It happened on a… June 22

2021

Unesco says Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be put on list of World Heritage Sites that are “in danger”.

2016

NHL owners meeting unanimously approves the Las Vegas expansion bid to start play in the 2017-18 season.

2009

Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.

1991

NHL Draft: Oshawa Generals center Eric Lindros first pick by Quebec Nordiques.

1963

“Little” Stevie Wonder aged 13 releases his first single “Fingertips”.

1960

Jean Lesage and his Liberal Party defeat Maurice Duplessis’ Union Nationale Party to win their first election in 16 years; beginning of the ‘Quiet Revolution.’

1937

Joe Louis KOs James J Braddock in 8 for his first heavyweight boxing title in significant moment in African American sporting history.

1914

Diving operations start to sunken Empress of Ireland to recover bodies and valuables from the wreck.

1911

King George V crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea.

1815

Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.

1603

Samuel de Champlain lands at site of Quebec; no sign of Jacques Cartier’s Iroquois village of Stadacona.