Historical Events for 22nd June 2025

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1812 - Upon learning of plans by the Americans to execute a surprise attack, Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn British troops, results in a British surprise victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams
1868 - Arkansas re-joins the US
1921 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2)
1933 - German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden
1961 - Tony Sheridan and the Beatles, billed as The Beat Brothers, record "My Bonnie" and "The Saints", produced by Bert Kaempfert, in Hamburg, Germany
1980 - UEFA European Championship Final, Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy: Horst Hrubesch scores a double as Germany beats Belgium, 2-1
1990 - Adam Sandler joins "Saturday Night Live"
1996 - Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavyweight boxing title
2014 - US Open Women's Golf, Pinehurst Resort: Michelle Wie wins by 2 shots from Stacy Lewis for her first major title
2015 - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for the removal of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in wake of killings in a Charleston church

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On this day in 1985, an Air India jet flying from Montreal to Calcutta blew up off the Irish Coast killing all aboard. It was the  largest air disaster involving Canadian citizens. I was flying that evening from Montreal to Geneva and was in the departure lounge next to the Air India flight. I saw a dozen or more passengers slip through a temporary barrier set up at the Air India gate to avoid going through security. I wrote to the Minister of Transport about it but got blown off. They found the bomb had been smuggled aboard in Toronto where the flight originated. Whenever the anniversary of the disaster comes around I think of those people headed for their doom.