Today in History, June 22

Every day is flush with history. June 22 is certainly no exception.

1497 - Antitax rebellion in Cornwall concealed at Blackheath

1559 - Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted

1611 - Henry Hudson and his son set floating in the Hudson Bay by mutineers

1633 - Galileo Galilei ordered by Pope to recant that Earth orbits the sun. (In 1992, the Vatican finally admits that it was wrong.)

1675 - King Charles II of England established Royal Greenwich Observatory

1772 - Slavery is outlawed in England

1808 - Zebulon Pike reaches his peak

1812 - Russia invaded by Napoleon's Grand Army

1832 - John Howe patents the pin manufacturing machine

1847 - Creation of the doughnut

1848 - The anti-slavery party, the barnburners, nominate Martin Van Buren for President

1851 - Part of San Francisco destroyed in fire

1868 - Arkansas re-enters the United States

1870 - Congress creates Department of Justice, first boardwalk in U.S. invented

1873 - Prince Edward Island joins Canada

1874 - Game of lawn tennis introduced, science of osteopathy found by Dr. Andrew T Sill, of Macon Missouri

1894 - Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner

1911- King George V crowned King of England

1918 - In Ivanhoe, Illinois, a circus train rams into a train troop; 68 dead

1925 - Spain and France fight Morocco

1940 - France falls to Nazi Germany

1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Servicemen's Readjustment Act, "GI Bill of Rights"

1955 - Government in Italy formed by Antonio Segni

1961 - Beatles record several song in Hamburg: Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child and My Bonnie

1970 - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional, Richard Nixon, U.S. President, signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18

1978 - James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced

1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to the assassination of John Lennon

1983 - In France, "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released

1986 - Elections won by Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party

1990 - Florida passes a law prohibits the wearing of a throng bathing suit