Today is Wednesday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2011. There are 192 days left in the year.
1772 ― Slavery outlawed in England
1815 ― Second abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
1847 ― Doughnut created
1874 ― Dr. Andrew T. Sill, of Macon, Mo., finds science of osteopathy
1940 ― France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
1941 ― Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1977 ― Former Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
1981 ― Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
1983 ― First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
1990 ― Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit