GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS SUNDAY, June 22, the 172nd day of 2014 with 192 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:07 and sunset is @ 8:25. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are stars are Neptune, Uranus & Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury & Saturn.
ON THIS DAY IN: 1611 – After spending a winter trapped by ice in (now named)
Hudson Bay, the crew of theDiscovery mutinied against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and set him, his teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat. Hudson and the others were never seen again.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
1868 – Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
1870 – The U.S. Congress created the Department of Justice.
1874 – Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first practice of osteopathy.
1910 – German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announced a cure for syphilis.
1933 – Adolf Hitler banned political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
1941 – Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
1944 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill of Rights, authorizing a broad package of benefits for World War II veterans.
1970 – President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
1981 – Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to killing rock star John Lennon.
2004 – A federal judge in San Francisco granted class-action status to a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores.