Molly Maguires Hang, Fort Stevens Attacked, Fidel Sánchez Dead

On This Progressive Day: June 21

The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons (1877)

A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens (1942)

b: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905); d: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1908), Fidel Velázquez Sánchez (1997)

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