If you get a sudden urge to go galumphing through fields of flowers, it's not witchcraft. It's summer.Summer officially arrived Wednesday afternoon, which made June 21 the longest day of the year.
Want to know what else happened on various June 21's throughout history? Here, courtesy of the Brainy History online site, are some interesting ones:
• 1990: Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
• 1989: Supreme Court rules OK to burn U.S. flag as a political expression
• 1987: Boxer Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant
• 1985: American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele
• 1982: John Hinckley found not guilty of attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity
• 1977: Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
• 1963: Giovanni Battista Montini succeeds John XXIII, takes name Pope Paul VI
• 1948: The first stored computer program run, on the Manchester Mark I
• 1945: U.S. defeats Japanese on Okinawa
• 1939: Doctors say baseball great Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• 1913: Tiny Broadwick is first woman to parachute from a plane
• 1893: Ferris wheel premieres at Chicago's Columbian Exposition
• 1788: U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is ninth to ratify
• 1633: Inquisition forces Galileo to abandon sun-centric theory
And, for a very special treat, click here to see and hear the late Ella Fitzgerald sing the classic "Summertime" during a 1968 concert in Berlin.
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