Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A faint bulge on a photographic plate of Pluto turned out to be a moon so large it nearly makes the pair a double planet.
On June 22, 1941, Hitler broke his pact with Stalin and sent millions of troops east in the largest land invasion ever attempted.
On June 22, 1633, Galileo was forced to kneel and renounce the idea that Earth moves around the Sun, then sentenced to house arrest.
