Today in History: June 21, US Constitution becomes law

This day is Saturday June the nd day of There are days left in the year Nowadays in history On June the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the required ninth state to ratify it Also on this date In Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his mechanical reaper Related Articles Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention How to stay cool in the heat wave hitting parts of the US even without air conditioning Jaws turns It changed pop civilization and our perception of sharks Billions of login credentials have been leaked online Cybernews researchers say Supreme Court allows casualties of terrorist attacks to sue the Palestinian Authority In the first Ferris wheel opened to the general as part of the Chicago World s Fair In an Imperial Japanese submarine fired shells at Fort Stevens on the Oregon coast but caused little damage In scientists of the American Cancer Society presented a survey to a meeting of the American Health Association in San Francisco which located that men who regularly smoked cigarettes died particularly from lung cancer at a considerably higher rate than non-smokers In civil rights activists James Chaney Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba County Mississippi their bodies were located buried in an earthen dam six weeks later Forty-one years later on this date in Edgar Ray Killen an -year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was ascertained guilty of manslaughter in their deaths he was sentenced to years in prison where he died in January In a jury in Washington D C revealed John Hinckley Jr not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan Press Secretary James Brady Washington D C police office Thomas Delahanty and Secret Arrangement agent Tim McCarthy In a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled in Texas v Johnson that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment In the WNBA made its debut as the New York Liberty defeated the host Los Angeles Sparks - In the aircraft SpaceShipOne made the first privately funded human spaceflight In Faisal Shahzad a Pakistan-born U S citizen pleaded guilty to charges of plotting a failed car bombing in New York s Times Square Shahzad was later sentenced to life in prison In the current era s Birthdays Composer Lalo Schifrin is Musician Ray Davies The Kinks is Actor Meredith Baxter is Nobel peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi is Actor Michael Gross is Author Ian McEwan is Musician Nils Lofgren is Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is Country musician Kathy Mattea is Filmmaker Lana Wachowski is Rapper-DJ-producer Pete Rock is Actor Juliette Lewis is Actor Chris Pratt is Rock singer Brandon Flowers The Killers is Britain s Prince William is Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey is Golfer Scottie Scheffler is