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Today in History

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1535Jun 22John Fisher (65), English bishop (1504-35), cardinal, saint, was beheaded by Henry VIII.
1558Jun 22The French took the French town of Thioville from the English.
1564Jun 22A 3-ship French expedition under René de Laudonnière arrived in Florida and built Fort Caroline. French artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues was part of the expedition.
1633Jun 22Galileo Galilei was again forced by the Pope to recant that the Earth orbits the Sun. On Oct 31, 1992, the Vatican admitted it was wrong.
1675Jun 22Royal Greenwich Observatory was established in England by Charles II.
1684Jun 22Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, was born.
1740Jun 22King Frederick II of Prussia ended torture and guaranteed religion and freedom of the press.
1741Jun 22Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, was born.
1757Jun 22George Vancouver, surveyed America’s Pacific coast from San Francisco to Vancouver, was born.
1807Jun 22British officers of the HMS Leopard boarded the USS Chesapeake after she had set sail for the Mediterranean, and demanded the right to search the ship for deserters. Commodore James Barron refused and the British opened fire with broadsides on the unprepared Chesapeake and forced her to surrender. The British provocation led to the War of 1812.
1812Jun 22Napoleon’s Grand Army invaded Russia.
1815Jun 22Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
1847Jun 22The 1st doughnut with a hole in it was created.
1849Jun 22San Francisco experienced its first theatrical performance with a one-man show in Portsmouth Square by Stephen C. Massett, an itinerant Brit.
1858Jun 22Giacomo Puccini (d.1924), Italian composer of Madam Butterfly, was born. His work included the opera “Calaf.”
1860Jun 22Nathan Maroney, a Philadelphia station agent for Adams Express Co., pleaded guilty to the theft of $40,000 after Pinkerton agents, who had secretly befriended him, appeared in court to testify against him.
1864Jun 22Battle of Ream’s Station, VA (Wilson’s Raid).
1868Jun 22Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
1870Jun 22The US Congress created the Department of Justice.
1874Jun 22Dr. Andrew T. Sill of Macon, Missouri, founded osteopathy.
1876Jun 22Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, married Frank Butler, marksman.
1885Jun 22In Sudan Muhammad Ahmad (b.1844), religious leader of the Samaniyya order, died of typhus. His chief deputy, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad took over the administration of the nascent Mahdist state.
1887Jun 22Sir Julian Huxley was born in London. He became a biologist and philosopher and served as Darwin’s Bulldog.
1903Jun 22George White, a black resident of Delaware, was lynched.
1906Jun 22Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, wife of Charles Lindbergh (Gifts from the Sea), was born.
1907Jun 22Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author (Gift from the Sea), was born.
1910Jun 22German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announced a definitive cure for syphilis.
1911Jun 22King George V of England crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1915Jun 22Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreated.
1921Jun 22Joseph Papp, theater director and producer, founder of the New York Public Theatre and Shakespeare-in-the-Park, was born.
1925Jun 22France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
1930Jun 22A son was born to Charles and Anne Murrow Lindbergh.
1933Jun 22Germany became a one political party country as Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
1934Jun 22San Francisco Police Capt. Charles Goff voiced the sensational charge that carefully planned communistic programs are being carried out in SF schools and churches.
1936Jun 22Kris Kristofferson, singer/actor, was born.
1937Jun 22Joe Louis began his reign as world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jim Braddock in the eighth round of their fight in Chicago.
1938Jun 22US boxing champion Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round of their heavyweight rematch at New York City’s Yankee Stadium. Schmeling had won their first fight in NYC on June 19, 1936.
1940Jun 22During World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris. France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941Jun 22Ed Bradley, CBS news correspondent and one of the hosts of “Sixty Minutes,” was born.
1941Jun 22Germany occupied the Baltic states.
1942Jun 22The first delivery of V-Mail was in 1942.
1949Jun 22Lindsay Wagner, actress, was born in Los Angeles. Her films included “Bionic Woman,” “Paper Chase,” and “Nighthawks.”
1956Jun 22The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were blown up.
1962Jun 22The Hovercraft was 1st tested.
1965Jun 22David O. Selznick, producer, died at 63. His films included “Gone With the Wind.” In 1992 David Thomson authored “Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick.” In 1972 his collected memos were edited by Rudy Behlmer and published as “Memo From David O. Selznick.”
1969Jun 22The highly polluted Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught on fire.
1970Jun 22President Nixon signed the 26th amendment, a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
1973Jun 22Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
 1977Jun 22Walt Disney’s film “The Rescuers” was released.
1978Jun 22Neo-Nazis called off plans to march in the Jewish community of Skokie, Ill.
1980Jun 22The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1981Jun 22Mark David Chapman (b.1955) pleaded guilty to killing John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He was sentenced 20 years to life in prison.
1983Jun 22Emanuela Orlandi (b.1968), the daughter of a Vatican messenger, disappeared after a music lesson in Rome. She was 15 at the time. Her self-proclaimed kidnappers demanded the release of Ali Agca, who wounded the Pope in 1981, for her freedom. They never offered any proof they had the girl or that she was alive.
1984Jun 22Richard Branson led the inaugural flight of his Virgin Airlines from London to Newark, NJ.
1988Jun 22Singer Dennis Day, Jack Benny’s sidekick, died at age 71.
1989Jun 22The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war. Some 1.5 million people were killed during this period and over 4 million forced to flee their homes.
1990Jun 22African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela addressed delegates at the United Nations, where he said victory for a democratic, non-racial South Africa was “within our grasp.”
1991Jun 22An estimated 200,000 Albanians turned out in the capital Tirana to cheer visiting US Secretary of State James Baker.
1992Jun 22Anastasia, a daughter of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, was identified as one of the skeletons excavated in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
1993Jun 22Former first lady Pat Nixon died in Park Ridge, N.J., at age 81.
1994Jun 22The Houston Rockets defeated the New York Knicks 90-84 to win the NBA championship.
1995Jun 22US House and Senate Republicans announced agreement on a compromise seven-year budget-balancing plan that would cut taxes by $245 billion and slow spending for Medicare, Medicaid and dozens of other programs.
1996Jun 22US Pres. Clinton endorsed a national registry to track sexual predators as they cross state lines.
1997Jun 22Iran and Iraq opened their border after 17 years and asked the UN for an inspection post there, giving Iraq a 4th exit point for its goods.
1998Jun 22The Supreme Court made it much harder for students who are sexually harassed by teachers to hold school districts financially responsible, ruling 5-4 that a key anti-bias law applies only if administrators know about the misconduct.
1999Jun 22Pres. Clinton visited refugees in Macedonia and urged them to delay their return to Kosovo until protection from mines was ensured.
2000Jun 22Independent Counsel Robert Ray ended his investigation of the 1993 firings in the White House travel office, issuing no indictments but saying he’d found “substantial evidence” that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton played a role in the dismissals.
2001Jun 22The US and Mexico unveiled a new border safety pact with measures to prevent migrants from crossing at deadly transit points and planned to equip US agents with nonlethal weapons.
2002Jun 22St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile was found dead in the team’s Chicago hotel; he was 33.
2003Jun 22The Belgian government agreed on changes to narrow a war crimes law and prevent complaints against foreign leaders that have provoked vehement criticism from the US.
2004Jun 22The American Film Institute released its list of 100 best movie songs. Judy Garland’s “Over the Rainbow” from the 1939 “Wizard of Oz” topped the list.
2005Jun 22The US reported plans to send 50,000 tons of food to North Korea.
2006Jun 22The Bush administration confirmed it had gained access to international banking records as part of a classified program to choke off financial support for terrorism.
2007Jun 22The US House of Representatives voted to prohibit any aid to Saudi Arabia as lawmakers accused the close ally of religious intolerance and bankrolling terrorist organizations.
2008Jun 22Dody Goodman (b.1914) comedian and character actress, died in New Jersey. She had gained famed on Jack Paar’s late-night show (1957) and as the ditsy matriarch on the 1976 “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” soap opera.
2009Jun 22Pres. Obama, in an effort to curb teen smoking, signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The legislation gave the FDA unprecedented authority to regulate what goes into tobacco products.
2010Jun 22Austin Heap (26) launched Proxyheap, the precursor to anti-censorship software called Haystack. He soon received a license from the US treasury, State Dept. and commerce Dept. to export it to Iran. The software was withdrawn on Sep 10 due to security issues.
2011Jun 22In Guatemala the World Bank unveiled a billion-dollar plan to fund security measures in Central America, amid other hundred-million-dollar pledges from donors bidding to cut a wave of drug gang-related violence sweeping the region. The announcement came as leaders of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama attended the Central American Security Conference aiming to curb crime fueled by a spillover from Mexico’s war on drug cartels.
2012Jun 22In Pennsylvania Jerry Sandusky (68), former defensive coach at Penn State, was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years.
2013Jun 22In Ohio a plane carrying wing walker Jane Wicker crashed at The Vectren Air Show near Dayton. Wicker and the pilot were killed.
2014Jun 22Spain’s police said three people have been arrested on suspicion of illegally scanning and then unlawfully publishing books on a large scale. More than 1000 books and 10 computer hard drives full of texts were seized.
 Source: Timelines of History

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