Carpenter Ant Awareness Week (June 22-28)
Birth anniversaries of Bill Blass (1922-2002), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001), Billy Wilder (1906-2002).
Happy Birthday! Klaus Maria Brandauer, Todd Rundgren, Lindsay Wagner
1772 - Slavery was outlawed in England.
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.
1941 - Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
1942 - A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller's book, "Tropic of Cancer", could not be banned.
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.
1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.
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