Today is Monday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2009. There are 192 days left in the year.
1772 - Slavery outlawed in England
1775 - First continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
1815 - Second abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
1847 - Doughnut created
1938 - Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of the first round at Yankee Stadium
1940 - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
1941 - Germany declares war on the Soviet Union during WWII
1978 - Pluto’s moon Charon discovered by James Christy
1983 - First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by space shuttle
1991 - Underwater volcano, Mt. Didicas, erupts in the Philippines