June 22

Today in History
• 1377 - 10-year-old Richard of Bordeaux succeeds Edward III as Richard II, king of England
• 1535 - Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London
• 1559 - Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted
• 1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, and others set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers
• 1633 - Galileo Galilei recants his "heretical" position that the Earth orbiting the Sun
• 1740 - King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture and guarantees religion and freedom of the press
• 1775 - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
• 1832 - John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• B Kinder
• Dragon Boat Festival
• Glastonbury Festival
• National Chocolate Eclair Day
• National HVAC Tech Day
• Positive Media Day
• Windrush Day
• World Rainforest Day

Birthdays
• 1478 - Philips de Schone, Archduke of Austrian/King of Castilia
• 1674 - Jean Philippe Eugène de Mérode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo
• 1713 - Lord John Sackville, English politician (MP Tamworth 1734-47)
• 1757 - George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from San Francisco to Vancouver I
• 1805 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary, Il Apostolato Popolare
• 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player considered the greatest of his era (1857-61)
• 1845 - Richard Seddon, New Zealand politician (longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand)
• 1869 - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch army officer and Anti-Revolution Party (ARP) politician)