On This Day
22nd June
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opened.
1922 – 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners were murdered in Herrin, Illinois.
1941 - Hitler's German troops invaded the Soviet Union.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River, in Northeast Ohio in the United States, caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in the river. Time magazine described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather than flows" and in which a person "does not drown but decays."
1969 – Judy Garland died.
1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, was discovered.
1981 - Mark Chapman changed his plea to guilty and admitted he murdered John Lennon in December 1980.
1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launched. Its first flight was from London Heathrow Airport.
1987 – Fred Astaire died.
2002 – An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale killed more than 261 people.
2009 – Two Metro trains on the Red Line crashed in Northeast, Washington, D.C., USA, killing at least six people and causing at least 100 injuries.
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opened.
1922 – 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners were murdered in Herrin, Illinois.
1941 - Hitler's German troops invaded the Soviet Union.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River, in Northeast Ohio in the United States, caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in the river. Time magazine described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather than flows" and in which a person "does not drown but decays."
1969 – Judy Garland died.
1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, was discovered.
1981 - Mark Chapman changed his plea to guilty and admitted he murdered John Lennon in December 1980.
1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launched. Its first flight was from London Heathrow Airport.
1987 – Fred Astaire died.
2002 – An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale killed more than 261 people.
2009 – Two Metro trains on the Red Line crashed in Northeast, Washington, D.C., USA, killing at least six people and causing at least 100 injuries.
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