22 June

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 22 June:

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1. In 1950, Charles Sappal of Riverview, Florida, USA, was killed by a Lightning bolt. He'd survived being struck by lightning in the previous year at the same spot, when a bottle was knocked from his hand.
2. In 1964, The Beatles played their first ever show in New Zealand, at Wellington Town Hall. The local Chief Constable refused a police escort for them, leaving just two policemen to control over 5,000 fans.
3. In 2000, after giving himself various new identities during the 90's, The Artist Formally Known As Prince announced that he wanted to be known as Prince again.
4. In 2003, in Aurora, Nebraska, the largest hailstone ever was recovered after a storm. It officially measured 7 inches in diameter with a circumference of 18.75 inches, although a good chunk of it broke off on impact and some of it was lost to melting before it could be measured.
5. In 1996 Harrods put on sale a bottled Beer at £50 per bottle. It had been made from an Ancient Egyptian recipe, from archaeological evidence.
6. The Northern Line was opened on the London Underground on this date in 1907.
7. The Royal Greenwich Observatory established by Charles II on this date in 1675.
8. In 1978, Charon, Pluto's largest satellite, was discovered by James Christy, who first saw it when reviewing photographs of Pluto. Christy proposed the name "Charon" after his wife, Charlene, and the Greek mythological figure who leads the souls of the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron.
9. On this date in 1939, the future Queen Elizabeth II first met her future husband, Philip. 
10. In 1535, Queen Anne Boleyn received the head of Bishop Fisher as a gift; the bishop had opposed her marriage to King Henry VIII. (She would have preferred a cut glass decanter, but forgot to make a proper wedding list.)

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