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UPI Almanac for Friday, June 22, 2018

On June 22, 1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pledge to try to avoid nuclear war.

By United Press International
President Richard Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev exchange pens used in signing an agreement on June 22, 1973, to avoid military confrontations and threats of force that might trigger nuclear war. The ceremony was in the East Room of the White House in Washington. File Photo by Frank Cancellare/UPI
President Richard Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev exchange pens used in signing an agreement on June 22, 1973, to avoid military confrontations and threats of force that might trigger nuclear war. The ceremony was in the East Room of the White House in Washington. File Photo by Frank Cancellare/UPI | License Photo

Today is Friday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2018 with 192 to follow.

The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn and Venus.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include English adventure novelist H. Rider Haggard (King Solomon's Mines, She) in 1856; German novelist Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front) in 1898; bank robber John Dillinger in 1903; baseball Hall of Fame member Carl Hubbell in 1903; movie director Billy Wilder in 1906; author/aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh in 1906; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in 1933 (age 85); singer/actor Kris Kristofferson in 1936 (age 82); TV journalist Ed Bradley in 1941; news commentator Brit Hume in 1943 (age 75); writer Octavia Butler in 1947; basketball Hall of Fame member Pete Maravich in 1947; rock musician Todd Rundgren in 1948 (age 70); actor Meryl Streep in 1949 (age 69); actor Lindsay Wagner in 1949 (age 69); actor Graham Greene in 1952 (age 66); pop singer Cyndi Lauper in 1953 (age 65); actor Freddie Prinze in 1954; actor Tracy Pollan in 1960 (age 58); activist Erin Brockovich in 1960 (age 58); basketball Hall of Fame member Clyde Drexler in 1962 (age 56); actor Amy Brenneman in 1964 (age 53); writer Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code) in 1964 (age 54); television host Carson Daly in 1973 (age 45); singer Dinah Jane Hansen in 1997 (age 21).

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On this date in history:

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.

In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

In 1965 movie mogul David O. Selznick, producer of Gone With The Wind, died at age 62.

In 1969, show business legend Judy Garland died of what a coroner called an unintentional overdose of sleeping pills. She was 47.

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 2003, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon offered to cede responsibility for security in some West Bank and Gaza Strip areas to the Palestinians.

In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate content and marketing of tobacco products for adults. It also outlawed cigarette ads in school and playground areas and the sale of flavored cigarettes designed for young people.

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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 prison.

In 2013, the fiery crash of a stunt biplane at an air show in Dayton, Ohio, killed wing walker Jane Wicker and pilot Charlie Schwenker.

In 2015, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for the state assembly to vote to remove the Confederate flag from Capitol grounds in the wake of a racially motivated shooting at a church that killed nine people in Charleston.


A thought for the day: "We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference." -- Joe Biden

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