TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 22
1377 Richard II, who is still a child, begins his reign, following the death of his grandfather, Edward III. His coronation takes place July 16.
1611 Henry Hudson & son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers
1633 Galileo Galilei forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope (Vatican only admits it was wrong on Oct 31, 1992!)
1772 Somerset v Stewart court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encouraging the abolitionist movement
1807 British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1847 Doughnut created
1865 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
1870 Congress creates Department of Justice
1874 Dr. Andrew Still became the first to practice osteopathy.
1876 General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.
1910 German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
1933 Adolf Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
1936 Virgin Islands receives a constution from US (Organic Act)
1941 Under the code-name 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.
1945 Okinawa falls to U.S. troops
1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
1964 The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, “Tropic of Cancer”, could not be banned.
1973 Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1978 James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.
1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
1983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
1990 Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled
1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
1992 The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal’s parole.
1999 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.
2011 Legendary Boston crime boss,James “Whitey” Bulger is found and arrested by federal authorities in Santa Monica, Calif.
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
