June 21 - PBJ

PB&J

This Day In History

1749

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

1788

New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.

1854

The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.

1900

Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.

1940

The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1948

Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.

2004

SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve manned spaceflight.

2006

Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.

Famous Birthdays

1639

Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)

1791

Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)

1850

Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)

1858

Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)

1882

Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1971)

1896

Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)

1903

Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)

1905

Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (declined) (d. 1980)

1921

Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)

1932

Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer

1957

Berkeley Breathed, American cartoonist and author

1959

Kathy Mattea, American country singer and songwriter