|
---|
Birthday June 22, 1757 George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from S.F. to Vancouver I |
Birthday June 22, 1837 Paul Morphy, US greatest chess player of all time champ (1857-61) |
Birthday June 22, 1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer |
Birthday June 22, 1887 Sir Julian Huxley, biologist and philosopher of science |
Birthday June 22, 1898 Erich Maria Remarque born |
Birthday June 22, 1898 Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front) |
Birthday June 22, 1906 Billy Wilder, movie director |
Birthday June 22, 1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh is born |
Birthday June 22, 1907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator, author (Gift from the Sea) |
Birthday June 22, 1910 Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist |
Birthday June 22, 1910 Peter Pears, tenor |
Birthday June 22, 1921 Joseph Papp, stage producer and director |
Birthday June 22, 1922 Bill Blass, fashion designer |
Birthday June 22, 1933 Dianne Feinstein, (D-mayor-SF) |
Birthday June 22, 1936 Kris Kristofferson, singer/Actor (Amerika) |
Birthday June 22, 1941 Ed Bradley, CBS News somewhere |
Birthday June 22, 1948 Todd Rundgren, (Hello, it's Me) |
Birthday June 22, 1949 Lindsey Wagner, LA (Bionic Woman) |
Birthday June 22, 1949 Meryl Streep, NJ (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice) |
Birthday June 22, 1964 Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown is born |
History June 22, 1611 Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay during mutiny |
History June 22, 1611 Hudson set adrift by mutineers |
History June 22, 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II |
History June 22, 1772 slavery outlawed in England |
History June 22, 1775 Congress issues Continental currency |
History June 22, 1775 1st Continental currency authorized |
History June 22, 1807 British board USS Chesapeake - a provocation leading to War of 1812 |
History June 22, 1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak |
History June 22, 1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo) |
History June 22, 1847 Doughnut invented |
History June 22, 1849 Stephen C Massett opens at courthouse as 1st professional entertainer using (allegedly) only piano in Cal |
History June 22, 1851 Fire destroys part of SF |
History June 22, 1864 Lee strikes back at Petersburg |
History June 22, 1868 Arkansas reenters US |
History June 22, 1870 Dept of Justice cabinet-level federal agency founded |
History June 22, 1876 General Santa Anna dies in Mexico City |
History June 22, 1889 Louisville Colonels set major-league baseball record with 26th consecutive loss |
History June 22, 1910 1st airship passengers - Zeppelin Deutscheland |
History June 22, 1911 King George V of England crowned |
History June 22, 1930 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game - Ruth hits 3 in double header |
History June 22, 1937 Joe Lewis wins world heavyweight title from James Braddock by KO |
History June 22, 1937 Louis becomes champ |
History June 22, 1938 Joe Lewis knocks out Max Schmeling in 1st round |
History June 22, 1940 France falls to Nazi Germany |
History June 22, 1941 Germany launches Operation Barbarossa—the invasion of Russia |
History June 22, 1941 Germany declares war on Russia during WW II |
History June 22, 1944 FDR signs GI bill |
History June 22, 1944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act) |
History June 22, 1945 Battle of Okinawa ends |
History June 22, 1950 Bernstein, Copland, Seeger and others are named as Communists |
History June 22, 1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands |
History June 22, 1957 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system |
History June 22, 1962 Mysterious crash in Guadeloupe |
History June 22, 1970 Pres Nixon signs 26th Amendment (voting age 18) |
History June 22, 1971 South Vietnamese fight for Fire Base Fuller |
History June 22, 1972 New troops sent to An Loc |
History June 22, 1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land |
History June 22, 1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in AL prison |
History June 22, 1977 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" is released |
History June 22, 1978 Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy |
History June 22, 1979 Julius Sommer dies of heart failure buried in Dayton Oh |
History June 22, 1979 Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton - O |
History June 22, 1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing Beatle John Lennon |
History June 22, 1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes |
History June 22, 1982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital |
History June 22, 1983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle |
History June 22, 1986 Hand of God helps out Maradona |
History June 22, 1987 Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets |
History June 22, 1987 Actor/Dancer Fred Astaire dies |
History June 22, 1989 Cease-fire established in Angolan civil war |
History June 22, 2001 Blockbuster hit movie The Fast and the Furious released |
History June 22, 2008 George Carlin dies |
History June 22, 2011 Notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger is arrested |