narrowness of the Taff valley and trains were only able to pass at stations. The line, however, was upgraded to a double line in 1857. One of the notable features of the line is the 110-foot span, skew stone arch viaduct at Pontypridd, which is still in use today.
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes in Worcester, Massachusetts .
1854 First Victoria Cross won during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands during the Crimean War.
1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his first successful "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1913 Tiny Broadwick is the first woman to parachute from an airplane.
1948 Columbia Records unveils the 33-1/3 rpm LP phonograph record, invented by Peter Carl Goldmark, allowing up to 20 minutes per side (available in 10 and 12-inch diameters) at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC; over the next decade, its popularity and profitability push the 78 rpm record out of production .
1975 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Lord's: West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win inaugural final; Player of the match: Clive Lloyd (WI) 102 (85)
1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert in McCrea, Louisiana; performers included Chuck Berry; Stephen Stills; WAR; John Sebastian; and Delaney and Bonnie.
1975 British rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow.
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On 21st June 1234, the Peace of Myddle was agreed between Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (Llywelyn Fawr) and King Henry III of England. Myddle is a small village in Shropshire, about 10 miles north of Shrewsbury..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myddle
On or about 21st June 1404, Owain Glyndwr held his first Parliament, at Machynlleth at which, he was Crowned Prince of Wales.
1529 Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon, speaks against her marriage's annulment at the Blackfriars Legatine Court.
1547 Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed.
The Taff Vale Railway Company was created on 21st June 1836 by an Act of Parliament that also capped the speed of trains to 12 mph.
The first stretch of the line to be opened was that from Cardiff to Navigation House (later named Abercynon) on October 9th 1840, with the line extended to Merthyr on April 12th 1841. The chief engineer was Brunel and initially he used a narrow gauge, single line track, because of the narrowness of the Taff valley and trains were only able to pass at stations. The line, however, was upgraded to a double line in 1857. One of the notable features of the line is the 110-foot span, skew stone arch viaduct at Pontypridd, which is still in use today.
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes in Worcester, Massachusetts .
1854 First Victoria Cross won during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands during the Crimean War.
1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his first successful "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1913 Tiny Broadwick is the first woman to parachute from an airplane.
1948 Columbia Records unveils the 33-1/3 rpm LP phonograph record, invented by Peter Carl Goldmark, allowing up to 20 minutes per side (available in 10 and 12-inch diameters) at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC; over the next decade, its popularity and profitability push the 78 rpm record out of production .
1975 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Lord's: West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win inaugural final; Player of the match: Clive Lloyd (WI) 102 (85)
1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert in McCrea, Louisiana; performers included Chuck Berry; Stephen Stills; WAR; John Sebastian; and Delaney and Bonnie.
1975 British rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow.
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