Calendar for June 21st, 2012

2001: Summer Solstice

National Aboriginal Day (Canada)

In Sweden, people celebrate the Summer Solstice by eating the first strawberries of the season

2001: Father's Day

Died 1377: King Edward III of England

1768: John Archer became first to receive Bachelor of Medicine degree in U.S.

1788: New Hampshire ratified the Constitution and was admitted as the 9th state

1893: The ferris wheel debuted at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

Born 1905: Jean-Paul Sartre (writer & philosopher)

Born 1921: Jane Russell (actress)

Born 1921: Judy Holliday (actress)

Born 1925: Maureen Stapleton (actress)

1940: France surrendered to Germany (WW II)

1940: Richard M. Nixon married Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan

1955: Sesquicentennial U.S. postage stamp "The Old Man of the Mountains" debuted

1961: The original Walt Disney movie The Parent Trap debuted

1964: Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect baseball game

Born 1964: Doug Savant (actor)

Born 1982: Prince William of Wales (oldest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana)

1984: The first amendment to Canada's Constitution Act of 1982, which guaranteed the constitutional rights of Indians and Inuits, took effect

Died 2001: Carroll O'Connor (actor)

2004: SpaceShipOne left the Earth behind and made its indelible entry in the history books as the first private spacecraft to carry humans into space

2005: A 25-foot-tall, 17.5-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid

Died 2008: Kermit Love (costume designer)