JUNE 21
1997:Los Angeles Sparks guard Penny Toler scores the first basket as the Women's National Basketball Association debuts with a game between the New York Liberty and the Los Angeles Sparks in Inglewood, Calif. WNBA President Val Ackerman throws up the first tip-off of the game, which the Liberty won 67-57.
1913: Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute out of an airplane, jumping 2,000 feet from a plane piloted by Glenn Martin over Griffith Park in Los Angeles.
2005: Exactly 41 years after the disappearance of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen is convicted of three counts of manslaughter for masterminding their murders. At age 80, Killen will be sentenced to 60 years in prison.
1997:Los Angeles Sparks guard Penny Toler scores the first basket as the Women's National Basketball Association debuts with a game between the New York Liberty and the Los Angeles Sparks in Inglewood, Calif. WNBA President Val Ackerman throws up the first tip-off of the game, which the Liberty won 67-57.
1913: Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute out of an airplane, jumping 2,000 feet from a plane piloted by Glenn Martin over Griffith Park in Los Angeles.
2005: Exactly 41 years after the disappearance of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen is convicted of three counts of manslaughter for masterminding their murders. At age 80, Killen will be sentenced to 60 years in prison.
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