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Events on the 22nd of June in history

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22 Jun 0168 Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
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22 Jun 0217 Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
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22 Jun 0431 Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
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22 Jun 0816 Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III
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22 Jun 0816 Stephen IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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22 Jun 1342 Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning)
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22 Jun 1377 Richard II succeeds Edward III as King of England
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22 Jun 1476 Battle at Morat / Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland
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22 Jun 1497 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath
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22 Jun 1527 Fatahillah chased away Portugal from Sunda Kelapa harbour, and peoples celebrated it as birthday of Jakarta, Indonesia.
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22 Jun 1533 Ferdinand of Austria and Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty
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22 Jun 1559 Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted
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22 Jun 1593 Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
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22 Jun 1596 Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java
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22 Jun 1611 Henry Hudson & son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers
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22 Jun 1622 Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
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22 Jun 1633 Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (but on October 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)
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22 Jun 1633 The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
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22 Jun 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
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22 Jun 1740 King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture and guarantees religion and freedom of the press
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22 Jun 1745 Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland
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22 Jun 1772 Slavery outlawed in England
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22 Jun 1774 English parliament accepts Quebec Act
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22 Jun 1774 The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
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22 Jun 1775 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
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22 Jun 1783 A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
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22 Jun 1799 England and Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic
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22 Jun 1807 In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
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22 Jun 1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
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22 Jun 1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
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22 Jun 1813 War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
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22 Jun 1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
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22 Jun 1825 The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
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22 Jun 1832 John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
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22 Jun 1839 Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
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22 Jun 1847 Doughnut created
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22 Jun 1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for President
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22 Jun 1849 Stephen C Massett opens courthouse using only piano in California
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22 Jun 1851 Fire destroys part of SF
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22 Jun 1868 Arkansas re-enters US
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22 Jun 1870 1st Boardwalk in America invented
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22 Jun 1870 US Congress created the United States Department of Justice
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22 Jun 1870 Congress creates Department of Justice
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22 Jun 1873 Prince Edward Island joins Canada
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22 Jun 1874 Game of lawn tennis introduced
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22 Jun 1874 Dr Andrew T Sill, of Macon, Missouri, finds science of osteopathy
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22 Jun 1875 Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun and Toulouse, kills about 1,000
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22 Jun 1889 Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
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22 Jun 1893 British fleet under vice-admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut
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22 Jun 1893 The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
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22 Jun 1894 Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner
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22 Jun 1897 British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
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22 Jun 1898 Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
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22 Jun 1906 Hakon VII crowned King of Norway
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22 Jun 1906 The flag of Sweden is adopted.
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22 Jun 1907 The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
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22 Jun 1910 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
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22 Jun 1911 George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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22 Jun 1911 King George V of England crowned
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22 Jun 1915 BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
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22 Jun 1918 32nd US Womens Tennis: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats E E Goss (64 63)
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22 Jun 1918 The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
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22 Jun 1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)
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22 Jun 1921 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2)
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22 Jun 1922 Herrin massacre: Nineteen strikebreakers and three union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
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22 Jun 1925 Spain and France fight Morocco
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22 Jun 1925 G Shajn discovers asteroid #1058 Grubba
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22 Jun 1926 Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
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22 Jun 1929 Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader
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22 Jun 1930 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
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22 Jun 1931 RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
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22 Jun 1932 NL, finally approves players wearing numbers
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22 Jun 1933 German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden
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22 Jun 1936 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives
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22 Jun 1936 Virgin Islands receives a constution from US (Organic Act)
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22 Jun 1937 Joe Louis KOs James J Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Jun 1937 Joe Louis KOs James Braddock for the heavyweight boxing crown
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22 Jun 1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium
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22 Jun 1939 Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip
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22 Jun 1940 SS rounds up 31 German / Polish / Dutch Jews in Roermond Neth
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22 Jun 1940 France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
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22 Jun 1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
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22 Jun 1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
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22 Jun 1941 Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states
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22 Jun 1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WWII
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22 Jun 1941 Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk"
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22 Jun 1941 President Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights"
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22 Jun 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
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22 Jun 1941 The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
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22 Jun 1941 Finland invades Karelia
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22 Jun 1941 Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
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22 Jun 1942 Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
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22 Jun 1942 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WWII, forms
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22 Jun 1942 Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
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22 Jun 1942 Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress
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22 Jun 1943 WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
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22 Jun 1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
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22 Jun 1944 British 14th army frees Imphal Assam
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22 Jun 1944 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
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22 Jun 1944 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
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22 Jun 1944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
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22 Jun 1944 Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn
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22 Jun 1945 The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
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22 Jun 1946 Bill Veeck purchases Cleveland Indians
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22 Jun 1947 12" rain in 42 minutes (Holt, MO)
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22 Jun 1947 Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn)
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22 Jun 1947 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
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22 Jun 1949 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for the boxing title
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22 Jun 1951 Gene Rayburn and Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio
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22 Jun 1954 In Christchurch (New Zealand) Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother because they think she is in the way of their close friendship (movie Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson in 1994). See Parker–Hulme murder case.
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22 Jun 1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
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22 Jun 1955 Antonio Segni forms government in Italy
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22 Jun 1955 US air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea
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22 Jun 1957 The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
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22 Jun 1957 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
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22 Jun 1958 Game in Kansas City between Athletics and Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado
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22 Jun 1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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22 Jun 1959 "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9
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22 Jun 1959 "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38
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22 Jun 1959 Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
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22 Jun 1959 Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
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22 Jun 1959 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
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22 Jun 1959 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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22 Jun 1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints
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22 Jun 1962 1st test flight of Hoovercraft
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22 Jun 1962 French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed
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22 Jun 1963 "Little" Stevie Wonder (13) releases "Fingertips"
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22 Jun 1968 "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
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22 Jun 1969 The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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22 Jun 1969 Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance
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22 Jun 1970 President Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
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22 Jun 1970 Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
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22 Jun 1970 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting
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22 Jun 1972 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances
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22 Jun 1973 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
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22 Jun 1973 George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World"
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22 Jun 1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land
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22 Jun 1975 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
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22 Jun 1976 "Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 527 performances
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22 Jun 1976 SD Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk
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22 Jun 1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
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22 Jun 1977 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" released
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22 Jun 1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois
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22 Jun 1978 Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.
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22 Jun 1978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced
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22 Jun 1978 Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy
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22 Jun 1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Jun 1979 Little Richard quits rock & roll for religious pursuit
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22 Jun 1979 Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, Ohio
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22 Jun 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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22 Jun 1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
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22 Jun 1981 Iran President Bani Sadr deposed
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22 Jun 1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
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22 Jun 1981 John McEnroe exhibites a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbeldon
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22 Jun 1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
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22 Jun 1982 Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place
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22 Jun 1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
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22 Jun 1982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital
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22 Jun 1983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
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22 Jun 1983 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period
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22 Jun 1984 Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
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22 Jun 1984 Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minn Twins
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22 Jun 1984 Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
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22 Jun 1984 Joseph Luns resigns as Secretary General of NATO
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22 Jun 1984 Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
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22 Jun 1985 "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
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22 Jun 1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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22 Jun 1986 The controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2-1 and go on to win the world cup.
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22 Jun 1986 Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting
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22 Jun 1987 Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with New York Mets
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22 Jun 1990 Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with GM Bobby Cox
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22 Jun 1990 Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
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22 Jun 1990 Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium
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22 Jun 1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
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22 Jun 1990 Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns
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22 Jun 1991 "I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 88 performances
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22 Jun 1991 Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft
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22 Jun 1991 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Phillipines
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22 Jun 1992 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg IDed as Czar Nicholas II and wife
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22 Jun 1992 Supreme Court rules "hate crime" laws violated free-speech rights
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22 Jun 1993 New York Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose
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22 Jun 1993 Wilson Pickett plead guilty to auto assault due to drunk driving
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22 Jun 1994 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 3
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22 Jun 1994 Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253
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22 Jun 1994 US beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950)
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22 Jun 1996 Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavywgt boxing title
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22 Jun 1997 Nationwide Senior Golf Championship
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22 Jun 1997 Penny Hammel wins LPGA Rochester International
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22 Jun 1997 World Bowl: Barcelona Dragon beat Rhein Fire, 38-24
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22 Jun 2002 An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
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22 Jun 2009 Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
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22 Jun 2012 Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
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