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June 22: National Onion Ring Day: --
Today the nation celebrates the deep-fried, irresistible
deliciousness of onion rings - by eating as many of them as
possible! It's unclear when onion rings were first developed, but
an onion ring-like recipe appeared in an 1802 cookbook, and
another surfaced in a New York newspaper in 1910. Texas-based
restaurant chain Kirbys Pig Stand claims it played a big part in
onion rings' creation, and fast food restaurant A & W helped
them reach widespread popularity. There is still an ongoing debate
over who deserves credit for the snack's creation, and cooks also
still argue about how to best prepare and serve onion rings for
the most flavorful results. Some onion rings are even made from an
onion paste, as opposed to an onion ring itself! This style of
preparation can make it easier to eat the rings without
accidentally yanking the onion out of the fried batter. However
onion rings first came to be - and however you prefer yours
prepared - they're now a beloved snack across the U.S., the U.K.,
Canada, Australia, Ireland, South Africa, some regions of Asia,
and other corners of the world. They've also inspired countless
spin-off snacks, like blooming onions and Funyun chips. So no
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22: National Pet Choking Prevention
Day: -- A mission-driven campaign to spread education to
pet-parents all over the globe about the everyday pet choking
hazards around your home, the shocking statistics of how common
(and avoidable) pet choking is, and the simple yet important ways
we can come together to help eliminate these risks for our beloved
pets. Driven by an unwavering commitment to pet safety, National
Pet Choking Prevention Day was created with a simple mission of
"Target: Zero", working hard towards the goal to 100%
eliminate tragic pet choking deaths and pet choking incidents.
Tragically, over 200,000 pet choking incidents occur annually in
the United States, costing pet parents millions of dollars in
veterinarian fees, more importantly, costing them an immeasurable
and irreversible physical and emotional toll. These pet choking
tragedies cause panic, fear, and anxiety to pet-parents and the
veterinary professionals that try to save their lives. Inspired by
one simple goal of creating more awareness and education for
pet-parents towards eliminating all pet choking incidents in the
USA and around the world, Bow Wow Labs , a national pet wellness
product company, created National Pet Choking Prevention Day to
build a global community of people that share their dedication to
keep pets safe, healthy and happy. Partnering with veterinary
professionals that see and must treat preventable pet choking
incidents every day, including Dr. Judy Morgan, National Pet
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22: National Kissing Day: -- Today's
all about showing your love and improving your health. That's
right, kissing is actually good for you - #wellness. Kissing
relieves stress, burns calories, and benefits your immunity. With
so many perks, we can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to
celebrate, so pucker up! Today, kissing is a form of
communication. We use it to show love, or in some cultures, as a
greeting. The running theory on the evolution of the kiss is based
on our natural instinct to share food - similar to how many
mammals feed their young. Since then, historians believe the
earliest references to kissing traces back to India, with four
major texts in the Vedic Sanskrit literature referencing the
supposed earliest forms of kissing. Dating from 1500 B.C., these
texts describe 'kissing' as the act of rubbing and pressing noses
together. Fast forward to 326 B.C. and kissing became mainstream
thanks to the army of Alexander the Great. After the death of
Alexander, his army spread out - as did the act of kissing. The
kiss went mainstream thanks to the Romans, and as the saying goes,
"do as the Romans do." We'll ignore the part about "when
in Rome," since they took their kissing knowledge and made it
popular around the world. Kissing was used to show friendship back
then, and only if the kiss was "French" did it show
passion. Ancient Roman culture went so far as to create laws
around the act, stating that if a virgin was kissed passionately
in public, she could demand full marriage rights - the Romans
didn't mess around! Fast forward to today and you can see couples
smooching everywhere, without all the scandal, hence why we have a
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22: International Being You Day: -- A day that invites you to celebrate being_YOU! It's time to ditch the self-judgment and have gratitude for yourself. Today we invite you to explore what it means to truly be YOU beyond the projections of society and the need for perfection. It's your day to discover and acknowledge the beauty of you and your unique capabilities. It's also an invitation to celebrate everyone's differences. What if you could ditch the judgment and have gratitude for yourself just for a day? What if you could start going from having a life run on autopilot to one of curiosity, joy, gratitude and presence? On International Being You Day, start the day by celebrating YOU and embrace the differences of everyone around you. In 2021, National Day Calendar and Dr. Dain Heer formed a working relationship to create International Being You Day. This International Day was originally observed on May 22, 2021, but changed to June 22 in 2023. Starting in 2024, International Being You Day will be celebrated on June 22 each year. In the words of Dr. Dain Heer, "What if you, truly being you, are the gift and change this world requires!" In 2011, Dr. Dain Heer wrote a book called Being You, Changing the World. The book is an innovative toolbox for the seekers of the world and has become a bestseller over the years. Today, it translates to over 17 languages, turning into a series of seminars and workshops with over 100 trained facilitators. International Being You Day is a being you movement created by people's demand to be themselves, celebrate their greatness, and embrace their difference. On June 22, we invite everyone in the world to explore, discover, and celebrate each individual's uniqueness, beyond judgment. Dr. Dain Heer is an author, change-maker, speaker and co-creator of Access Consciousness, one of the largest personal development companies practiced in 176 countries. Heer has traveled the world for more than 20 years, sharing his unique insights on happiness, relationships, getting over the yuck, and everything in between! Dr. Heer grew in the inner cities of Los Angeles where he was exposed to constant abuse. Instead of becoming a victim, he chose to use his experiences as a way to inspire people. In his talks and workshops, he provides step by step energetic processes to get people out of the conclusions and judgments that are keeping them stuck in a cycle of no choice and no change. Dr. Heer's hope is these tools will lead others into moments of awe where they have the power to change anything. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/anwa1domelme.html
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22: World Rainforest Day: This day
is set aside to raise awareness about rainforests and also about
all the biotic species that live in them. World Rainforest Day
aims to encourage people to learn more about rainforests and join
efforts to protect and preserve these forests for generations to
come. Rainforests have been disappearing and taking the rich
diversity of flora and fauna with them because of increasing
deforestation and climate change. World Rainforest Day was
instituted to halt this disappearance by reminding people of the
importance of rainforests. World Rainforest Day is observed
throughout the world and aims to educate people about the
importance of rainforests - why they are important and the
diversity of life that lives in them. By educating people, World
Rainforest Day aims to encourage more people to join the effort to
protect and preserve rainforests for future generations.
Rainforests are lush forests that have a continuous tree canopy.
The entire forest is heavily dependent on moisture. Rainforests do
not have any forest fires. Flora, fungi, epiphytes, lianas, and
trees forming a closed canopy, are found in rainforests. Many
popular houseplants like the Pothos and Monstera, are native to
rainforests. A majority of living organisms - birds, animals,
plants, and trees - are native to rainforests. A large number of
species of mammals, reptiles, birds, invertebrates, and amphibians
are found in rainforests. Rainforests are necessary as they are an
important source of freshwater for humans. Additionally, they
absorb carbon dioxide and protect the earth from the effects of
climate change. They are an important natural resource directly
and indirectly. Apart from freshwater and the production of
oxygen, several ingredients used in everyday life and
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1633: Religion: The History Of
Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Christianity: Roman Catholicism:
The Latin Church (Latin: Ecclesia Latina): The Roman Curia: The
Roman Inquisition (Suprema Congregatio Sanctae Romanae Et
Universalis Inquisitionis [Latin: "The Supreme Sacred
Congregation Of The Roman And Universal Inquisition"]): The
Galileo Affair: -- The Roman Inquisition of the Holy See of the
Roman Catholic Church, having made Italian astronomer, physicist,
engineer and polymath Galileo Galilei stand trial on suspicion of
heresy "for holding as true the false doctrine taught by some
that the sun is the center of the world", and after having
been interrogated under the threat of physical torture, is found
guilty of heresy by a panel of theologians, consisting of Melchior
Inchofer, Agostino Oreggi and Zaccaria Pasqualigo, and forced to
recant, in the form he presented it, that the Sun, not the Earth,
was the center of the Universe, and that after heated controversy.
Galileo was prosecuted for his support of heliocentrism, the
astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around
the Sun at the centre of the universe. The sentence of the
Inquisition, issued the same day he was found guilty consisted of
three essential parts: 1) Galileo was found "vehemently
suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that
the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the
Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and
defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary
to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse, and
detest" those opinions; 2) He was sentenced to formal
imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition.[60] On the
following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained
under for the rest of his life; and 3) His offending Dialogue was
banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication
of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in
the future. After a period with the friendly Archbishop
Piccolomini in Siena, Galileo was allowed to return to his villa
at Arcetri near Florence, where he spent the rest of his life
under house arrest. He continued his work on mechanics, and in
1638 he published a scientific book in Holland. His standing would
remain questioned at every turn. In March 1641, Vincentio
Reinieri, a follower and pupil of Galileo, wrote him at Arcetri
that an Inquisitor had recently compelled the author of a book
printed at Florence to change the words "most distinguished
Galileo" to "Galileo, man of noted name". On the
carefully chosen date of Halloween 1992 - 369 years later (1 year
less than 360) - Pope John Paul II at last acknowledged that the
Roman Catholic Church had erred in condemning Galileo for
asserting that the Earth revolves around the Sun, saying that the
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1812 [O.S. June] 10, 1812: The
Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The
Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French
Revolution: The French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars (The
Great French War) (The French Revolutionary Wars, The Napoleonic
Wars): The Napoleonic Wars: The French Invasion Of Russia (The
Russian Campaign, The Patriotic War Of 1812): The 1812 French
Declaration Of War On Russia: -- The First French Empire declares
war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion two days later. The
1812 French Declaration Of war On Russia was presented in a
diplomatic note by French ambassador Jacques Lauriston to Russian
Foreign Minister Alexander Saltykov in Saint Petersburg. The note,
preceded by two years of deteriorating French-Russian relations,
stated that the request for passports by Russian ambassador
Alexander Kurakin meant a severance of diplomatic relations and
that Napoleon "from now on considers himself at war with
Russia". As on June 22, 2026, mainstream Russian
historiography continues its often maintained position that the
French invasion of Russia was undeclared. On June 24, 1812,
Napoleon's Grande Armee crossed the Neman river in an attempt to
engage and defeat the Russian army, beginning the historic
invasion of Russia. Known in Russia as the Patriotic War Of 1812
and in France as the Russian Campaign, it was a campaign by which
Napoleon hoped to compel Tsar Alexander I of Russia to cease
trading with British merchants through proxies in an effort to
pressure the United Kingdom to sue for peace. The official
political aim of the campaign was to liberate Poland from the
threat of Russia. Napoleon named the campaign the Second Polish
War to gain favor with the Poles and provide a political pretext
for his actions. The Grande Armee was a very large force,
numbering 680,000 soldiers (including 300,000 of French
departments). It was the largest army ever assembled in the
history of warfare up to that point. Through a series of long
marches Napoleon pushed the army rapidly through Western Russia in
an attempt to bring the Russian army to battle, winning a number
of minor engagements and a major battle at Smolensk in August.
Napoleon hoped the battle would win the war for him, but the
Russian army slipped away and continued the retreat, leaving
Smolensk to burn. French plans to quarter at Smolensk were
abandoned, and Napoleon pressed his army on after the Russians. As
the Russian army fell back, the Cossacks applied scorched-earth
tactics, burning down villages, towns and crops and forcing the
French to rely on a supply system that was incapable of feeding
the large army in the field. The Russian army retreated into
Russia for almost three months. In response to the loss of
territory, the commander of the Russian army, Field Marshal
Barclay, was replaced by Prince Mikhail Kutuzov on 29 August. On 7
September, the French caught up with the Russian army which had
dug itself in on hillsides before a small town called Borodino,
seventy miles west of Moscow. The battle that followed was the
bloodiest single-day action of the Napoleonic Wars, with 72,000
casualties, and a narrow French victory. The Russian army withdrew
the following day, leaving the French without the decisive victory
Napoleon sought. A week later, Napoleon entered Moscow, which the
Russians had abandoned and burned. The loss of Moscow did not
compel Alexander I to sue for peace, and both sides were aware
that Napoleon's position grew worse with each passing day.
Napoleon stayed on in Moscow for a month, waiting for a peace
offer that never came. On 19 October, Napoleon moved his army out
southwest toward Kaluga, where Kutuzov was encamped with the
Russian army. After an inconclusive battle at Maloyaroslavets,
Napoleon continued the retreat. In the weeks that followed the
Grande Armee starved and suffered from the onset of the Russian
Winter. Lack of food and fodder for the horses, hypothermia from
the bitter cold and persistent attacks upon isolated troops from
Russian peasants and Cossacks led to great losses in men, and a
general loss of discipline and cohesion in the army. More fighting
at Vyazma and Krasnoi resulted in further losses for the French.
When the remnants of Napoleon's main army crossed the Berezina
River in late November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained;
the Grande Armee had lost some 380,000 men dead and 100,000
captured. Following the crossing of the Berezina, Napoleon left
the army after much urging from his advisors and with the
unanimous approval of his Marshals. He returned to Paris by
carriage and sledge to protect his position as Emperor and to
raise more forces to resist the advancing Russians. The campaign
effectively ended on 14 December 1812, not quite six months from
its outset, with the last French troops leaving Russian soil. The
campaign was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. It was the
greatest and bloodiest of the Napoleonic campaigns, involving more
than 1.5 million soldiers, with over 500,000 French and 400,000
Russian casualties. The reputation of Napoleon was severely
shaken, and French hegemony in Europe was dramatically weakened.
The Grande Armee, made up of French and allied invasion forces,
was reduced to a fraction of its initial strength. These events
triggered a major shift in European politics. France's ally
Prussia, soon followed by Austria, broke their imposed alliance
with France and switched sides. This triggered the War Of The
Sixth Coalition, sometimes known in Germany as the War of
Liberation, a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, the United
Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and a number of German states
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1815: The Age Of Enlightenment
(The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The
Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The French
Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars (The Great French War) (The
French Revolutionary Wars, The Napoleonic Wars): The Napoleonic
Wars: The Coalition Wars: The Hundred Days (The War Of The Seventh
Coalition): The Waterloo Campaign: The Battle Of Waterloo:
Napoleon's Abdications Of The French Throne: Napoleon's Second
Abdication Of The French Throne: -- Facing insurmountable military
opposition and political pressure from the French legislature -
particularly the Chamber of Deputies - Napoleon abdicates the
French Throne for the second of two times in favor of his son,
Napoleon II (though the boy never ruled), marking the definitive
end of his reign and the Napoleonic era. This followed his
dramatic return from exile on Elba in March 1815 - a period known
as the Hundred Days - and culminated in his defeat at the Battle
of Waterloo on June 18. The Provisional Government, formed under
the Charter of 1815, proclaimed his abdication to France and the
world. After returning from exile on Elba on March 20, 1815,
Napoleon reclaimed power in France during the period known as the
Hundred Days. His swift march to Paris reinstated him as Emperor,
forcing King Louis XVIII to flee. However, his renewed rule was
short-lived, as the Seventh Coalition, led by the Duke of
Wellington and Prussian General Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher,
decisively defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18,
1815, shattering his hopes of maintaining the empire. The French
legislative bodies, particularly the Chamber of Deputies, demanded
his abdication to prevent further bloodshed and to negotiate peace
with the advancing coalition forces. Although Napoleon initially
considered a coup d'etat to retain power, he ultimately abandoned
the idea. After leaving Paris on June 25, Napoleon hoped to reach
the United States, but the Royal Navy blocked his escape. He
surrendered to Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland aboard HMS
Bellerophon. The British refused him entry to England and arranged
his exile to the remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helena,
where he remained under British supervision until his death in
1821. Napoleon's abdication ended the Napoleonic Wars and led to
the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy with Louis XVIII returning
to the throne. It also paved the way for the Congress of Vienna,
which sought to restore stability and balance of power in Europe.
The abdication marked a watershed moment, reshaping the political
landscape and signaling the end of an era characterized by
Napoleon's military genius and ambitious reforms. Napoleon's
second abdication underscored the challenges of maintaining a vast
empire against unified opposition. While his military and
administrative reforms left a lasting impact on France and Europe,
the abdication itself symbolized the limits of personal power in
the face of overwhelming oppositon. Napoleon's first abdication
occurred on April 6, 1814, at Fontainebleau after the Allied
forces captured Paris and defeated his armies in the French
campaign and the German campaign, including the decisive Battle of
Leipzig. The Treaty of Fontainebleau, signed on April 11, 1814,
allowed him to retain the title of Emperor and granted him
sovereignty over the island of Elba with an annual income of two
million francs and a small guard. This abdication marked the end
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1848: The Age Of Enlightenment
(The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The
Revolutions Of 1848 (The Springtime Of The Peoples, The Springtime
Of Nations): France: The History Of France: The Modern History Of
France: Rebellions In France: Labor Disputes In France: The June
Days Uprising (French: Les Journees De Juin): -- An uprising
staged by French civilians begins in response to plans to close
the National Workshops that had been created by the Second
Republic in order to provide work and a minimal source of income
for the unemployed. Over 10,000 people were either killed or
injured, while 4,000 insurgents were deported to French Algeria.
The uprising marked the end of the hopes of a "Democratic and
Social Republic" (Republique democratique et sociale) and the
victory of the liberals over the Radical Republicans. On June 25,
1948, "The Barricades On Rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt"
("The Barricades On The Rue Faubourg-Du-Temple"), the
first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story, was published as
an engraving in the July 1-8, 1848 edition of L'Illustration, a
French illustrated weekly newspaper published in Paris, France.
This marked the beginning of the history of photojournallism, a
form of journalism that uses images to tell a news story. The June
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June 22, 1861: #BOTD: #HBD! Maximilian
Von Spee, Danish-German admiral of the Kaiserliche Marine
(Imperial Navy) (d. December 8, 1914) is #born Maximilian Johannes
Maria Hubert Reichsgraf in Copenhagen, Denmark. Spee entered the
navy in 1878 and served in a variety of roles and locations,
including on a colonial gunboat in German West Africa in the
1880s, the East Africa Squadron in the late 1890s, and as
commander of several warships in the main German fleet in the
early 1900s. During his time in Germany in the late 1880s and
early 1890s, he married his wife, Margareta, and had three
children, his sons Heinrich and Otto and his daughter Huberta. By
1912, he had returned to the East Asia Squadron as its commander,
and was promoted to the rank of Vizeadmiral (Vice Admiral) the
following year. He famously commanded during World War I the
German East Asia Squadron, which operated mainly in the Pacific
Ocean between the mid-1890s and 1914. It was Germany's only major
"blue water" or overseas naval formation independent of
home ports in Germany. Maximilian Von Spee was killed in World War
I aged 53 during The Battle Of The Falkland Islands while
commanding the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the South
Atlantic, when his armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst was sunk by a
naval squadron of Britain's Royal Navy. Von Spee went down with
the ship; Spee's two sons, who happened to be serving on two of
his ships, were also killed, along with about 2,200 other men. The
discovery of the Scharnhorstwreck was announced in December 2019
by Mensun Bound. Following the defeat of The Royal Navy at the
Battle Of Coronel on November 1, the British sent a large force to
track down and destroy the victorious German cruiser squadron.
Admiral Von Spee - commanding the German squadron of two armoured
cruisers, SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the light cruisers SMS
Nurnberg, Dresden and Leipzig, and three auxiliaries, the colliers
SS Baden, SS Santa Isabel, and SS Seydlitz - attempted to raid the
British naval supply base at Stanley in the Falkland Islands. The
superior British squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Doveton
Sturdee - consisting of the powerful battlecruisers HMS Invincible
and Inflexible, the armoured cruisers HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall and
Kent, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Macedonia and the light
cruisers HMS Bristol and Glasgow - had arrived in the port the day
before. Visibility was at its maximum, the sea was placid with a
gentle breeze from the northwest, and the day was bright and
sunny. The vanguard cruisers of the German squadron were detected
early. By nine o'clock that morning the British battlecruisers and
cruisers were in hot pursuit of the German vessels, surprising
them and putting them to flight in line abreast to the southeast.
All except the light cruisers SMS Dresden and SMS Leipzig were
hunted down and sunk. The battle is commemorated every year on
December 8 in the Falkland Islands as Battle Day, a public
holiday. Spee was hailed as a hero in Germany, and several ships
were named in his honor, including the heavy cruiser Admiral Graf
Spee built in the 1930s, which the Germans called a "Panzerschiff"
(armored ship) and British called a "pocket battleship".
The British defeated the Admiral Graf Spee during in the Battle Of
The River Plate, the first naval battle in the Second World War
and the first one of the Battle of the Atlantic in South American
waters. The damaged Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled in Montevideo
Harbor by her captain Hans Langsdorff rather than face the
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June 22, 1898: #BOTD: #HBD! Erich Maria
Remarque, German-Swiss soldier, author and translator (d.
September 25, 1970) is #born Erich Paul Remark in the German city
of Osnabruck. Remarque was a novelist who created many works about
the terror of war. His best known novel All Quiet on the Western
Front (1928), about German soldiers in the First World War, was
made into an Oscar-winning film. His book made him an enemy of the
Nazis, who burned many of his works. In 1958, he married Paulette
Goddard, Charles Chaplin's former wife and leading lady in
Chaplin's anti-Nazi film The Great Dictator, who remained his wife
until his death. Erich Maria Remarque died of heart failure at the
age of 72 in Locarno, Switzerland. His body was buried in the
Ronco Cemetery in Ronco, Ticino, Switzerland. Paulette Goddard,
Remarque's wife, died in 1990, and her body was interred next to
her husband's. She left a bequest of 20M USD to New York
University for an institute for European studies, which is named
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June 22, 1903: #BOTD: John Dillinger ,
American bank robber and gangster (d. July 22, 1934) is #born John
Herbert Dillinger at 2053 Cooper Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. In
1934, he was shot and killed by FBI agents as he left Chicago's
Biograph Movie Theater after watching the film Manhattan Melodrama
starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, betrayed by the "Lady in
Red" Ana Cumpanas, the owner of the brothel where Dillinger
had sought refuge at the time. Dillinger was the first criminal
labeled by the FBI as "Public Enemy No. 1." John Herbert
Dillinger came up in the Depression-era United States. After
spending nine years (1924-1933) in prison, Dillinger went on a
deadly crime spree in the states of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa with a group of men known as the
Dillinger Gang or Terror Gang, which was accused of robbing 24
banks and four police stations, among other activities. Dillinger
escaped from jail twice. He was also charged with, but never
convicted of, the murder of an East Chicago, Indiana, police
officer who shot Dillinger in his bullet-proof vest during a
shootout, prompting him to return fire; despite his infamy, it was
Dillinger's only homicide charge. He courted publicity and the
media of his time ran exaggerated accounts of his bravado and
colorful personality, styling him as a Robin Hood figure. In
response, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover developed a more
sophisticated Bureau as a weapon against organized crime, using
Dillinger and his gang as his campaign platform. After evading
police in four states for almost a year, Dillinger was wounded and
returned to his father's home to recover. He returned to Chicago
in July 1934 and met his end at the hands of police and federal
agents who were informed of his whereabouts by Ana Cumpanas, known
thereafter as "The Lady In Red". On July 22, 1934, the
police and the Division of Investigation closed in on the Biograph
Theater. Federal agents, led by Melvin Purvis and Samuel P.
Cowley, moved to arrest Dillinger as he exited the theater. He
drew a Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket and attempted to flee, but he
was killed. This was ruled as a justifiable homicide. He is buried
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June 22, 1906: #BOTD: #HBD! Billy Wilder,
Austrian-born American director, producer, screenwriter and
filmmaker (d. March 27, 2002) is #born Samuel Wilder to a family
of Polish Jews in Sucha Beskidzka, a small town which, at that
time, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His career in
Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the
most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood
cinema. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director
eight times, winning twice, and for a screenplay Academy Award 13
times, winning three times. Wilder became a screenwriter while
living in Berlin. The rise of the Nazi Party and antisemitism in
Germany saw him move to Paris. He then moved to Hollywood in 1933,
and had a major hit when he, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch
wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated film
Ninotchka (1939). Wilder established his directorial reputation
and received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best
Director with the film noir Double Indemnity (1944), based on the
novel by James M Cain with a screenplay by Wilder and Raymond
Chandler. Wilder won the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy
Awards for the film adaptation of the novel The Lost Weekend
(1945), which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In the
1950s, Wilder directed and co-wrote a string of critically
acclaimed films, including the Hollywood drama Sunset Boulevard
(1950), for which he won his second screenplay Academy Award; Ace
in the Hole (1951), Stalag 17 (1953) and Sabrina (1954). Wilder
directed and co-wrote three films in 1957, including The Spirit of
St. Louis, Love in the Afternoon and Witness for the Prosecution.
Wilder directed Marilyn Monroe in two films, The Seven Year Itch
(1955) and Some Like It Hot (1959). In 1960, Wilder co-wrote,
directed and produced the critically acclaimed film The Apartment.
It won Wilder Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and
Best Original Screenplay. Beginning with Some Like It Hot and The
Apartment, he made seven films with Jack Lemmon, four of which
co-starred Walter Matthau; the threesome's first collaboration was
The Fortune Cookie (1966). Other notable films Wilder directed
include One, Two, Three (1961), Irma la Douce (1963), Kiss Me,
Stupid (1964) and Avanti! (1972). Wilder directed fourteen actors
in Oscar-nominated performances. Wilder received various honors
over his distinguished career between the late 1980s and 1990s. He
received the British Academy Film Award Fellowship Award, the
Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award, the
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, and the Producers
Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. Double Indemnity,
Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment are included
in the AFI's greatest American films of all time. As of 2019,
seven of his films are preserved in the United States National
Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally,
historically or aesthetically significant". Anthony Lane
writes that Double Indemnity, The Seven Year Itch, Sunset
Boulevard and The Apartment are "part of the lexicon of
moviegoing" and that Some Like It Hot is a "national
treasure." Roger Ebert asked, "Of all the great
directors of Hollywood's golden age, has anybody made more films
that are as fresh and entertaining to this day as Billy
Wilder's?...And who else can field three contenders among the
greatest closing lines of all time?", citing the closing
lines of Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot, and The Apartment.
Billy Wilder died of pneumonia in Beverly Hills, California, aged
95. He is buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park
and Mortuary, a reference to the last line of Some Like It Hot.
His gravestone bears the epitaph "I'M A WRITER BUT THEN
NOBODY'S PERFECT", a paraphrase of the last line of Some Like
It Hot; A French newspaper, Le Monde, titled its front-page
obituary: "Billy Wilder is dead. Nobody is perfect". On
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June 22, 1909: #BOTD: #HBD! Katherine
Dunham, African American dancer, choreographer and beauty, creator
of the Dunham Technique, author, educator, anthropologist,
entrepreneur, social activist, and beauty (d. May 21, 2006) is
#born Katherine Mary Dunham in a Chicago. Dunham had one of the
most successful dance careers in African American and European
theater of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company
for many years. She has been called the "matriarch and queen
mother of black dance." Her father, Albert Millard Dunham,
was a descendant of slaves from West Africa and Madagascar, and
her mother, Fanny June Dunham, was of American Indian, French
Canadian, English and probably African ancestry. While a student
at the University of Chicago, Dunham also performed as a dancer
and ran a dance school, and earned an early bachelor's degree in
anthropology. Receiving a fellowship, she went to the Caribbean to
study dance and ethnography. She later returned to graduate school
and submitted a master's thesis in anthropology. She did not
complete the other requirements for that degree, however, she
realized that her professional calling was performance. At the
height of her career in the 1940s and 1950s, Dunham was renowned
throughout Europe and Latin America and was widely popular in the
United States. The Washington Post called her "dancer
Katherine the Great." For almost 30 years she maintained the
Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only self-supported American
black dance troupe at that time, and had successful runs on
Broadway and in other major American cities. Over her long career,
she choreographed more than ninety individual dances. Dunham was
an innovator in African American modern dance as well as a leader
in the field of dance anthropology, or ethnochoreology. She also
developed the Dunham Technique, a method of movement to support
her dance works. Just before Alvin Ailey died in 1989, he produced
a tribute to her in 1987-88 at Carnegie Hall with his American
Dance Theater, entitled The Magic of Katherine Dunham; it was the
Katherine Dunham Dance Company's 1946 performance at the Los
Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium, his first experience with concert
dance, that awakened his interest in dancing. Katherine Dunham
died in her sleep from natural causes at a Manhattan, New York
City assisted-living facility, aged 96. Her remains were cremated,
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1911: #Coronations: Coronation
Of George V And Mary: George V and his wife Mary Of Teck are
crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, and the British Dominions, and as Emperor and Empress of
India. The coronation took place at Westminster Abbey, London.
This was the second of four such events held during the 20th
century, and the last to be attended by royal representatives of
the great continental European empires. George V had become King
Of The United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII, on
May 6, 1910. ========= George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert;
June 3, 1865 - January 20, 1936) was King Of The United Kingdom
And The British Dominions, and Emperor Of India, until his death
in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria,
George was third in the line of succession behind his father,
Albert Edward, Prince Of Wales, and his own elder brother, Prince
Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1891, George served in the Royal Navy,
until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put
him directly in line for the throne. On the death of his
grandmother in 1901, George's father became King-Emperor of the
British Empire as Edward VII, and George was created Prince Of
Wales. He succeeded his father in 1910. He was the only Emperor Of
India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar, an Indian imperial
style mass assembly organised by the British at Coronation Park,
Delhi, India, to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of
India. George V's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism,
fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence
movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape.
The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected
British House Of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a
result of the First World War (1914-1918), the empires of his
first cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II Of
Germany fell, while the British Empire expanded to its greatest
effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the
House Of Windsor, which he renamed from the House Of Saxe-Coburg
And Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. In 1924 he
appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of
Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate,
independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations. He had
smoking-related health problems throughout much of his later reign
and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII.
========= Mary Of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline
Claudine Agnes; May 26, 1867 - March 24, 1953) was Queen of the
United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India,
from May 6, 1910 until January 29, 1936 as the wife of
King-Emperor George V. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Mary
was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a German nobleman, and
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King
George III and a minor member of the British royal family. She was
informally known as "May", after the month of her birth.
At the age of 24, she was betrothed to her second cousin once
removed Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the
eldest son of the Prince Of Wales, but six weeks after the
announcement of the engagement, he died unexpectedly during an
influenza pandemic. The following year, she became engaged to
Albert Victor's only surviving brother, George, who subsequently
became king. Before her husband's accession, she was successively
Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales. As
queen consort from 1910, Mary supported her husband through the
First World War, his ill health, and major political changes
arising from the aftermath of the war. After George's death in
1936, she became queen mother when her eldest son, Edward VIII,
ascended the throne. To her dismay, he abdicated later the same
year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis
Simpson. She supported her second son, George VI, until his death
in 1952. She died the following year, during the reign of her
granddaughter Elizabeth II, who had not yet been crowned. Among
much else, an ocean liner, a battlecruiser, and a university were
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Paul Frees,
American actor, voice actor, comedian, impressionist and
vaudevillian, best known as the voice of Boris Badenov in The
Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (d. November 2, 1986) is #born Solomon
Hersh Frees into a Latvian Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois. He
is also known for his voice work on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Walter
Lantz, Rankin/Bass, and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons during the
Golden Age of Animation. Mel Blanc, a contemporary voice actor,
said Frees was known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices",
even though the appellation was bestowed on Blanc himself. He had
an unusually wide four-octave voice range that would enable him to
voice everything from the thundering basso profundo of the unseen
"Ghost Host" in the Haunted Mansion attraction at
Disneyland in California and at Walt Disney World in Florida to
the voice of the farmer who educates the Little Green Sprout
(voiced by Ike Eisenmann) about vegetable products of the Jolly
Green Giant in the Green Giant vegetable commercials. In the
1930s, Frees first appeared in vaudeville as an impressionist,
under the name Buddy Green. He began his career on radio in 1942
and remained active for more than 40 years. During that time, he
was involved in more than 250 films, cartoons and TV appearances;
as was the case for many voice actors of the time, his appearances
were often uncredited. Frees's early radio career was cut short
when he was drafted into the United States Army during World War
II where he fought at Normandy, France on D-Day. He was wounded in
action and was returned to the United States for a year of
recuperation. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute under the
G.I. Bill. When his first wife's health failed, he decided to drop
out and return to radio work. He appeared frequently on Hollywood
radio series, including Escape, playing lead roles and alternating
with William Conrad as the opening announcer of Suspense in the
late 1940s, and parts on Gunsmoke (doing an impersonation of
Howard McNear as Doc Adams for at least one episode, "The
Cast"), and Crime Classics. One of his few starring roles in
this medium was as Jethro Dumont/Green Lama in the 1949 series The
Green Lama, as well as a syndicated anthology series The Player,
in which Frees narrated and played all the parts. Frees was often
called upon in the 1950s and 1960s to "re-loop" the
dialogue of other actors, often to correct for foreign accents,
lack of English proficiency, or poor line readings by
non-professionals. These dubs extended from a few lines to entire
roles. This can be noticed rather clearly in the films Grand Prix
(as Izo Yamura) and Midway where Frees reads for Toshiro Mifune's
performances as Admiral Yamamoto; or in the film Some Like It Hot,
in which Frees provides the voice of funeral director Mozzarella
as well as much of the falsetto voice for Tony Curtis' female
character Josephine. Frees also dubbed the entire role of Eddie in
the Disney film The Ugly Dachshund, replacing actor Dick Wessel,
who had died of a sudden heart attack after completion of
principal photography. Frees also dubbed Humphrey Bogart in his
final film The Harder They Fall. Bogart was suffering at the time
from what would be diagnosed as esophageal cancer and thus could
barely be heard in some takes, hence the need for Frees to dub in
his voice. He also voiced the cars in the comedy The Great Race.
Unlike many voice actors who did most of their work for one
studio, Frees worked extensively with at least nine of the major
animation production companies of the 20th century: Walt Disney
Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA,
Hanna-Barbera Productions, Filmation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Jay Ward Productions, Rankin/Bass,
and Ruby-Spears. For the last two years of his life, Frees
suffered from multiple ailments, including arthritis, diabetes,
and loss of vision, and had mentioned to friends that he was in
near constant pain. Frees died at his home in Tiburon, California
on November 2, 1986, at the age of 66, from a self-administered
overdose of pain medication. Though the official cause of death is
listed as suicide, his agent issued a press release stating that
he died from heart failure. Frees was survived by his son and
daughter, and by Marlow, who had moved to Mesa, Arizona. His body
was cremated and his ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean. On
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June 22, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! Joseph Papp,
American director and producer (d. October 31, 1991) is #born
Joseph Papirofsky in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Jewish
immigrants from Russia Yetta (nee Miritch), a seamstress, and
Samuel Papirofsky, a trunkmaker. He established The Public Theater
in what had been the Astor Library Building in lower Manhattan.
There, Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new
plays and musicals. Among numerous examples of these were the
works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shanges For Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Charles Gordones No
Place to Be Somebody (the first off-Broadway play to win the
Pulitzer Prize), and Papps production of Michael Bennetts Pulitzer
Prize-winning musical, A Chorus Line. Papp also founded
Shakespeare in the Park, helped to develop other off-Broadway
theatres and worked to preserve the historic Broadway Theatre
District. Joseph Papp died of prostate cancer at age 70, on
October 31, 1991. He is buried in the Baron Hirsch Cemetery on
Staten Island. His son, Tony, died of complications of AIDS mere
months before Joseph Papp's death. Papp is survived by his wife
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June 22, 1932: #BOTD: #HBD! Prunella
Scales, English actress best known for her role as Basil Fawlty's
bossy wife Sybil in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers (d. October 27,
2025) is #born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth in Sutton
Abinger, Surrey, South East England. Prunella Margaret Rumney West
Scales CBE is also known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II
in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan
Bennett (for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award); and for
the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014-2021), in which
she travels on canal barges and narrowboats with her husband,
fellow actor and CBE Timothy West. Prunella Scales died aged 93 at
her home in London, England. Tributes followed from across the
entertainment industry and beyond: John Cleese, who played her
onscreen husband in Fawlty Towers, and on whose 86th birthday she
died, praised her as "a really wonderful comic actress";
according to her sons, she had been watching the sitcom the day
before her death. BBC comedy director Jon Petrie called her "a
national treasure". Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth remembered
her as "a funny, intelligent, gifted human being", and
the Alzheimer's Society commended her openness about living with
dementia, describing her as "an inspiration". On October
28, 2025, the day Scales's death was publicly announced, BBC One
rebroadcast the Fawlty Towers episode "The Builders"
(major renovations are made to the lobby while the Fawltys are
out, but when a misreading causes the incompetent builders to mess
it up spectacularly, Basil must try to remedy the situation before
Sybil finds out); the episode ended with a dedication to her
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June 22, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Kris
Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
(d. September 28, 2024) is #born Kristoffer Kristofferson in
Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann (nee Ashbrook) and Lars Henry
Kristofferson, a U.S. Army Air Corps officer (later a U.S. Air
Force major general). Among his songwriting credits are the songs
"Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times",
"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It
Through the Night", all of which were hits for other artists.
Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with
Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985,
Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings,
Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music
supergroup The Highwaymen, and formed a key creative force in the
outlaw country music movement that eschewed the Nashville music
machine in favor of independent songwriting and producing. In
2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame. As an actor, he is known for his roles in Pat Garrett &
Billy The Kid (1973), Blume in Love (1973), Alice Doesn't Live
Here Anymore (1974), A Star Is Born (1976) (which earned him a
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), Convoy (1978), Heaven's Gate
(1980) and Blade (1998). In 1961, Kristofferson married his
longtime girlfriend, Frances "Fran" Mavia Beer,
eventually divorcing. Kristofferson briefly dated Janis Joplin
before her death in October 1970; he wrote the song "Me And
Bobby McGee", released by Janis Joplin posthumously, the
second posthumously released No. 1 single in U.S. chart history
after "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis
Redding. His second marriage was to singer Rita Coolidge in 1973,
ending in divorce by 1980. Kristofferson then married Lisa Meyers
in 1983, to whom he remained married for the rest of his life.
Kristofferson and Meyers owned a home in Los Flores Canyon in
Malibu, California, and maintain a residence in Hana on the island
of Maui. Kristofferson had eight children from his three
marriages: two from his first marriage to Fran Beer; one from his
second marriage to Rita Coolidge and five from his marriage to his
third wife, Lisa (nee Meyers) Kristofferson. Kristofferson died at
his home in Maui, Hawaii, aged 88. Kristofferson said that he
would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on
the Wire" on his tombstone: "Like a bird on the wire |
Like a drunk in a midnight choir | I have tried in my way to be
free". Despite this statement, his remains were cremated; at
his request, he had no public funeral, but rather a private
service, after which his ashes were retained by his widow Lisa
Meyers. # KrisKristofferson #Singers #Songwriters
#SingerSongwriters #Guitarists #Actors #TheHighwaymen
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June 22, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Chris
Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records, is
#born Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell in Westminster, London,
England. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which
Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most
responsible for turning the world on to reggae music. He forged
the careers of Bob Marley, Grace Jones, U2 and other diverse
high-profile acts. He has produced many seminal albums, including
Marley's Catch A Fire and Uprising, and The B-52's' self-titled
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(#JCKaelin here: At the height of the "master race" theory in Nazi Germany, German boxer Max Schmeling fought African American Joe Louis for the World Heavyweight Championship. Joe Louis beat him *in one round*! Despite all the propaganda nonsense that surrounded this fight on the German side, and the animosity of the American Black community against this representative of the "master race" theory, Schmeling and Louis thereafter became life-long friends; indeed, Louis' funeral was paid for in part by Schmeling, who also acted as a Louis' pallbearer. This only goes to show that both Gandhi and MLK were right: that non-violent resistance can and does change not only conditions, but hearts : ) ) ========= June 22, 1938: Sports: The History Of Sports: The History Of Sports In The United States: The History Of Boxing: The History Of Heavyweight Boxing: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling (Max Schmeling vs. Joe Louis): Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling Second Fight (Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling 1938): -- Joe Louis defeats Max Schmeling in one round, one year from the day Louis had won the world Heavyweight title, in a sold-out Yankee Stadium in New York City. Among the more than 70,000 fans in attendance were Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, and J. Edgar Hoover. The fight drew gate receipts of just over 1M USD (equivalent to 19.5M USD in 2021). 70 million listened on radio in the U.S., and over 100 million around the world. Schmeling came out of his corner trying to utilize the same style that got him the victory in their first fight, with a straight-standing posture and his left hand prepared to begin jabbing. Louis' strategy, however, had been to get the fight over early. Before the fight, he mentioned to his trainer Jack "Chappie" Blackburn that he would devote all his energy to the first three rounds, and even told sportswriter Jimmy Cannon that he predicted a knockout in one. After only a few seconds of feinting, Louis unleashed a tireless barrage on Schmeling. Referee Arthur Donovan stopped action for the first time just over one minute and a half into the fight after Louis connected on five left hooks and a body blow to Schmeling's lower left which had him audibly crying in pain. After sending Louis briefly to his corner, Donovan quickly resumed action, after which Louis went on the attack again, immediately felling the German with a right hook to the face. Schmeling went down this time, arising on the count of three. Louis then resumed his barrage, this time focusing on Schmeling's head. After connecting on three clean shots to Schmeling's jaw, the German fell to the canvas again, arising at the count of two. With Schmeling having few defenses left at this point, Louis connected at will, sending Schmeling to the canvas for the third time in short order, this time near the ring's center. Schmeling's cornerman Max Machon threw a towel in the ring - although, under New York state rules, this did not end the fight. Machon was therefore forced to enter the ring at the count of eight, at which point Donovan had already declared the fight over. Louis was the winner and world Heavyweight champion, by a technical knockout, two minutes and four seconds into the first round. In all, Louis had thrown 41 punches in the fight, 31 of which landed solidly. Schmeling, by contrast, had been able to throw only two punches. Soundly defeated, Schmeling had to be admitted to Polyclinic Hospital for ten days. During his stay, it was discovered that Louis had cracked several vertebrae in Schmeling's back. Schmeling and his handlers complained after the bout that Louis' initial volley had included an illegal kidney punch, and even refused Louis' visitation at the hospital. The claim resounded hollowly in the media, however, and they eventually chose not to file a formal complaint. Despite this squabbling from Schmeling's handlers, Schmeling and Louis thereafter became life-long friends; Louis' funeral was paid for in part by Schmeling, who also acted as a Louis' pallbearer. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/grde7padosem.html
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June 22, 1940: The European Civil War:
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World War II): The Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German:
Westfeldzug], The French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug;
French: Campagne De France], The Fall Of France): Fall Rot
(German: "Case Red"): The Armistice Of 22 June 1940 (The
Second Armistice At Compiegne, The Second Compiegne Armistice): --
France is forced to sign the Second Compiegne Armistice with
Germany at 18:36 in the same rail carriage, at Hitler's
insistence, where the Germans had signed the 1918 armistice, the
Compiegne Wagon. It was signed near Compiegne, France by officials
of Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic. Signatories for
Germany included Wilhelm Keitel, a senior military officer of the
Wehrmacht (the German armed forces), while those on the French
side held lower ranks, including general Charles Huntziger.
Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France (May
10 - June 25, 1940) during World War II, this armistice
established a German occupation zone in Northern and Western
France that encompassed about three-fifths of France's European
territory, including all English Channel and Atlantic Ocean ports.
The remainder of the country was to be left unoccupied, although
the new regime that replaced the Third Republic was mutually
recognised as the legitimate government of all of Metropolitan
France except Alsace-Lorraine. The French were also permitted to
retain control of all of their non-European territories. Adolf
Hitler deliberately chose Compiegne Forest as the site to sign the
armistice because of its symbolic role as the site of the
Armistice of November 11, 1918 that signaled the end of World War
I with Germany's surrender. The Compiegne Wagon, which had been
dragged out of its protective building and returned to the
signing-place several metres away for what Hitler intended to be
an insult during the signing of the armistice, was subsequently
taken to Berlin and put on displayed there beginning on July 5,
first next to the Brandenburg gates, later on the The Museum
Island (German: Museumsinsel), the museum complex on the northern
part of the Spree Island in the historic heart of Berlin. In 1944,
the wagon was sent to Thuringia in central Germany. Then it moved
to Ruhla and later Gotha Crawinkel, near a huge tunnel system.
There it was destroyed in March 1945 by the SS with fire and/or
dynamite, in the face of the advancing U.S. Army. However, some SS
veterans and civilian eyewitnesses claim that the wagon had been
destroyed by air attack near Ohrdruf while still in Thuringia in
April 1944. Even so, it is generally believed the wagon was
destroyed in 1945 by the SS. Today, people who come to the
Crawinkel commune have a chance to visit the exact site where in
1945 the famous carriage burned out, a site marked with a small
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1941: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great
Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): Operation Barbarossa: --
Starting at 3:15 am, some 3.2 million German soldiers plunge
headlong into Russia across an 1,800-mile front in a major turing
point of World War II. At 7 am that morning, a proclamation from
Hitler to the German people announced, "At this moment a
march is taking place that, for its extent, compares with the
greatest the world has ever seen...". Operation Barbarossa
(German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) stemmed from Nazi Germany's
ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it
could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs, especially Poles,
as a slave-labour force for the Axis war effort, and to seize the
oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of
Soviet territories. In the two years leading up to the invasion,
Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic pacts
for strategic purposes. Nevertheless, the German High Command
began planning an invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1940 (under
the codename Operation Otto), which Adolf Hitler authorized on 18
December 1940. Over the course of the operation, about four
million Axis powers personnel, the largest invasion force in the
history of warfare, invaded the western Soviet Union along a
2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front. In addition to troops, the
Wehrmacht employed some 600,000 motor vehicles, and between
600,000 and 700,000 horses for non-combat operations. The
offensive marked an escalation of the war, both geographically and
in the formation of the Allied coalition. Operationally, German
forces achieved major victories and occupied some of the most
important economic areas of the Soviet Union, mainly in the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and inflicted, as well as
sustained, heavy casualties. Despite these Axis successes, the
German offensive stalled in the Battle Of Moscow and the
subsequent Soviet winter counteroffensive pushed German troops
back. The Red Army absorbed the Wehrmacht's strongest blows and
forced the unprepared Germans into a war of attrition. The
Wehrmacht never again mounted a simultaneous offensive along the
entire Eastern front. The failure of the operation drove Hitler to
demand further operations of increasingly limited scope inside the
Soviet Union, such as Case Blue in 1942 and Operation Citadel in
1943 - all of which eventually failed. The failure of Operation
Barbarossa proved a turning point in the fortunes of the Third
Reich. Most importantly, the operation opened up the Eastern
Front, in which more forces were committed than in any other
theater of war in world history. The Eastern Front became the site
of some of the largest battles, most horrific atrocities, and
highest casualties for Soviet and Axis units alike, all of which
influenced the course of both World War II and the subsequent
history of the 20th century. The German armies captured 5,000,000
Red Army troops, who were denied the protection guaranteed by the
Hague Conventions and the 1929 Geneva Convention. A majority of
Red Army POWs never returned alive. The Nazis deliberately starved
to death, or otherwise killed, 3.3 million prisoners, as well as a
huge number of civilians through the "Hunger Plan" that
aimed at largely replacing the Slavic population with German
settlers. Einsatzgruppen death squads and gassing operations
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1942: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The North African Campaign: The Western Desert
Campaign (The Desert War): Tobruk in World War II: The Axis
Capture Of Tobruk (The Fall Of Tobruk, The Second Battle Of
Tobruk) (June 17-21, 1942): -- In recognition of Erwin Rommel's
capture of Tobruk, Hitler promotes him to the rank of
Feldmarschall (Field Marshal). On June 21, Tobruk fell to Italian
and German forces. Tobruk had been an Italian military post since
1911, but during World War II, Allied forces, mainly the
Australian 6th Division, took Tobruk on 22 January 1941. The
Australian 9th Division ("The Rats of Tobruk") pulled
back to Tobruk to avoid encirclement after actions at Er Regima
and Mechili and reached Tobruk on 9 April 1941 where prolonged
fighting against German and Italian forces followed. Although the
siege was lifted by Operation Crusader in November 1941, a renewed
offensive by Axis forces under Erwin Rommel the following year
resulted in Tobruk being captured on June 21, 1942 and held by the
Axis forces until November 1942, when it was recaptured by the
Allies. On November 15, 1891: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
(1891-1944) was born at Heidenheim, in Wurttemberg, Germany. He
won the Pour le Merite, Germany's highest military award, for his
actions on the Italian Front during World War I. During World War
II, he led the 7th Panzer Division to victory in the Battle Of
France. His early victories in North Africa earned him the
nickname, "Desert Fox." However, in 1943, he was
defeated at El Alamein by the British under General Montgomery.
Rommel was implicated in the July 1944 failed assassination of
Hitler. He was then forced to commit suicide and died at age 52 on
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1944: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great
Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): Operation Bagration
(Russian: Operatsiya Bagration) (The 1944 Soviet Byelorussian
Strategic Offensive Operation [Russian: Belorusskaya
Nastupatelnaya Operatsiya "Bagration"]): -- The Soviet
Union's military campaign against the German Army Group Centre,
the German Army formations that were assigned to the invasion of
the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa, begins in
Byelorussia (The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic [BSSR,
Byelorussian SSR] (modern Belarus). Operation Bagration was named
for Georgian Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (1765-1812), general
of the Imperial Russian Army who led the counter-attack against
Napoleon's invading French Revolutionary Armies during The Battle
Of Borodino, who died heroically in that battle from shell
splinters while leading the counterattack against the powerfully
storming French Grand Armee from the Russian defences of The
Bagration Fleches (three historic military earthworks whose
construction Bagration ordered) and slaughtering some 30,000 of
the 60,000 French invaders at what Historians have dubbed "the
grave of the French infantry". Operation Bagration was
launched on the second anniversary of Germany's invasion of the
Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, against the very same forces
that participated in that invasion; it was also the third
anniversary of Germany's forcing France to sign The Second
Compiegne Armistice, and occurred one year to the day before the
American victory over that Japanese in The Battle Of Okinawa.
Operation Bagration achieved major success by destroying the
German Army Group Centre and completely rupturing the German front
line. On 23 June 1944, the Red Army attacked Army Group Centre in
Byelorussia, with the objective of encircling and destroying its
main component armies. By 28 June, the German Fourth Army had been
destroyed, along with most of the Third Panzer and Ninth Armies.
The Red Army exploited the collapse of the German front line to
encircle German formations in the vicinity of Minsk and destroy
them, with Minsk liberated on 4 July. With the end of effective
German resistance in Byelorussia, the Soviet offensive continued
further to Lithuania, Poland and Romania over the course of July
and August. The Red Army successfully used the Soviet deep battle
and Maskirovka strategies for the first time to full extent,
albeit with continuing heavy losses. Operation Bagration diverted
German mobile reserves to the central sectors, removing them from
the Lublin-Brest and Lvov-Sandomierz areas, enabling the Soviets
to undertake the Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive and Lublin-Brest
Offensive. This allowed the Red Army to reach the Vistula river
and Warsaw, which in turn put Soviet forces within striking
distance of Berlin, conforming to the concept of Soviet deep
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Peter Asher
CBE, British guitarist, singer, manager and record producer who
came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal
duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a
manager and record producer, is #born at the Central Middlesex
Hospital in the centre of the Park Royal business estate, on the
border of two London, England boroughs, Brent and Ealing. As of
2018, he tours alongside Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy in a new
duo entitled Peter and Jeremy, where they perform hits from both
of their of respective catalogs. J. C. Kaelin of the
EarthStation1.com and MediaOutlet.com labels believes he is the
inspiration for the character Austin Powers, as his appearance
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1945: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Volcano And Ryukyu
Islands Campaign: The Battle Of Okinawa (Operation Iceberg): --
The Battle Of Okinawa comes to an end the day after organized
resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapsed in the
Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island, which caused
the battle effectively to end. On April 1, 1945 (April Fool's
Day), the Battle Of Okinawa began as the Tenth United States Army
invaded Okinawa and attacked the Thirty-Second Japanese Army in
the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War
II. Codenamed Operation Iceberg, it was a major battle of the
Pacific War fought by United States Marine and Army forces against
the Imperial Japanese Army. The 82-day battle lasted from April 1
until June 22, 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the
Allies were planning to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi
(550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations
for the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands. The United
States created the Tenth Army, a cross-branch force consisting of
the 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th infantry divisions of the US Army
with the 1st, 2nd, and 6th divisions of the Marine Corps, to fight
on the island. The Tenth was unique in that it had its own
tactical air force (joint Army-Marine command), and was also
supported by combined naval and amphibious forces. The battle has
been referred to as the "typhoon of steel" in English,
and tetsu no ame ("rain of steel") or tetsu no bofu
("violent wind of steel") in Japanese. The nicknames
refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of Japanese
kamikaze attacks, and the sheer numbers of Allied ships and
armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle was one of
the bloodiest in the Pacific, with approximately 160,000+
casualties on both sides: at least 75,682 Allied and
84,166-117,000 Japanese, including drafted Okinawans wearing
Japanese uniforms. 149,425 Okinawans were killed, committed
suicide or went missing, a significant proportion of the estimated
pre-war 300,000 local population. In the naval operations
surrounding the battle, both sides lost considerable numbers of
ships and aircraft, including the Japanese battleship Yamato.
After the battle, Okinawa provided a fleet anchorage, troop
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Howard
Kaylan, American rock and roll, folk rock and pop music singer,
keyboardist, clarinetist, saxophonist and writer, best known as a
founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band The Turtles, and
as "Eddie" in the 1970s rock band Flo & Eddie, is
#born Howard Lawrence Kaplan in the Bronx to a Jewish family. He
was also a member of Frank Zappa's band, The Mothers of Invention.
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! David Lander,
American actor, comedian, singer and baseball scout (d. December
4, 2020) is #born David Leonard Landau in Brooklyn, New York, the
youngest son of two Jewish schoolteacher parents, Stella (Goldman)
and Saul Landau. He was best known for his portrayal of Andrew
"Squiggy" Squiggman in the ABC sitcom Laverne &
Shirley. He also served as a Goodwill ambassador for the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society. Lander also sang and played the
squigophone with Lenny And The Squigtones, a fictional musical
group Lander headed with Michael McKean. The group's eponymous
debut album, Lenny & Squiggy Present Lenny and the Squigtones,
was released on the Casablanca label in 1979. The album is now a
collector's item partly because of guitar work by Christopher
Guest, who used the name "Nigel Tufnel". This was the
name Guest used for the satirical rock band Spinal Tap several
years later, alongside McKean (who used the name "David St.
Hubbins" in Spinal Tap). A photo on the album's inside cover
also includes two band members, "Murph", the keyboard
player from The Blues Brothers, and "Ming the Merciless",
purported to be Kiss drummer Peter Criss without his famous "cat"
costume and make-up, though Criss denied it was him. McKean has
confirmed that the drummer in the photograph is actually Don
Poncher. David Lander died of complications from Multiple
Sclerosis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,
California. He was 73 years old. He is buried at the Hollywood
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June 22, 1948: #BOTD: #HBD! Todd
Rundgren, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and
record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a
solo artist and as a member of the band Utopia, is #born Todd
Harry Rundgren in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Todd Rundgren is
characterized for his sophisticated and often-unorthodox music,
flamboyant stage outfits, and his later experiments with
interactive entertainment. He also produced innovative music
videos, pioneered forms of multimedia, and was an early adopter
and promoter of various computer technologies, such as using the
Internet as a means of music distribution in the late 1990s. A
native of Philadelphia, Rundgren began his professional career in
the mid 1960s, forming the psychedelic band Nazz in 1967. Two
years later, he left Nazz to pursue a solo career and immediately
scored his first US top 40 hit with "We Gotta Get You a
Woman" (1970). His best-known songs include "Hello It's
Me" and "I Saw the Light" from Something/Anything?
(1972), which have heavy rotation on classic rock radio stations,
and the 1983 single "Bang the Drum All Day", which is
featured in many sports arenas, commercials and movie trailers.
Although lesser known, "Couldn't I Just Tell You" (1972)
was influential to many artists in the power pop genre. His 1973
album A Wizard, a True Star remains an influence on later
generations of "bedroom" musicians. Rundgren was one of
the first acts to be prominent both as an artist and as a
producer. His notable production credits include Badfinger's
Straight Up (1971), Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band
(1973), the New York Dolls' New York Dolls (1973), Meat Loaf's Bat
Out of Hell (1977) and XTC's Skylarking (1986). Additionally, he
organized the first interactive television concert in 1978,
designed the first color graphics tablet in 1980, and created the
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1949: #BOTD: #HBD! Meryl Streep,
American actress and beauty, often described as "The Best
Actress Of Her Generation", particularly known for her
versatility and accent adaptability, record-setter for actor
accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades,
including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three,
and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning eight, is
#born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey. Streep made her
stage debut in 1975 Trelawny of the Wells and received a Tony
Award nomination the following year for a double-bill production
of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays. In 1977,
she made her film debut in Julia. In 1978, she won her first
Primetime Emmy Award for a leading role in the mini-series
Holocaust, and received her first Oscar nomination for The Deer
Hunter. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for
playing a troubled wife in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and went on to
establish herself as a film actor in the 1980s. She won the
Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a Holocaust
survivor in Sophie's Choice (1982) and had her biggest commercial
success to that point in Out of Africa (1985). She continued to
gain awards, and critical praise, for her work in the late 1980s
and 1990s, but commercial success was varied, with the comedy
Death Becomes Her (1992) and the drama The Bridges of Madison
County (1995), her biggest earners in that period. Streep
reclaimed her stardom in the 2000s and 2010s with starring roles
in Adaptation (2002), The Hours (2002), The Devil Wears Prada
(2006), Doubt (2008), Mamma Mia! (2008), Julie & Julia (2009),
It's Complicated (2009), Into the Woods (2014), The Post (2017)
and Little Women (2019). She also won her third Academy Award for
her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The
Iron Lady (2011). Her stage roles include The Public Theater's
2001 revival of The Seagull, and her television roles include two
projects for HBO, the miniseries Angels in America (2003), for
which she won another Primetime Emmy Award, and the drama series
Big Little Lies (2019). Streep has been the recipient of many
honorary awards. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in
2004, Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in
2008, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to
American culture, through performing arts. President Barack Obama
awarded her the National Medal of Arts in 2010, and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. In 2003, the French
government made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.
She was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017.
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22, 1954: #DOTD: #RIP: Don
Hollenbeck, CBS newscaster, commentator, and associate of Edward
R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly (b. March 30, 1905) #dies in his
Manhattan apartment, most likely of suicide, aged 49 by fuel gas
inhalation caused by his stove and oven having been turned on but
not lit, allowing gas to fill his apartment; consequently,
Hollenbeck's death was ruled a suicide. Reasons that it might have
been suicide include health problems, depression, a broken
marriage, and frequent published attacks by Jack O'Brian, a Hearst
columnist and supporter of Joseph McCarthy. Don Hollenbeck is
buried in Wyuka Cemetery in his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. In
the 1976 film Network after being fired as president of the news
division in the fictional UBS network, Max Schumacher (William
Holden) is packing his belongings and finds an old picture taken
when he and Howard Beale (Peter Finch) worked at CBS and notes
that Hollenbeck is in the picture. In 1986, Hollenbeck was played
by Harry Ditson in the HBO original production Murrow. In 2005,
Hollenbeck was later played by Ray Wise in the film Good Night,
and Good Luck, which was centered on Murrow and CBS News in their
1950s campaign against McCarthy. One of the film's sub-plots
included Hollenbeck's suicide following continued printed attacks
by Jack O'Brian. He was portrayed through the film as a broken
man, as a result of his wife leaving him and the false allegations
by O'Brian that he was a "pinko" communist-sympathizer
who deliberately biased his news reports. Don Hollenbeck was born
Donald Hollenbeck in Lincoln, Nebraska. Hollenbeck's first
assignment was to the Nebraska State Journal in 1926. During World
War II, he was assigned to the foreign staff of NBC in London in
March 1943. From there he went to Algiers just in time to take a
place with the British troops landing at Salerno, Italy in
September. He went in with the second wave -- the assault wave
which took the full force of German shells, and later made a
number of battle-action recordings which were broadcast to the
United States. During the conquest of southern Italy, Hollenbeck
moved northward with the troops and was one of the first
correspondents to begin broadcasting from Naples when the Army
Signal Corps set up transmitters for the correspondents. But at
Salerno he was stricken with malaria, then with jaundice and
ordered back home. Hollenbeck was at one time employed by the
newspaper PM, a liberal-leaning daily newspaper published in New
York City by Ralph Ingersoll from June 1940 to June 1948 founded
and financed by millionaire department store magnate Chicago
Marshall Field III. PM garnered accusations of being sympathetic
to Communism even though it was critical of the Soviet Union for
the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and of the American Communist Party
for supporting it. The newspaper published work by authors such as
Ernest Hemingway and Erskine Caldwell, photographers like Weegee
and Margaret Bourke-White, and cartoonists like Dr. Seuss,
Crockett Johnson and Walt Kelly. It accepted no advertising, and
dedicated itself to preventing "the little guy from being
pushed around."[ It ended up becoming a target for
anti-communists, and went out of business in 1948. Because of this
affiliation, Hollenbeck was a target for McCarthy-supporting
columnist Jack O'Brian, whose attacks appeared in the New York
Journal American and other newspapers in the Hearst newspaper
chain. Hollenbeck also worked for the Office of War Information
(OWI), NBC and ABC, once subbing on short notice for Orson Welles
over Welles' scheduled Sunday ABC news commentary program, before
joining CBS in 1946. The move to CBS followed his firing by ABC's
New York flagship radio station WJZ; after listening repeatedly
over a six-month period to a musical commercial for Marlin razors
that immediately preceded his 7 a.m. newscast, Hollenbeck told his
listeners: "The atrocity you have just heard is no part of
this show." Murrow had Hollenbeck work on the innovative
media-review program, CBS Views the Press, over the radio
network's flagship station, WCBS. Hollenbeck discussed Edward U.
Condon, Alger Hiss, and Paul Robeson. In the early 1950s,
Hollenbeck worked both for CBS Television and flagship WCBS-TV.
The first newsman WCBS-TV viewers saw after Murrow's March 9,
1954, documentary on Joe McCarthy was Hollenbeck, who told the
viewers he wanted "to associate myself with what Ed Murrow
has just said, and say I have never been prouder of CBS."
That prompted O'Brian in the Hearst newspapers (including the
flagship Journal-American) to step up his criticism of CBS and
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Today, June 22, 2026
June 22: Windrush Day: -- Marks the
arrival of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to the shores of Britain and
honors the British Caribbean community. An estimated half a
million people made their way to England after the Second World
War. The first Windrush Day was held on June 22, 2018, after a
successful campaign led by Patrick Vernon. Since then, more and
more people have started participating in Windrush Day
celebrations and observations to show empathy with the hardships
that the previous generations of Black Britons endured and the
current generations continue to endure. On June 22, 1948, 492
Caribbean people arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex on the Empire
Windrush ship. While news reports claimed that the number was 492,
the ship's records show that more than a thousand passengers were
on board. The United Kingdom suffered significant losses after the
Second World War, and the British government decided that it was
essential to recruit Afro-Caribbean migrants for the production of
steel, coal, iron, and food, and running public transport. The
transition wasn't smooth and the first Afro-Caribbean immigrants
faced violence and intolerance from the majority of the white
population. Black people were also banned from many pubs, clubs,
and churches. Patrick Vernon recognized the importance of the day
and called for its commemoration to acknowledge the contribution
of migrants to British society, culture, and economy. Vernon first
launched a petition to this effect in 2013, which was followed by
another campaign in 2018, during the Windrush scandal. Officials
accepted the petition and the government declared June 22 as
Windrush Day. The community was also supported by a grant of up to
500K PSD to honor the contribution of the Windrush generation and
their descendants in making Britain a culturally diverse country.
Although Windrush Day isn't a public holiday, the citizens of the
United Kingdom observe the day with parades, dances, and other
events.
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Today, June 22, 2026June 22: Anti-Fascist Struggle Day
(Croatia): -- A day commemorating the beginning of the Yugoslavian
uprisings against the invading German and Italian forces during
World War II. Germany and allies, Italy and Bulgaria, and others
invaded the Yugoslavian Empire and swiftly took control of it. The
Empire's army surrender shook Yugoslavians to the core. However,
before long, they managed to wake up and began armed uprisings in
different places, starting with the historic Partisan formed in
the forest of Brezovica near Sisak. The Croatian Parliament laid
the foundation of Anti-Fascist Struggle Day in 1991. The day began
in the forests of Brezovica close to the Central Croatian city of
Sisak. It follows the creation of the First Partisan Detachment,
sworn to oppose German and Italian rule in the then Yugoslavian
Empire. Popularly known as the First Sisak Partisan Detachment,
this guerilla unit marked the beginning of other uprisings, which
mounted a series of guerilla attacks to topple Nazi rule in
Yugoslavia in 1941. When Germany and its allies overtook the
Empire, the occurrence came too sudden for Yugoslavians to combat.
However, a few months after in 1941, some brave Yugoslavians,
seeing how dangerous their towns were becoming, retired to the
forests of Brezovica near the city of Sisak. On June 22, they
assembled a total number of 77 men, a good number of whom were
Croatians, who formed the First Sisak Partisan Detachment - the
first out of many future communist-led guerilla units that mounted
what came to be known as the largest resistance force in occupied
Europe in 1944. With the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945,
Yugoslavians became finally free. The number of occupying forces
had already begun to dwindle a few years before. The Italians
withdrew from the Empire in 1943, whereas the Hungarians retreated
a year before. Of the 77 fighters that formed the First Sisak
Partisan Detachment, only 38 survived. The deceased were buried in
a special memorial park in Sisak.
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Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Ed Bradley,
African American teacher, journalist, war correspondent, radio and
television news presenter and investigative reporter, known for
his career as a reporter for the CBS News television show 60
Minutes (d. November 9, 2006) is #born Edward Rudolph Bradley, Jr.
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bradley was recognized for his
investigative journalism work with 20 Emmy Awards, the Radio
Television Digital News Association Paul White Award, the National
Association of Black Journalists Lifetime Achievement Award, and
multiple Peabody Awards. Prior to reporting for 60 Minutes,
Bradley reported on the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, and was the first
African American White House correspondent. He also anchored the
program CBS Sunday Night News with Ed Bradley. Bradley graduated
from Cheyney University in 1964 with a degree in education. While
studying at Cheyney, Georgie Woods inspired him to work in radio.
Bradley worked as a mathematics teacher and took a job with
WDAS-AM-FM, for which he covered the Philadelphia race riots and
was motivated to move into investigative journalism. In 1967,
Bradley moved to New York City and was hired by WCBS radio as a
reporter. He moved to France in 1971, and reported for CBS on the
Paris Peace Talks before covering the Vietnam War and the
Cambodian Civil War. In Cambodia, Bradley was injured by mortar
fire, and earned the duPont Columbia Award and a George Polk
Award. CBS promoted Bradley to cover the Jimmy Carter 1976
presidential campaign; he later became the first African American
White House correspondent. Bradley's 1979 reporting on Vietnamese
refugees "The Boat People" earned him numerous awards
and led to his role at 60 Minutes in 1981. Bradley was proudest of
his 60 Minutes interview with singer Lena Horne. During his career
as a 60 Minutes correspondent, Bradley covered over 500 stories,
including interviews with performers Laurence Olivier and Bob
Dylan, and investigative reports into the Catholic Church abuse
cases, and the murder of Emmett Till.
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Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 2008: #DOTD: #RIP: George
Carlin, American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social
critic, dubbed "The Dean Of Counterculture Comedians",
widely regarded as one of the most important and influential
stand-up comics, noted for his black comedy and reflections on
politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various
taboo subjects, and whose "seven dirty words" comedy
routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v.
Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5-4 decision affirmed the
government's power to regulate indecent material on the public
airwaves (b. May 12, 1937) #dies of heart failure at Saint John's
Health Center in Santa Monica, California, aged 71. His death
occurred one week after his last performance at The Orleans Hotel
and Casino. In accordance with his wishes, his body was cremated
and his ashes were scattered in front of various New York City
nightclubs and over Spofford Lake in New Hampshire, where he had
attended summer camp as an adolescent. George Carlin was born
George Denis Patrick Carlin at New York Hospital in Manhattan into
an Irish catholic family. The first of Carlin's 14 stand-up comedy
specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. From the late 1980s, Carlin's
routines focused on sociocultural criticism of American society.
He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United
States and satirized the excesses of American culture. He was a
frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the
three-decade Johnny Carson era, and hosted the first episode of
Saturday Night Live in 1975. His final HBO special, It's Bad for
Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death. In 2008, he
was posthumously awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
In total, his 50-year career generated 23 albums, 14 HBO specials,
130 Tonight Show appearances and 3 books. Here are a few quotes
(without any dirty words) in honor of the occasion: * I think I
am, therefore, I am... I think. * Isn't making a smoking section
in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? *
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the
self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the
purpose. * What if there were no hypothetical questions? * Have
you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot,
and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? * If you try to
fail, and succeed, which have you done? * When I ask how old your
toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's 2' will do
just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the
first place. * If the black box flight recorder is never damaged
during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of
that stuff? * Think of how stupid the average person is, and
realize half of them are stupider than that. * Some people see
things that are and ask, 'Why?' Some people dream of things that
never were and ask, 'Why not?' Some people have to go to work and
don't have time for all that. * Most people work just hard enough
not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. *
'Bipartisan' usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is
being carried out. * Fighting for peace is like screwing for
virginity. * Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with
it. * I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as
many people who believe it. * One can never know for sure what a
deserted area can look like. * When you step on the brakes, your
life is in your foot's hands. * Some people have no idea what
they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.
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Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 1987: #DOTD: #RIP: Fred Astaire,
iconic American actor, singer, dancer and producer (b. May 10,
1899) #dies of pneumonia at the age of 88. His body is buried at
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. One of
his last requests was to thank his fans for their years of
support. Astaire was named by the American Film Institute as the
fifth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema in 100
Years... 100 Stars. Gene Kelly, another star in filmed dance, said
that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire."
Later, he asserted that Astaire was "the only one of today's
dancers who will be remembered." Beyond film and television,
many dancers and choreographers, including Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy
Davis Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Madhuri Dixit, also
acknowledged his influence. Fred Astaire was born Frederick
Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Johanna "Ann"
(nee Geilus; 1878-1975) and Friedrich "Fritz" Emanuel
Austerlitz (1868-1923), known in the US as Frederic Austerlitz.
Astaire's mother was born in the US to Lutheran German immigrants
from East Prussia and Alsace. Astaire's father was born in Linz
(where Adolf Hitler was raised) in Upper Austria, then part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Catholic parents who had converted
from Judaism. Fred Astaire's stage and subsequent film and
television careers spanned a total of 76 years, during which he
starred in more than 10 Broadway and London musicals, made 31
musical films, 4 television specials, and issued numerous
recordings. As a dancer, he is best remembered for his sense of
rhythm, his perfectionism, and as the dancing partner and
on-screen romantic interest of Ginger Rogers, with whom he
co-starred in a series of ten Hollywood musicals.
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Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 1988: #DOTD: #RIP: Dennis Day,
Irish-American singer, radio, television and film personality and
comedian (b. May 21, 1916) #dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease), in Los Angeles,
California. He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City,
Los Angeles County, California. His star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame is at 6646 Hollywood Boulevard. Dennis Day was born Owen
Patrick Eugene McNulty in The Bronx, New York City, Dennis Day was
born and raised in the Throggs Neck section of The Bronx, New York
City, the second of five children born to Irish immigrants Patrick
McNulty and Mary (nee Grady) McNulty. His father was a factory
electric power engineer. Day graduated from Cathedral Preparatory
Seminary in New York City, and attended Manhattan College in the
Bronx, where he sang in the glee club. In 1939 Gene McNulty, as
Day was then known, sang on network radio with bandleader Larry
Clinton. The Clinton broadcasts were aimed at the collegiate
audience, and were often broadcast from a college campus. The
23-year-old McNulty won an audience poll as a favorite vocalist.
Day appeared for the first time on Jack Benny's radio show on
October 8, 1939, taking the place of another tenor, Kenny Baker.
He remained associated with Benny's radio and television programs
until Benny's death in 1974. He was introduced (with actress Verna
Felton playing his overbearing mother) as a young
(nineteen-year-old), naive boy singer - a character he kept
through his whole career. Mary Livingstone, Benny's wife, brought
the singer to Benny's attention after hearing Day on the radio
during a visit to New York. She took a recording of Day's singing
to Benny, who then went to New York to audition Day. The audition
resulted in Day's role on the Benny program. Day's first recorded
song was "Goodnight My Beautiful". Besides singing, Day
was a mimic. On the Benny program, Day performed impressions of
various celebrities of the era, including Ronald Colman, Jimmy
Durante and James Stewart. From 1944 through 1946 he served in the
United States Navy as a Lieutenant. While in service he was
temporarily replaced on the Benny radio program by fellow tenor
Larry Stevens. On his return to civilian life, he continued to
work with Benny while also starring on his own NBC show, A Day in
the Life of Dennis Day (1946-1951). On Benny's show, Day's having
two programs in comparison to Benny's one was the subject of
numerous jokes and gags, usually revolving around Day rubbing
Benny's nose, and sometimes other cast members' and guest stars'
noses in that fact (e.g., "Dennis, why do you have two horns
on your bicycle?" "Why shouldn't I? I've got two
shows!"). His last radio series was a comedy and variety show
that aired on NBC's Sunday afternoon schedule during the 1954-55
season. An attempt was made to adapt A Day in the Life Of Dennis
Day as an NBC filmed series (Sam Berman's caricature of Dennis was
used in the opening and closing titles), produced by Jerry
Fairbanks for Dennis' sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive, featuring the
original radio cast, but got no farther than an unaired 1949 pilot
episode. In late 1950, a sample kinescope was produced by Colgate
and their ad agency showcasing Dennis as host of a projected
"live" comedy/variety series (The Dennis Day Show) for
CBS, but that, too, went unsold. He continued to appear as a
regular cast member when The Jack Benny Program became a TV
series, staying with the show until it ended in 1965. Eventually,
his own TV series, The Dennis Day Show (aka The RCA Victor Show),
was first telecast on NBC on February 8, 1952, and then in the
1953-1954 season. Between 1952 and 1978, he made numerous TV
appearances as a singer and actor (such as NBC's The Gisele
MacKenzie Show and ABC's The Bing Crosby Show and Alfred Hitchcock
Presents) and voice for animation, such as the Walt Disney feature
Johnny Appleseed, handling multiple characters. During the final
season of The Jack Benny Program (1964-65), Day was nearly 49
years old, although Benny was still delivering such lines as "That
crazy kid drives me nuts ..." His last televised work with
Benny was in 1970, when they appeared in a public service
announcement together to promote savings and loans. This was
shortly after the whole cast and crew of The Jack Benny Show had
joined for Jack Benny's Twentieth Anniversary Special. In 1972, he
co-starred with June Allyson and Judy Canova in the First National
Tour of the Broadway musical No, No, Nanette. In 1976, Day was the
voice of "The Preacher" in the Rankin-Bass production
Frosty's Winter Wonderland and again worked with them in 1978,
when he voiced Fred in The Stingiest Man in Town, which was their
animated version of Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol. He
also appeared in Date with the Angels - Season 1, Episode 13 as
himself. Aired Friday 9:30 pm October 25, 1957 on ABC - some
records show it was episode 19, titled Star Struck. Although his
career was mainly radio and TV-based, Day also appeared in a few
films. These included Buck Benny Rides Again (1940) opposite Jack
Benny, Sleepy Lagoon (1943), Music in Manhattan (1944), I'll Get
By (1950), Golden Girl (1951), The Girl Next Door (1953), and Won
Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) as a singing telegraph
man. For the soundtrack of My Wild Irish Rose (1947), a biopic
about Chauncey Olcott, Day provided the singing voice to the
acting of Dennis Morgan. In 1948, Day married Peggy Almquist; the
marriage lasted until his death in 1988. The couple had ten
children. His brother Jim McNulty, two years younger, was married
to actress and singer Ann Blyth. A Republican, Day was supportive
of Dwight Eisenhower's campaign during the 1952 presidential
election and Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States
presidential election. Day died at the age of 72 of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease),
in Los Angeles, California. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
is at 6646 Hollywood Boulevard. He is interred in Culver City's
Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP: Rick Sklar,
American radio program director who, while at New York City's
WABC, was one of the originators of the Top 40 radio format (b.
November 21, 1929) #dies of complications of cancer surgery in
Roosevelt Hospital, Manhattan, aged 62. Prior to his death, Sklar
had been an avid runner for more than ten years, taking it up in
the late 1970s. He ran his first New York City Marathon in 1982,
finishing 4 hours, 21 minutes, and 36 seconds; coming in 642nd out
of 857 who finished the race in his age group. He began to have
problems with his left foot, which necessitated him quitting the
sport by 1990. In June 1992, he entered Roosevelt Hospital in
Manhattan for a minor operation that would allow him to run again.
Although in good health, he died on the operating table due to a
lack of oxygen and other mistakes made by the hospital staff. Rick
Sklar was posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of
Fame the following year. His burial details are not publicly
available. Rick Sklar in was born in Brooklyn NY and grew up in
its Brighton Beach section. He graduated from New York University
and volunteered at WNYC radio as a writer. He then worked at WPAC
in Patchogue, New York, and in 1954 moved to WINS where he was
assistant program director. In 1960, Sklar became program director
at crosstown competitor WMGM. He moved to WABC in 1962 and became
program director there in 1963. Under his management, WABC became
the model for tight-playlist, teenager-targeted Top 40
programming, with a strong signal and famed disc jockeys such as
"Cousin Brucie" Bruce Morrow, Dan Ingram, Harry
Harrison, Chuck Leonard, and Ron Lundy. His relationship with some
of the DJs he oversaw was contentious at times. Scott Muni
departed from WABC after a number of confrontations with Sklar
over playlists including Sklar's refusal to remove Louis
Armstrong's version of the #1 smash hit "Hello, Dolly"
from the playlist at Muni's request. Under Sklar, the station's
ratings soared and was often the most listened to radio station in
North America through the mid-60s into the late 70s. In March
1977, Sklar was promoted to vice president of programming for
ABC's radio division. In 1984 he left ABC to start his own
consulting firm, Sklar Communications. His autobiography, Rocking
America: An Insider's Story: How the All-Hit Radio Stations Took
Over America (ISBN 978-0312687977), was published by St. Martin's
Press the same year. In an interview recorded in 1982, when WABC
switched from music to talk programming, Sklar said "Everything
has to end, that's life, WABC is _ like anything else it's part of
life, couldn't go on forever. But _ it was a wonderful thing _ it
was a one-of-a-kind _ I don't think there'll ever be another
station quite like that. I mean, the scope of the thing was so
huge, was so grand; everything that was done was on such a massive
scale. We gave out buttons, we gave out 14 million with the WABC
call letters and if we spot you we'll give you 25K USD. You know,
this stuff is _ it's just not done today._ We'll miss it. Radio
will go on and on forever. Radio's the most adaptable medium there
is, and _ the old WABC's place in radio will be remembered by
everyone who ever heard it, who ever grew up with it, it'll be
part of millions and millions-tens of millions of people's lives,
and certainly the lives of everyone in the radio business. Now we
just have to go on to new things, and I think we will." Sklar
continued to write articles and books as well as visiting various
colleges discussing the business of radio in general. He was also
an adjunct professor at St. John's University. Rick was married to
the former Sydelle Helfgott, who also served as vice president for
his company, Sklar Communications. They had two children: a son
Scott and a daughter Holly and three grandchildren: Emily,
Samantha and Jacob.
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Today, June 22, 2026June 22-24, 1898: The Decolonization Of
The Americas: The Cuban War Of Independence (The Necessary War):
The Spanish-American War: The Landing At Daiquiri: -- In a chaotic
operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps under General
William R. Shafter lands at Daiquiri and Siboney, about 16 miles
east of Santiago, and establishes an American base of operations,
following up on the The United States First Marine Battalion
landing in Cuba at Fisherman's Point in Guantanamo Bay on June 10.
Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers
them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings. Instead, a
contingent of Spanish troops fought a skirmish with the Americans
near Siboney on June 23, then retired to their lightly entrenched
positions at Las Guasimas. An advance guard of U.S. forces under
former Confederate General Joseph Wheeler ignored Cuban scouting
parties and orders to proceed with caution. They caught up with
and engaged the Spanish rearguard of about 2,000 soldiers led by
General Antero Rubin who effectively ambushed them, in the Battle
of Las Guasimas on June 24. The battle ended indecisively in favor
of Spain and the Spanish left Las Guasimas on their planned
retreat to Santiago. The alcoholic cocktail, the daiquiri, was
supposedly named for the area. There is an iron mine near
Daiquiri, which is a word of Taino origin. The cocktail was
supposedly invented about 1900 in a bar named Venus in Santiago,
about 23 miles east of the mine, by a group of American mining
engineers. Among the engineers present were Jennings Cox, General
Manager of the Spanish American Iron Co., J. Francis Linthicum, C.
Manning Combs, George W. Pfeiffer, De Berneire Whitaker, C.
Merritt Holmes, and Proctor O. Persing. Although stories persist
that Cox invented the drink in 1896 when he ran out of gin while
entertaining American guests, the drink evolved naturally due to
the prevalence of lime and sugar, and rum.
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Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 1965: #DOTD: #RIP: David O.
Selznick, American screenwriter and producer, best known for
producing Gone With The Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both
earning him an Academy Award for Best Picture (b. May 10, 1902)
#dies at age 63 in Los Angeles, California following several heart
attacks. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
in Glendale, California. There he joined his older brother Myron
Selznick (who had died in 1944) in the family crypt. For his
contribution to the motion picture industry, David O. Selznick has
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd in
front of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. He was born David
Selznick (no "O") in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, into the
Jewish family of Florence Anna (nee Sachs) and Lewis J. Selznick,
a silent movie producer and distributor born. David O. Selznick
famously engaged in a worldwide search for an actress to play
Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind, which part ultimately he
gave to Vivian Leigh.
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Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD: Michael
Lerner, American Actor (d. April 8, 2023) is #born Michael C.
Lerner in Brooklyn, New York City into a Romanian-Jewish family.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
for his role in Barton Fink (1991). Lerner has also played Arnold
Rothstein in Eight Men Out (1988), Phil Gillman in Amos &
Andrew (1993), The Warden in No Escape (1994), Mayor Ebert in
Roland Emmerich's Godzilla (1998), Mr. Greenway in Elf (2003), and
Senator Brickman in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). According
to Lerner, his father "liked to think he was an antiques
dealer, but in all actuality he was a junk dealer." He was
raised in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and in Solon, Ohio. His younger
brother Ken, nephew Sam, and niece Jenny are also actors.[3][4]
His older brother, Arnold, died in 2004. Lerner made his first
television appearance at the age of 13, as a "quiz kid"
on a television program hosted by a local sportscaster. He played
Willy Loman in a production of Death Of A Salesman at Brooklyn
College, where Joel Zwick was a classmate. The experience
convinced him that he wanted to be an actor, rather than an
English professor. He also appeared as Sir Toby Belch in a
production of Twelfth Night directed by David Mamet in Greenwich
Village; William H. Macy was also in that production.[5] After
graduating from Brooklyn College, where he studied acting, he
received a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley,
where he earned a master's degree in English drama.[1] Although
his then-wife still thought he should become an English professor,
Lerner still wanted to be an actor;[5] he received a Fulbright
Scholarship to study theater in London for two years, at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While there, he lived in
a flat with Yoko Ono and John Lennon. In 1968, he appeared in
Ono's short experimental film Smile, among other
projects.[citation needed] "She made a movie comprised of
bare asses walking on a treadmill", he once said. "I'm
in it and so is Paul McCartney. Plus I'm doing narration about
censorship and all that crap." In 1968, Lerner returned to
the San Francisco Bay Area and joined the American Conservatory
Theater (A.C.T.).[3] At the age of 24 he appeared as "Hieronymous
the Miser" in a KPFA radio production of Michel de
Ghelderode's Breugelesque play, Red Magic. Lerner moved to Los
Angeles in 1969, where he appeared in a production of Little
Murders, a play by Jules Feiffer that was later adapted into a
film by Alan Arkin. He also began making guest appearances in
television shows such as The Brady Bunch, The Odd Couple, M*A*S*H,
Banacek and The Rockford Files. In 1974, he appeared in the
teleplay The Missiles of October, playing Pierre Salinger. In
1970, Lerner made his film debut in Alex in Wonderland; director
Paul Mazursky had seen his production of Little Murders and
enjoyed his performance.[3] He then went on to appear in
supporting roles in various Hollywood movies such as The
Candidate, St. Ives and the 1981 remake of The Postman Always
Rings Twice. In 1991, after co-starring in Harlem Nights, Lerner
played film producer Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink, for which he
received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He
based the character in part on legendary film mogul Louis B.
Mayer; according to his brother Ken, he was working on a
screenplay about Mayer when he died. From 1996 to 1997, Lerner
played Mel Horowitz on the television series Clueless. In 1997, he
would play Joy Miller's father Jerry in The Beautician and the
Beast. Lerner's later projects include the Christmas comedy Elf
(2003) and Poster Boy (2004), as well as television programs such
as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Entourage. In 2010, he
appeared in the West End production of Up for Grabs with Madonna.
He also appeared on BBC Radio Four in 2008 as a member of the cast
of David Quantick's Radio Four's series One. He portrayed Senator
Brickman in the Marvel Comics/Twentieth Century Fox film, X-Men:
Days of Future Past (2014). In 2013, Lerner appeared in a Season 4
episode of Glee as Sidney Greene, an investor in the revival of
Broadway musical Funny Girl. His character is on the panel of
judges, watching the Rachel Berry character audition for the lead
role. He reprised his role as Sidney in Season 5 in several New
York-based episodes of the series, as Funny Girl opens on
Broadway. In addition to his acting career, Lerner was a collector
of rare books, an aficionado of Cuban cigars, and-by his own
account-a very good poker player. He was missing the tip of one
index finger, due to an injury suffered while cutting a tongue
sandwich while working at a deli in New York City. Lerner died of
complications from brain seizures at a hospital in Burbank,
California, on April 8, 2023, at the age of 81. He is buried at
the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Hollywood, California.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Women
Of Courage: The WASP Aviators Of WWII DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Shirley Chase
Kruse, WASP aviator, is born Shirley Chase in Kearny, New Jersey
and grew up in nearby Newark. Shirley J. Chase Kruse's passion and
interest in aviation began as a child. It was a family tradition
to go on Sunday drives, and on one such occasion, the family
passed the Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Kruse saw a sign
advertising 5 USD airplane rides, and asked her father if she
could have one for her 10th birthday present. Her father
responded, saying "Girls don't fly." Her mother,
however, said "Shirley, if you want to fly, you will fly."
It would take nearly a decade before another flying opportunity
would present itself. While visiting friends in New York State,
Shirley would get a taste of flight in a Piper Cub. Soon after
Kruse began flying lessons on weekends in Newburgh, New York.
While Kruse was taking flying lessons, she learned about the WASP
program. Kruse sent in her application, and was accepted to be
part of class 44-W-6. Like the other WASP, Kruse was trained at
Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. Upon graduation, she received
her coveted silver wings, which she wore proudly on her chest.
Kruse received orders to go to Bainbridge Army Air Field in
Georgia, where she would flight test aircraft which had been
repaired, as well as ferry airplanes to other regional bases.
Kruse was sent back to Avenger Field in late in 1944 for an
instrument training course. While she was there, Jackie Cochran,
head of the WASP program flew in to join the trainees, explaining
that the WASP program had been shut down. Kruse and the others sat
on the flight line, in their uniforms, listening to the
disappointing message. Kruse, like many of the other WASP, went on
to find work after the program ended. Kruse returned to New Jersey
where she would become a proofreader for Bendix Aircraft Company
in Teterboro. Following the War, Kruse would go on to start a
family and have three daughters. She currently lives in Palm
Coast, Florida. She said "My time spent as a WASP was a never
to be forgotten adventure, a great preparation for the wonderful
experience of all that my life was to become."
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Jack
Paar Late-Night TV Talk Shows DVD, MP4 Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 2008: #DOTD: #RIP: Dody Goodman,
American character actress, dancer and comedian (b. October 28,
1914) #dies of natural causes at Englewood Hospital and Medical
Center in Englewood, New Jersey, after having lived at the Lillian
Booth Actors Home since October 2007, aged 93. She is buried at
Randolph Cemetery in Randolph, New York. Dody was born Dolores
Goodman in Columbus, Ohio. She played the mother of the title
character in the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, her
distinctive high-pitched voice announcing the show's title at the
beginning of each episode. She was a frequent guest on The Tonight
Show in the 1950s at the invitation of its then host Jack Paar,
who became enchanted with her ditzy persona and seemingly
spontaneous malaprops. She was also acast member of The Mary Tyler
Moore Hour in 1979. Aside from film and television appearances,
she also voiced Miss Miller in the television series Alvin and the
Chipmunks and the film spin-off The Chipmunk Adventure.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Judy
Garland In Concert & Conversation DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, June 22, 2026June 22, 1969: #DOTD: #RIP: Judy Garland,
iconic American actress and singer known as "America's
Sweetheart", best remembered for her portrayal of Dorothy
Gale in The Wizard Of Oz (1939) and other films including Meet Me
in St. Louis (1944) and Easter Parade (1948), one of the most
popular concert performers of the 1950s and '60s and broke
box-office records in New York City and London (b. June 10, 1922)
#dies in the bathroom of her rented house in Cadogan Lane,
Belgravia, London, aged 47. At the inquest, Coroner Gavin Thurston
stated that the cause of death was "an incautious
self-overdosage" of barbiturates; her blood contained the
equivalent of ten 1.5-grain (97 mg) Seconal capsules. Thurston
stressed that the overdose had been unintentional and no evidence
suggested that she had intended to kill herself. Garland's autopsy
showed no inflammation of her stomach lining and no drug residue
in her stomach, which indicated that the drug had been ingested
over a long period of time, rather than in a single dose. Her
death certificate stated that her death was "accidental".
Supporting the accidental cause, Garland's physician noted that a
prescription of 25 barbiturate pills was found by her bedside
half-empty and another bottle of 100 barbiturate pills was still
unopened. A British specialist who had attended Garland's autopsy
stated that she had nevertheless been living on borrowed time
owing to cirrhosis, although a second autopsy conducted later
reported no evidence of alcoholism or cirrhosis. Her Wizard of Oz
co-star Ray Bolger commented at her funeral, "She just plain
wore out." Forensic pathologist Jason Payne-James believed
that Garland had an eating disorder (psychologist Linda
Papadopoulos asserted that it was probably bulimia nervosa), which
contributed to her death. After Garland's body had been embalmed
and clothed in the same gray, silk gown she wore at her wedding to
her fifth and final husband Mickey Deans, Deans traveled with her
remains to New York City on June 26, 1969, where an estimated
20,000 people lined up to pay their respects at the Frank E.
Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan, which remained open all
night long to accommodate the overflowing crowd. On June 27, 1969,
James Mason gave a eulogy at the funeral, an Episcopal service led
by the Rev. Peter Delaney of St Marylebone Parish Church, London,
who had officiated at her marriage to Deans, three months earlier.
"Judy's great gift", Mason said in his eulogy, "was
that she could wring tears out of hearts of rock... She gave so
richly and so generously, that there was no currency in which to
repay her." The public and press were barred. She was
interred in a crypt in the community mausoleum at Ferncliff
Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, a town 24 miles (39 km) north of
midtown Manhattan. Upon Garland's death, despite having earned
millions during her career, her estate came to US 40K USD
(equivalent to 230K USD in 2021). Years of mismanagement of her
financial affairs by her representatives and staff along with her
generosity toward her family and various causes resulted in her
poor financial situation at the end of her life. In her last will,
signed and sealed in early 1961, Garland made many generous
bequests that could not be fulfilled because her estate had been
in debt for many years. Her daughter, Liza Minnelli, worked to pay
off her mother's debts with the help of family friend Frank
Sinatra. In 1978, a selection of Garland's personal items was
auctioned off by her ex-husband Sidney Luft with the support of
their daughter Lorna Luft and their son Joey. Almost 500 items,
ranging from copper cookware to musical arrangements, were offered
for sale. The auction raised 250K USD (equivalent to 830K USD in
2021) for her heirs. At the request of her children, Garland's
remains were disinterred from Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New
York in January 2017 and re-interred 2,800 miles (4,500 km) across
the country at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles,
California. Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand
Rapids, Minnesota. During a career that spanned 45 of her 47
years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in
musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the
concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a
juvenile Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Special Tony
Award, and was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album
of the Year for her live recording Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961).
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her
performance in A Star Is Born (1954), and received a nomination
for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Judgment at Nuremberg
(1961). As a child, Garland began performing in vaudeville with
her two older sisters, and later signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
as a teenager. She made more than two dozen films with MGM, nine
of which with Mickey Rooney, and is perhaps best remembered for
her performance as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard Of Oz (1939). Her
other most notable film roles with MGM include appearances in Meet
Me in St. Louis (1944), The Harvey Girls (1946), Easter Parade
(1948), and Summer Stock (1950). Garland was released from MGM in
1950, after 15 years with the studio, amid a series of personal
struggles and erratic behavior that prevented her from fulfilling
the terms of her contract. Her film appearances diminished, but
she would thereafter go on to receive two Academy Award
nominations. She also made record-breaking concert appearances,
released eight studio albums, and hosted her own Emmy-nominated
television series, The Judy Garland Show (1963-1964). At age 39,
Garland became the youngest and first female recipient of the
Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film
industry. In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded a Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award. Several of her recordings have been
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and in 1999, the American
Film Institute placed her among the 10 greatest female stars of
classic American cinema. Despite profound professional success,
Garland struggled largely in her personal life from an early age.
The pressures of adolescent stardom affected her physical and
mental health from the time she was a teenager; her self-image was
influenced and constantly criticized by film executives who
believed that she was physically unattractive. Those same
executives manipulated her onscreen physical appearance. Into her
adulthood, she was plagued by alcohol and substance abuse, as well
as financial instability; she often owed hundreds of thousands of
dollars in back taxes. Her life-long addiction to drugs and
alcohol ultimately led to her death in London from a barbiturate
overdose at age 47.
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