June 21

The 21st is a day full of contradictions. It abounds with examples of both the depths to which humanity can sink as well as the heights it is capable of soaring to.
On the 21st in 1964, the Ku Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner in Mississippi.
Forty years later, on the 21st in 2004, Dick Rutan’s Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space ship to reach orbital altitude. On October 4 Rutan’s team would go on to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.