June 22 Dateline

Birthdays

1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist, best known for his landmark anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, about the German military experience of World War I, was an international best-seller which created a new literary genre, and was subsequently made into the film of the same name.

1906 - Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist, regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmaker of the Golden Age cinema of Hollywood.  Famous for The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, and Stalag 17. (Stalag 17 Full Movie. Uploaded by Afeem Charas. Accessed June 22, 2015. Sunset Boulevard Explained: The Hollywood Nightmare. Uploaded by The Take. Accessed June 22, 2019).

1910 - Sir Peter Pears, English tenor and co-founder with Benjamin Britten, of the Aldeburgh Festival. Listen to Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten discuss Schubert's great cycle "Die Winterreise," D.911 (1968), including "Frühlingstraum", "Im Dorfe", and "Der Leiermann". Indeed, this admirable brilliant couple brought much understanding to everything they approached.

1949 - Meryl Streep (born Mary Louise Streep), American actress. Often described as the "best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accents. Nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, she has won three.

1953 - Cyndi Lauper (born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper), American singer, songwriter, actress and activist. Her album She's So Unusual was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—and earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture The Goonies and her second record True Colors.

1964 - Dan Gerhard Brown, American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno and Origin. His novels feature recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories. Someof them have been adapted into films. The Robert Langdon novels are deeply engaged with Christian themes and historical fact, generating controversy as a result. Brown states on his website that his books are not anti-Christian, though he is on a "constant spiritual journey" himself. He claims that his book The Da Vinci Code is simply "an entertaining story that promotes spiritual discussion and debate" and suggests that it may be used "as a positive catalyst for introspection and exploration of our faith."

1973 - Carson Jones Daly, American television and radio personality.  He has been involved at NBC, such as becoming host for its reality music competition The Voice in 2011, and joining NBC's morning show Today, with his role increasing in subsequent years becoming a co-host. Daly has served as a radio DJ. He also hosts a weekly top 30 countdown show The Daly Download with Carson Daly which is produced by Entercom (formerly CBS Radio and is the parent of KAMP-FM) and syndicated though Westwood One.

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More birthdays and historical events today, 22 June - On This Day.

Historical Events

1377 - Richard II becomes King of England on the death of Edward III. He is ten years old. He is formally crowned in Westminster Abbey on July 16, 1377.

1633 - Rome's Vatican Holy Office forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Earth rotates around the sun, on pain of torture.

1941 - Nazi Germany invades the USSR in Operation Barbarossa. Despite early success the Nazis got bogged down especially at Leningrad. Meanwhile the Allies join forces with the USSR. 

1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, lowering the voting age to 18. 

1973 - The three Skylab 2 astronauts splash down safely i the Pacific after a then-record 28 days in space.

1978 - Astronomer James Christy discovers Charon, Pluto's largest moon.  Studying and poring over highly magnified images of  Pluto, he noticed an "anomaly" appearing at certain intervals, and spots a recurring bulge on planet Pluto's images. After intense analysis, the astronomer realized that he had found Pluto's first known moon. He named it "Charon" (after he ferryman on the River Styx, and pronounced in honour of his wife, Charlene.)  On further investigation shows that his discovery is about helf the diameter of Pluto itself, making the two more like twin planets. Studies also suggest that Charon's surface is covered in water ice. (1994 Image of Pluto and Charon (right), from ESA/Dornier Faint Object Camera on the Hubble Telescope after it was corrected. (Wiki public domain).

1996 - The computer game "Quake" is released marking a new era of games with advanced modeling and more realistic textures.



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