On this day: June 22Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa (1941)
Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group (1941)
The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river (1969)
President B. Hussein Obama announces his plan to pull 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan before his 2012 re-election (2011)
Progressive Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco (2012)
b: Dianne Feinstein (1933)
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