22 June History


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  • 1558    -    The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
  • 1772    -    Slavery is outlawed in England.
  • 1807    -    British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
  • 1864    -    Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia.
  • 1876    -    General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.
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  • 1910    -    German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
  • 1911    -    King George V of England crowned.
  • 1915    -    Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
  • 1925    -    France and Spain agree to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
  • 1930    -    A son is born to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
  • 1933    -    Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
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  • 1938    -    Joe Louis floors Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium.
  • 1940    -    France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
  • 1941    -    Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union.
  • 1942    -    A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
  • 1944    -    President Franklin Roosevelt signs the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
  • 1956    -    The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in Casbah are blown up.
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  • 1970    -    President Richard Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
  • 1973    -    Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
  • 1980    -    The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
  • 1981    -    Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
  • 1995    -    Nigeria's former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sami Abacha's military government.

  • 22 June Birthdays

  • 1757    -    George Vancouver, English navigator.
  • 1898    -    Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front).
  • 1906    -    Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, wife of Charles Lindbergh (Gifts from the Sea).
  • 1906    -    Billy Wilder, film director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment).
  • 1921    -    Joseph Papp, theater director and producer, founder of the New York Public Theatre and Shakespeare-in-the-Park.
  • 1941    -    Ed Bradley, broadcast journalist.