June 22

It's June 22nd

On this day in 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
The poisonous cloud drifted to Bergen in Denmark–Norway, then spread to Prague in the Kingdom of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) by 17 June, Berlin by 18 June, Paris by 20 June, Le Havre by 22 June, and Great Britain by 23 June. The fog was so thick that ships stayed in port, unable to navigate, and the sun was described as "blood coloured"

In 1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.


Coven - "Coven in Charring Cross"

In 1974 - Uriah Heep released "Wonderworld"


In 1981 - Killing Joke released "What's THIS For...!"


In 1982 - Oingo Boing released "Nothing to Fear"


In 1988 - Robert Palmer released "Heavy Nova"


In 2018 - Nine Inch Nails released "Bad Witch"


Birthdays:

Cyndi Lauper


Derek Forbes


Bruce Campbell
as Ash Williams in
"Evil Dead"
"Evil Dead II"
"Army of Darkness"


Humphrey Ocean
"Black Love Chair"





Tim Russ as Carter in "Eve of Destruction"


Craig Gruber


Green Gartside


Freddie Prinze


Lindsay Wagner
as Irene DaSilva in "Nighthawks"


Todd Rundgren


Peter Asher


Piss Pissedofferson
as the Minstrel Wrangler in "The Last Movie"

as Cisco Pike in "Cisco Pike"


Oskar Fischinger
"Multiwave"


Billy Wilder



Raymonde Allain
as Ethyl Lloyd in "The Tunnel"


Anne Ziegler


Marguerite De La Motte
as Lolita Pulido in "The Mark of Zorro"


"Midsummer Eve" by Edward Robert Hughes

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