History in 21st Jun

In a bloodless confrontation, the Spanish garrison on Guam surrenders the island to the USS Charleston. The Charleston had left the larger fleet to capture the Pacific island, and met Admiral George Dewey's fleet in Manila Bay.  

Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney, disappear in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Schwerner and Goodman were "Freedom Riders" from New York who traveled to the Deep South to help register African-Americans to vote. Their bodies were found six weeks later, and several Ku Klux Klan members and law enforcement officers were tried for the murders.

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