06-21-2004, 06:39 PM
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June 22nd
166 BC ~ The Third Macedonian War ended with the Battle of Pydna, when the Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated and captured the Macedonian King Perseus.
1757 ~ Birthday of George Vancouver, Navigator & Naval Surveyor.
1837 ~ Birthday of Paul Morphy, Chess Phenomenon.
1846 ~ The saxophone was patented by Adolphe Sax.
1856 ~ Birthday of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
1906 ~ Birthday of Billy Wilder, Director.
1941 ~ In one of - if not THE - turning points of World War II, in Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union.
1944 ~ Three years to the day of the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration began against Army Group Centre.
1976 ~ The Canadian House of Commons abolished capital punishment.
2002 ~ Death of Ann Landers, Columnist.
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