This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
06/22/1478 Philips de Schone, Archduke of Austrian/King of Castilia (Philips I)

06/22/1611 Pablo Bruna, composer 
06/22/1613 Lambert Pietkin, composer 
06/22/1674 Eugene J P, Earl of Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo 
06/22/1684 Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer 
06/22/1701 Nikolaj Eigtved, architect (Christiansborg Castle) 
06/22/1741 Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer 
06/22/1742 Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer 
06/22/1757 George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from SF to Vancouver I 
06/22/1763 Etienne N M‚hul, French organist/opera composer (Le Jeune Henri) 
06/22/1796 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [OS] 
06/22/1814 James Henry Lane, MC (Union), died in 1866 
06/22/1824 Frederic Louis Ritter, composer 
06/22/1830 Theodor Leschetizky, composer 
06/22/1837 Paul Morphy, New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time (1857-61

06/22/1840 Ernest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker) 
06/22/1856 Henry Rider Haggard, author (King Solomon's Mine, She, Dawn) 
06/22/1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italy, operatic composer (Madama Butterfly) 
06/22/1859 Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music) 
06/22/1864 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician 
06/22/1869 Hendrikus Col˜n, Dutch premier (AR 1933-39) 
06/22/1881 JHF Gr”nloh, [Nescio], author (Above the Vale) 
06/22/1883 Jose Rolon, composer 
06/22/1887 Albert PAA Besnard, poet/journalist (Uprising & Remorse) 
06/22/1887 Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog 
06/22/1891 Franz de Backer, Flemish writer (White Enemy) 
06/22/1891 Harry Seymour, actor (Boy Meets Girl, Tenderfoot, Broadway Hostess) 
06/22/1893 Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet (J„„peili) 
06/22/1893 Osvald Chlubna, composer 
06/22/1896 Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) 
06/22/1897 Norbert Elias, English/Dutch philosopher (Process of Civilization) 
06/22/1898 Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front) 
06/22/1899 Dorothy Devore, actress (Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil) 
06/22/1899 Michal Kalecki, Polish economist 
06/22/1900 Jennie Tourel, St Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera 1943-4

06/22/1901 Jack Whiting, Phila Pa, actor/singer (Marge & Gower Champion Show) 
06/22/1901 Naunton Wayne, actor (Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession) 
06/22/1902 Arnold J d'Ailly, director (Nederlandsche Bank) 
06/22/1902 David Burns, actor (Music Man, Hello Dolly!) 
06/22/1903 Carl Hubbell, pitcher (NY Giants)-253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA 
06/22/1905 Walter Leigh, composer 
06/22/1906 Billy Wilder, movie director (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17

06/22/1906 Richard Fanshawe, England, equestion 3 day event (Olympic-bronze-193

06/22/1907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, aviator/author (Gift from the Sea) 
06/22/1909 Katherine Dunham, dancer/choreographer 
06/22/1909 Mike Todd, [Avrom Goldbogen], US director (80 days) 
06/22/1910 Katherine Dunham, US, dancer/choreographer/anthropologist 
06/22/1910 Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor (Death in Venice) 
06/22/1911 Guus Jansen, actor (?) 
06/22/1911 Marie Philipsen-Braun, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1928) 
06/22/1912 Vit Nejedly, composer 
06/22/1918 Richard Eastham, actor (Not With My Wife, You Don't) 
06/22/1920 Paul Frees, Chicago Ill, animation voice (Bullwinkle) 
06/22/1921 Barbara F Vucanovich, (Rep-R-NV, 1983-  ) 
06/22/1921 Gower Champion, choreographer (42nd Street, Showboat) 
06/22/1921 Joseph Papp, Bkln, stage producer/director (Pirates of Penzance) 
06/22/1922 Bill Blass, Ft Wayne Ind, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan) 
06/22/1926 Ruth Zechlin, composer 
06/22/1928 Orson Bean, Burlington Vt, comedian (I Got Secret, To Tell the Truth

06/22/1929 Ralph Waite, actor (Last Summer, Cool Hand Luke, 5 Easy Piece) 
06/22/1931 Henk Vonhoff, Dutch politician (VVD) 
06/22/1932 Michael Horvit, composer 
06/22/1933 Dianne Feinstein, (Mayor-D-SF)/(Sen-D California) 
06/22/1934 Arthur Miller, legal reporter 
06/22/1936 Kris Kristofferson, singer/actor (Amerika, Millenium) 
06/22/1936 Verne Allison, singer (Dells-Open Up My Heart) 
06/22/1941 Ed Bradley, Phila, CBS news correspondant (60 Minutes) 
06/22/1941 Michael Lerner, actor (8 Men Out, Harlem Nights) 
06/22/1942 Margreet M H Kamp, Dutch politician (VVD) 2nd Chamber 
06/22/1942 Toyohiro Akiyama, Japan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11) 
06/22/1943 Jimmy Castor, NYC, rocker (Troglodyte) 
06/22/1944 Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor (Mephisto, Out of Africa) 
06/22/1944 Michael Obst, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1960) 
06/22/1944 Peter Asher, London, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love) 
06/22/1945 Howard Kaylan, rocker (Flo & Eddie/Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor) 
06/22/1946 Andrew Rubin, New Bedford Mass, actor (Police Academy) 
06/22/1947 David L Lander, Bkln NY, actor (Squiggy-Laverne & Shirley) 
06/22/1947 Don Henley, drummer/singer (Eagles, Boys of Summer) 
06/22/1947 Octavia E[stelle] Butler, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Wild Seed) 
06/22/1948 'Pistol' Pete Maravich, NBA star (Atlanta Hawks) 
06/22/1948 Todd Rundgren, rock singer (Hello it's Me, Bang on the Drum All Day)

06/22/1949 Alan Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie) 
06/22/1949 Lindsay Wagner, LA Ca, actress (Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawk

06/22/1949 Meryl Streep, NJ, actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choic

06/22/1950 Murphy Cross, Harve de Grace Md, actor (Phyl & Mikhy, Perfect) 
06/22/1954 Amparo Mu¤oz, Malgra Spain, Miss Universe (1974) 
06/22/1954 Charles T Canady, (Rep-R-Florida) 
06/22/1954 Chris Lemmon, actor (Brothers & Sisters, Richard-Duet) 
06/22/1954 Freddie Prinze, NYC, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man) 
06/22/1956 Derek Forbes, rocker (Simple Minds-Water Front) 
06/22/1956 Green [Gartside], rocker (Scritti Politti-Flesh & Blood) 
06/22/1957 Garry Beers, Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt) 
06/22/1957 Nick Santagata, jockey 
06/22/1960 Colleen Devine, San Gabriel Cal, actress (Irreconcilable Differences

06/22/1960 Tracy Pollan, actress (Family Ties)/aka Mrs Michael J Fox 
06/22/1961 Jimmy Somerville, rocker (Bronski Beat, Communards-You Are My World)

06/22/1962 Ruby Turner, rocker (No Where to Run) 
06/22/1963 Anne-Marie Ruddock, rocker (Amazulu-Excitable) 
06/22/1964 Kevin Sargeant, rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm) 
06/22/1964 Mike Edwards, British rock vocalist (Jesus Jones-Devil you Know) 
06/22/1965 Tommy Cunningham, rocker (Wet Wet Wet-Wishing I Was) 
06/22/1968 Paula Irvine, Hollywood Calif, actress (Lily Blake-Santa Barbara) 
06/22/1973 Lacy Goranson, Evanston Ind, actress (Becky-Roseanne) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
06/22/1276 Innocent V, [Pierre the Tarantaise], Pope (1276), dies 
06/22/1735 Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer, dies at 71 
06/22/1745 Hubert Renotte, composer, dies at 41 
06/22/1754 Nicholas Siret, composer, dies at 91 
06/22/1777 Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies 
06/22/1843 Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88 
06/22/1874 Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, die

06/22/1897 Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54 
06/22/1898 Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist, dies at 66 
06/22/1903 George White, black resident of Delaware, lynched 
06/22/1906 Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 

06/22/1909 Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 6

06/22/1910 Marie, Princess of Wied/Orange Nassau, dies 
06/22/1922 Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London 
06/22/1925 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Riemannsche Fl„chen), dies at 76 
06/22/1926 Hermann Suter, composer, dies at 56 
06/22/1928 George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba), dies at 46

06/22/1940 Vladimir K”ppen, Russ/German/Aust meteorologist, dies at 93 
06/22/1945 Gen Oesj˜ima, Japanese commander of Okinawa, commits harakiri 
06/22/1945 Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri 
06/22/1945 Mitsuri Ush˜ima, Jap lt-gen/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri 
06/22/1950 Julio Fonseca, composer, dies at 65 
06/22/1954 Don Hollenbeck, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49 
06/22/1955 Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56 
06/22/1961 Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies 
06/22/1964 Havank, [HF of of the Kallen], detective writer (Shade), dies at 60 
06/22/1965 David O Selznick, producer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 63 
06/22/1967 Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer, dies at 79 
06/22/1969 Judy Garland, singer/actress (Wizard of Oz), dies in London at 47 
06/22/1973 Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer, dies at 77 
06/22/1974 Darius Milhaud, French composer (Le boeuf sur le toŒt), dies at 81 
06/22/1979 Emory Parnell, St Paul Minn, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85 
06/22/1979 Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio 
06/22/1981 Lola Lane, actress (Zanzibar, Mystery Ship, Big Fight), dies 
06/22/1982 Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Challenge to Lassie), dies at 75 
06/22/1984 Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75 
06/22/1987 Fred Astaire, actor/dancer, dies at Century City Hospital in LA at 8

06/22/1988 Bramwell Fletcher, actor (Mummy, Raffles, Svengali), dies at 84 
06/22/1988 Dennis Day, Jack Benny Show singer, dies of ALS at 71 
06/22/1988 Ross Ford, actor (Reform School Girl, Jungle Patrol), dies 
06/22/1989 Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer, dies at 74 
06/22/1991 Cameron Miller, entertainer, dies 
06/22/1991 Kevin O'Connor, actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at 56 
06/22/1992 Chuck Mitchell, actor (Penitentiary), dies 
06/22/1992 Frederic I Rinaldo, writer (Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein), di

06/22/1992 M F K Fisher, cook book author, dies at 83 of Parkinson Disease 
06/22/1993 Hannah Troy, fashion designer (petite), dies at 93 of heart attack 
06/22/1993 M'hammed Boukhozba, Algerian sociologist, murdered at 52 
06/22/1993 Pat Nixon, 1st lady (1969-75), dies of lung cancer at 81 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
06/22/ 431 Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens 
06/22/ 816 Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III 
06/22/1342 Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning) 
06/22/1476 Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland 
06/22/1497 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath 
06/22/1559 Jewish quarter of Prague burned & looted 
06/22/1611 Henry Hudson & son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers 
06/22/1633 Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope 
06/22/1633 (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong) 
06/22/1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II 
06/22/1772 Slavery outlawed in England 
06/22/1774 English parliament accepts Quebec Act 
06/22/1775 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000) 
06/22/1799 England & Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic 
06/22/1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812 
06/22/1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak 
06/22/1812 Napoleon's Libya occupies Russia 
06/22/1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo) 
06/22/1847 Doughnut created 
06/22/1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres

06/22/1849 Stephen C Massett opens courthouse using only piano in Calif 
06/22/1851 Fire destroys part of SF 
06/22/1864 Battle of Ream's Station, VA (Wilson's Raid) 
06/22/1864 Skirmish at Culp's (Kulp's) House, Georgia 
06/22/1868 Arkansas re-enters US 
06/22/1870 Congress creates Department of Justice 
06/22/1873 Prince Edward Island joins Canada 
06/22/1874 Dr Andrew T Sill, of Macon, Missouri, finds science of osteopathy 
06/22/1875 Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000 
06/22/1889 Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive los

06/22/1893 British fleet under vice-admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut 
06/22/1894 Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner 
06/22/1906 Hakon VII crownd king of Norway 
06/22/1910 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland 
06/22/1911 King George V of England crowned 
06/22/1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois) 
06/22/1921 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2) 
06/22/1925 G Shajn discovers asteroid #1058 Grubba 
06/22/1925 Spain & France fight Morocco 
06/22/1930 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader 
06/22/1931 RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms 
06/22/1933 German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden 
06/22/1936 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives 
06/22/1936 Virgin Islands receives a constution from US (Organic Act) 
06/22/1937 Joe Louis KOs James Braddock for heavyweight boxing crown (Chicago) 
06/22/1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium 
06/22/1939 Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip 
06/22/1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms 
06/22/1940 SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond 
06/22/1941 Finland invades Karelia 
06/22/1941 Germany, Italy & Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II 
06/22/1942 Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon 
06/22/1943 WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters

06/22/1944 British 14th army frees Imphal Assam 
06/22/1944 FDR signs 'GI Bill of Rights' (Servicemen's Readjustment Act) 
06/22/1947 12' rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO) 
06/22/1949 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for boxing title 
06/22/1951 Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio 
06/22/1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands 
06/22/1955 Antonio Segni forms cabinet in Italy 
06/22/1955 US air patrol show down above Bering sea 
06/22/1957 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system 
06/22/1958 Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado 
06/22/1959 Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games 
06/22/1959 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax) 
06/22/1959 Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage 
06/22/1959 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed) 
06/22/1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints 
06/22/1961 Mo‹se Tsjombe frees Congo 
06/22/1962 1st test flight of Hoovercraft 
06/22/1962 French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed 
06/22/1969 Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance 
06/22/1969 Cleveland's Cuyahgo River catches fire 
06/22/1970 Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18) 
06/22/1970 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting 
06/22/1973 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water 
06/22/1973 George Harrison releases 'Living in the Material World' 
06/22/1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land 
06/22/1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison 
06/22/1977 Walt Disney's 'Rescuers' released 
06/22/1978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced 
06/22/1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill

06/22/1978 Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy 
06/22/1979 Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, Ohio 
06/22/1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours 
06/22/1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2 
06/22/1981 Iran president Bani Sadr flees 
06/22/1981 John McEnroe exhibites a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbeldon

06/22/1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon 
06/22/1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes 
06/22/1982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital 
06/22/1983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle 
06/22/1983 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period 
06/22/1984 Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minn Twins 
06/22/1984 Joseph Luns resigns as secretary-general of NATO 
06/22/1986 Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting 
06/22/1986 Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialistic Party wins elections 
06/22/1987 Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets 
06/22/1990 Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium 
06/22/1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit 
06/22/1990 Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns 
06/22/1991 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines 
06/22/1992 2 skeletons excuvated in Yekaterinburg IDed as Czar Nicholas II & wi

06/22/1993 NY Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose 
06/22/1993 Wilson Pickett plead guilty to auto assault due to drunk driving 
06/22/1994 Houston Rockets beats NY Knicks 4 games to 3 for NBA championship 
06/22/1994 US beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950) 
  
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