What happend on 21st June

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22.06
1964

Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

1957

Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister

1947

A seaman named Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island, United States. The next morning Dahl reported the first modern MIB encounter.

1945

World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends.

1942

World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the U.S. mainland.

1942

World War II: Tobruk falls to German forces.

1940

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

1940

World War II: France surrenders to Germany.

1939

The New York Yankees U.S. baseball team announce Lou Gehrig's retirement.

1919

Admiral Ludvig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War.