more events on June 22
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1995
Nigeria’s former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sani Abacha’s military government.
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1981
Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
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1980
The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
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1973
Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
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1970
President Richard Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
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1956
The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in The Casbah are blown up.
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1944
President Franklin Roosevelt signs the “GI Bill of Rights” to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
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1942
A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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1941
Ed Bradley, broadcast journalist.
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Under the code-name Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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1940
France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
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1938
Joe Louis floors Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium.
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1933
Adolf Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
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1930
A son is born to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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1925
France and Spain agree to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
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1921
Joseph Papp, theater director and producer, founder of the New York Public Theatre and Shakespeare-in-the-Park.
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1915
Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
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1911
King George V of England is crowned.
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1910
German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
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1906
Billy Wilder, film director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment).
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, wife of Charles Lindbergh (Gifts from the Sea).
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1898
Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front).
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1876
General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.
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1864
Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia.
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1807
British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
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1772
Slavery is outlawed in England.
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1757
George Vancouver, English navigator.
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1558
The French take the French town of Thionville from the English.
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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.