1909<\/strong> – The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – King George V of England was crowned.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.<\/p>\n 1925<\/strong> – France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – In France, Pierre Laval declared “I wish for a German victory”.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt\u00a0signed the “GI Bill of Rights” to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were blown up.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – Eddie Lubanski rolled 24 consecutive strikes in a bowling tournament in Miami, FL.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, “Tropic of Cancer”, could not be banned.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United States be 18.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – In Chicago, the Sears Tower Skydeck opened. (Willis Tower)<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong>\u00a0– Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal’s parole.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The 75th National Marbles Tournament began in Wildwood, NJ.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong>\u00a0– Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History of 22 June 1909 – The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA. 1911 – King George V of England was crowned. 1915 – Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat. 1925 – France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco. 1933 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[759,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-9915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-22-june","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-2zV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24229,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions\/24229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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