Politics & Government

Five Things You Need to Know: June 21

These are things you need to know.

Here are five things to know today, June 21.
1. Today is the first day of summer. Go out and do something fun to celebrate.

 

2. Today is also National Go Skateboard Day. I was a young skate punk once. Go out and ollie a gap.

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3. The weather today is going to be in the 80s with a 40 percent chance of rain.

4. Jean-Paul Sartre would be 106 today. Get your existentialism on.

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5. Today in 1964, civil rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Philadelphia, Miss. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed 11 days later.

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