Wednesday, June 21, 2000
History today -- 8:16 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1788: New Hampshire became the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the new Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land.
- 1813: At Vitoria, Spain a massive allied British, Portuguese, and Spanish force under British General Arthur Wellesley defeated the French under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean Jourdan, effectively ending the Peninsula War.
- 1916: The controversial U.S. military expedition against Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa brought the U.S. and Mexico closer to war when Mexican government troops attacked U.S. Brigadier General John J. Pershing's force at Carrizal, Mexico.
- 1942: General Erwin Rommel turns his assault on the British-Allied garrison at Tobruk, Libya, into victory, as his panzer division occupies the North African port.
- 1948: A tiny experimental computer, lacking a keyboard or printer, successfully tested a memory system developed at Manchester University in England. The system, based on a cathode-ray tube, could store programs, whereas previous electronic computers had to be rewired to execute each new type of problem.
- 1963: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI.
- 1985: Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
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