Right this moment is Sunday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2025. There are 192 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On June 22, 1938, in a rematch that bore the burden of each geopolitical symbolism and African American illustration, American Joe Louis knocked out German Max Schmeling in simply two minutes and 4 seconds to retain his heavyweight boxing title in entrance of 70,000 spectators at New York’s Yankee Stadium.
Additionally on this date:
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated for a second time as Emperor of the French.
1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, an enormous and in the end ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union that might show pivotal to the Allied victory over the Axis Powers.
In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, extra popularly generally known as the “GI Bill of Rights,” which supplied tuition protection, unemployment help and low-interest dwelling and enterprise loans to returning veterans.
In 1945, the World Warfare II Battle of Okinawa ended with an Allied victory.
In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that lowered the minimal voting age to 18.
In 1977, John N. Mitchell grew to become the primary former U.S. Lawyer Normal to go to jail as he started serving a sentence for his function within the Watergate cover-up.
In 1981, Mark David Chapman pleaded responsible to killing rock star and former Beatle John Lennon.
In 1986, Argentine soccer participant Diego Maradona scored the notorious “Hand of God” purpose within the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup in opposition to England, giving Argentina a 1-0 lead. (Maradona would observe minutes later with a exceptional particular person effort that change into generally known as the “Goal of the Century,” and Argentina received 2-1.)
In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, in R.A.V. v. Metropolis of St. Paul, unanimously dominated that “hate crime” legal guidelines that banned cross burning and comparable expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
In 2011, after evading arrest for 16 years, mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger was captured in Santa Monica, California.
In 2012, former Penn State assistant soccer coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted by a jury in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, on 45 counts of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years. (Sandusky would later be sentenced to 30 to 60 years in jail.)
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Actor Prunella Scales is 93.
- Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer is 82.
- Fox Information analyst Brit Hume is 82.
- Musician-producer Peter Asher (Peter and Gordon) is 81.
- Musician-producer Todd Rundgren is 77.
- Actor Meryl Streep is 76.
- Actor Lindsay Wagner is 76.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is 76.
- Actor Graham Greene is 73.
- Singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper is 72.
- Actor Bruce Campbell is 67.
- Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is 65.
- Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is 65.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Clyde Drexler is 63.
- Actor Amy Brenneman is 61.
- Creator Dan Brown is 61.
- Actor Mary Lynn Rajskub is 54.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Kurt Warner is 54.
- TV character Carson Daly is 52.
- Actor Donald Faison is 51.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Champ Bailey is 47.
- Golfer Dustin Johnson is 41.
