Today is Sunday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2025 with 192 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Mars.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include writer H. Rider Haggard in 1856; writer Erich Remarque in 1898; bank robber John Dillinger in 1903; filmmaker Billy Wilder in 1906; writer/aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh in 1906; musician/actor Kris Kristofferson in 1936; filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in 1940; TV journalist Ed Bradley in 1941; news commentator Brit Hume in 1943 (age 82); actor Klaus Maria Brandauer in 1943 (age 82); writer Octavia Butler in 1947; Basketball Hall of Fame member Pete Maravich in 1947; musician Todd Rundgren in 1948 (age 77); actor Meryl Streep in 1949 (age 76); actor Lindsay Wagner in 1949 (age 76); musician Alan Osmond in 1949 (age 76); actor Graham Greene in 1952 (age 73); musician Cyndi Lauper in 1953 (age 72); actor Freddie Prinze in 1954; musician Derek Forbes (Simple Minds) in 1956 (age 69); musician Garry Beers (INXS) in 1957 (age 68); actor Bruce Campbell in 1958 (age 67); musician Alan Anton (Cowboy Junkies) in 1959 (age 66); actor Tracy Pollan in 1960 (age 65); activist Erin Brockovich in 1960 (age 65); Basketball Hall of Fame member Clyde Drexler in 1962 (age 63); actor Amy Brenneman in 1964 (age 61); writer Dan Brown in 1964 (age 61); musician Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies) in 1970 (age 55); actor Mary Lynn Rajskub in 1971 (age 54); TV personality Carson Daly in 1973 (age 52); musician Chris Traynor (Bush) in 1973 (age 52); actor Donald Faison in 1974 (age 51); actor Lecy Goranson in 1974 (age 51); comedian Mike O'Brien in 1976 (age 49); TV personality Jai Rodriguez in 1979 (age 46); actor/performer Bob the Drag Queen in 1986 (age 39); musician Dinah Jane Hansen (Fifth Harmony) in 1997 (age 28).
On this date in history:
Related
In 1918, an empty troop train rear-ended the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train in Ivanhoe, Ind., killing 53 circus performers and many animals. The circus train had stopped to fix its brakes.
In 1940, France fell to Germany in World War II. Nazi and French leaders signed the second armistice at Compiègne, France, in Ferdinand Foch's Railway Car.
In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
In 1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pledge to try to avoid nuclear war.
In 1977, former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell entered a federal prison for Watergate crimes. He was released for medical reasons 19 months later.
In 2011, reputed former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, indicted in 19 homicides, was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., ending a 16-year manhunt. Bulger was sentenced to life in prison.
In 2012, accused child-molester Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was convicted on 45 sex-abuse charges. He was sentenced to up to 60 years in prisoned and died in 2018.
In 2023, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that all five people aboard the Titan submersible that lost contact during a dive to view the Titanic wreckage were presumed dead. Searchers had earlier discovered a debris field on the ocean floor in their quest for the men.
A thought for the day: "I was born at the age of 12 on an MGM lot." -- American actor Judy Garland
