History for June 22

History for June 22 - On-This-Day.com
George Vancouver 1757, Erich Maria Remarque 1898, John Dillinger 1902 - Gangster 

Kris Kristofferson 1936 - Singer, Brit Hume 1943 - Broadcast journalist, Todd Rungren 1948 - Musician 


Meryl Streep 1949 - Actress, Cyndi Lauper 1953 - Singer, Bruce Campbell 1958 


1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers. 


1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin machine. 


1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy. 


1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis. 


1939 - The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York. 


1942 - In France, Pierre Laval declared "I wish for a German victory". 


1944 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war. 


1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United States to be 18. 


1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights. 


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal's parole. 


1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.