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
1772 Slavery is outlawed in England.
1815 Napoleon abdicated his throne for the second time after his defeat at Waterloo.
1847 Doughnut created
1848 Beginning of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers
1865 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
1910 German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
1911 King George V of England is crowned.
1933 Adolf Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
1934 The work on first prototypes of The Peoples Car what became the (Volkswagen Beetle) was started by Ferdinand Porsche but it would take until 1936 before the first prototype was completed.
1938 In front of 80,000 people at Yankee Stadium Joe Louis knocked out the German Max Schmeling in two minutes and four seconds.
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 D. Roosevelt signs the GI bill of Rights Bill to provide financial aid to veterans returning from World War II.
1964 The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, “Tropic of Cancer”, could not be banned.
1970 President Richard Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
1978 James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.
1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
1990 Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin.
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.
1999 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.
2005 Ten Germans who were former Nazi officers during World War II were sentenced to life in prison by a military tribunal in La Spezia, Italy.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
