TODAY IN HISTORY 1969

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

June 22, 1944

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the “GI Bill of Rights.”

ALSO ON THIS DATE

1611

English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in presentday Hudson Bay by mutineers aboard the Discovery.

1870

The United States Department of Justice was created.

1911

Britain’s King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1937

Joe Louis began his reign as world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jim Braddock in the eighth round of their fight in Chicago.

1940

During World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.

1941

Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive invasion of the Soviet Union.

1945

The World War II battle for Okinawa ended with an Allied victory. Singer-actress Judy Garland died in London at age 47.

1977

John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up.