June 22

Events

• 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
• 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
• 1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
• 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, in one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
• 1963 - Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
• 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.

Births

• 1757 - George Vancouver, navigator, naval surveyor (+ 1798).
• 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, philosopher and statesman (+ 1835).
• 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (+ 1884).
• 1856 - H. Rider Haggard, author (+ 1925).
• 1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (+ 1962).
• 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, writer (+ 1970).
• 1903 - Carl Hubbell[?] Major League Baseball star (+ 1988).
• 1906 - Billy Wilder, director (+ 2002).
• 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (+ 2001).
• 1920 - Paul Frees[?], cartoon voice-over artist (+ 1986).
• 1921 - Joseph Papp[?], director, producer.
• 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar.
• 1941 - Ed Bradley[?], journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent.
• 1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor.
• 1948 - Todd Rundgren, singer.
• 1949 - Meryl Streep, actress.
• 1952 - Graham Greene, actor.
• 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer.
• 1954 - Freddie Prinze, Actor/comedian.
• 1958 - Bruce Campbell, actor.

Deaths

• 431 - Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet.
• 1965 - David O. Selznick, movie producer.
• 1969 - Judy Garland, singer, actress.
• 1974 - Darius Milhaud, composer.
• 1987 - Fred Astaire, dancer, actor.
• 1988 - Dennis Day[?], singer, actor.
• 1993 - Pat Nixon[?], wife of President Richard M. Nixon.

Holidays and observances

• Feast of St Alban (Anglican).

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