On This Day:
Sunday June 22, 2014 This is the 173rd day of the year, with 192 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: metrical feet In poetry, a foot is the smallest unit of measurement, usually defined as a group of one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables. If a single line of the poem contains only one foot, it is called monometer; two feet, dimeter; three feet, trimeter; four feet, tetrameter; five feet, pentameter; six feet, hexameter; seven feet, heptameter; eight feet, octameter. More than six feet per line, however, is rare. The name given to the meter of a poem (e.g., iambic pentameter, dactylic hexameter) specifies the kind and number of feet in each line.
Holidays Feast day of St. Acacius, Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, St. Paulinus of Nola, St. Nicetas of Remesiana, and St. Eberhard of Salzburg.
Croatia: Antifascist Struggle Day.
Events 1611 - After spending a winter trapped by ice in (now named) Hudson Bay, the crew of the Discovery 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.
Births 1757 - George Vancouver, English navigator.
1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German-born author.
1906 - Billy Wilder, Academy Award-winning American director.
1907 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator, author.
1907 - Michael Todd (Avrom Godenborgen), American movie producer.
1921 - Joseph Papp (Papirofsky), Pulitzer Prize-winning theatrical producer and director.
1922 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer.
1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress.
1970 - Steven Page, Canadian musician.
1973 - Carson Daly, American television personality.
Deaths 1969 - Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm), American singer and actress.
1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and film actor.
1993 - Pat Nixon (born Thelma Catherine Ryan), first lady of the United States.
2002 - Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer), American syndicated advice columnist.
2008 - George Carlin, stand-up comedian, actor, and author, born in New York City.
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