Thursday, June 22, 2000
History today -- 8:13 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
- 1868: Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
- 1870: Congress created the Department of Justice.
- 1911: Britain's King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- 1934: Ferdinand Porsche contracted with the Automobile Manufacturers Association of Germany (RDA) to build three prototype "people’s cars" over a ten-month period. The contract was a direct result of Hitler’s personal request to Porsche, and the result was the Volkswagen.
- 1941: Operation Barbarossa--the German invasion of the U.S.S.R.--began with scores of German divisions storming across the Soviet Union’s 1,800-mile-long border.
- 1944: President Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill of Rights.
- 1945: The battle for Okinawa officially ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 81-day campaign.
- 1969: Singer-actress Judy Garland died in London at age 47.
- 1970, President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
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