Five Things to Know Today: June 21

1. Weather: The National Weather Service forecast for our area says there is a 30 percent chance of a thunderstorm today and a high temperature of 86 degrees.

2. In Case You Missed It: Football great Chuck Bednarik made a recent appearance at Cedarbrook-Fountain Hill.

3. Quote of the Day: "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science." Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. Coming Up: Last weekend's Antique Truck Show at Macungie Memorial Park was a history lesson.

5. Today in History: On this day in 1964, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were killed by a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob near Meridian, Mississippi. The three young civil rights workers were working to register black voters in Mississippi, thus inspiring the ire of the local Klan. The deaths of Schwerner and Goodman, white Northerners and members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), caused a national outrage.