JUNE 22
1941:The Axis powers launch Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union in the largest military operation in history.
1945: Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima, commander of the defenses of Okinawa, and another Japanese military officer commit suicide as U.S. troops wipe out the remaining organized Japanese resistance on the island, ending the bloody 83-day battle.
1981: Mark David Chapman tells a New York City court that God instructed him to plead guilty in the murder of musician John Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980. Chapman will be sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for killing the former Beatle; he continues to serve his time at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York.
1945: Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima, commander of the defenses of Okinawa, and another Japanese military officer commit suicide as U.S. troops wipe out the remaining organized Japanese resistance on the island, ending the bloody 83-day battle.
1981: Mark David Chapman tells a New York City court that God instructed him to plead guilty in the murder of musician John Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980. Chapman will be sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for killing the former Beatle; he continues to serve his time at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York.
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