June 22: In history

[Mark Kohut]

[image: Diego Maradona]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diego_Maradona_cropped.jpg>
Diego Maradona

   - 1633 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1633> – Galileo Galilei
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei> was *forced to recant
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair>* his heliocentric
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism> view of the Solar System
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System> by the Roman Inquisition
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Inquisition>, after which, as
   legend has it, he muttered under his breath, "And yet it moves
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves>.
   -
   - 2016 John Lewis leads a sit-in on the floor of the House of
   Representatives because of legislative inaction on gun control laws.
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