HOT TOPICS

Published date21 June 2021
Publication titleBay of Plenty Times
2Who wrote Ivanhoe in 1819?

3Jackie Gleason starred as downtrodden NYC bus driver Ralph Kramden on what classic 1950s sitcom?

4What type of creature is a Milbert’s Tortoiseshell, a Blue Morpho, and a White Admiral?

5What country is bordered by the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea?

History

1788 The US Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it.

1942 German forces led by Colonel General Erwin Rommel capture the Libyan city of Tobruk during World War II.

1954 The American Cancer Society presents a study to the American Medical Association which finds men who regularly smoke cigarettes die at a considerably higher rate than non-smokers.

1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is chosen during a conclave of his fellow cardinals to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope takes the name Paul VI.

1964 Civil rights workers Michael H Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney are slain in Philadelphia, Mississippi; their bodies are 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, is found guilty of manslaughter; he is sentenced to 60 years in prison, where he dies in January 2018.)

1977 Menachem Begin becomes Israel’s sixth prime minister.

1982 A jury in Washington DC finds John Hinckley...

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