Today is Wednesday, June 22, the 174th day of 2016. There are 192 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1611, English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers aboard the Discovery.
In 1870, the United States Department of Justice was created.
In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the “GI Bill of Rights.”
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In 1945, the World War II battle for Okinawa ended with an Allied victory.
In 1959, the Swedish film “Wild Strawberries,” written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, opened in New York.
In 1969, singer-actress Judy Garland died in London at age 47.
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