The 172nd day of 2025, Saturday, June 21, is today. The year has 193 days remaining.
The United States Constitution became operative on June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth state required to ratify it.
Cyrus Hall McCormick’s mechanical reaper was patented in 1834.
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The first Ferris wheel debuted to the public in 1893 as a feature of the World’s Fair in Chicago.
Although it did little damage, an Imperial Japanese submarine fired shells at Fort Stevens on the Oregon coast in 1942.
Men who frequently smoked cigarettes died at a far higher rate than non-smokers, especially from lung cancer, according to a report given by American Cancer Society experts to the American Medical Association convention in San Francisco in 1954.
The bodies of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were discovered buried in an earthen dam six weeks after they were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964. (Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was convicted guilty of manslaughter in their deaths 41 years later on this date in 2005. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison and passed away in January 2018.)
John Hinckley Jr. was found not guilty by reason of insanity by a Washington, D.C. jury in 1982 for the shootings of Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, President Ronald Reagan, Press Secretary James Brady, and Washington, D.C. police officer Thomas Delahanty.
In the case of Texas v. Johnson, decided in 1989, the heavily divided Supreme Court held that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.
The New York Liberty defeated the host Los Angeles Sparks 67-57 in 1997, marking the WNBA’s debut.
The first privately funded human spaceflight was accomplished in 2004 by the aircraft SpaceShipOne.
U.S. citizen Faisal Shahzad, who was born in Pakistan, entered a guilty plea to charges of planning a failed vehicle bombing in Times Square, New York, in 2010. (Shahzad subsequently received a life sentence.)
- Composer Lalo Schifrin is 93.
- Musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is 81.
- Actor Meredith Baxter is 78.
- Nobel peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi is 78.
- Actor Michael Gross is 78.
- Author Ian McEwan is 77.
- Musician Nils Lofgren is 74.
- Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is 68.
- Country musician Kathy Mattea is 66.
- Filmmaker Lana Wachowski is 60.
- Rapper-DJ-producer Pete Rock is 55.
- Actor Juliette Lewis is 52.
- Actor Chris Pratt is 46.
- Rock singer Brandon Flowers (The Killers) is 44.
- Britain s Prince William is 43.
- Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey is 40.
- Golfer Scottie Scheffler is 29.
