1949
Jun 22, Meryl Streep, actress, was born in New Jersey. Her films included “French Lieutenant’s Woman," and “Sophie’s Choice."

1949
Jun 22, Lindsay Wagner, actress, was born in Los Angeles. Her films included “Bionic Woman," “Paper Chase," and “Nighthawks."

1983
Jun 22, Emanuela Orlandi (b.1968), the daughter of a Vatican messenger, disappeared after a music lesson in Rome. She was 15 at the time. Her self-proclaimed kidnappers demanded the release of Ali Agca, who wounded the Pope in 1981, for her freedom. They never offered any proof they had the girl or that she was alive.

1993
Jun 22, Former first lady Pat Nixon died in Park Ridge, N.J., at age 81.

2002
Jun 22, Esther Lederer (83) known as Ann Landers, the widely read columnist who famously urged her readers to "wake up and smell the coffee," died, in Chicago. She took over the Ann Landers column in the Chicago Sun Times in 1955.

2005
Jun 22, Consuelo Velazquez (b.1916), Mexican pianist and composer, died. Her music included Besame Mucho, first recorded in 1941 by Emilio Tuero. It was the romantic vision of a chaste, convent-educated teenager growing up in 1930s Mexico, and was inspired by the sight of a smooching couple in the street.

2008
Jun 22, Dody Goodman (b.1914) comedian and character actress, died in New Jersey. She had gained famed on Jack Paar’s late-night show (1957) and as the ditsy matriarch on the 1976 “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" soap opera.

2009
Jun 22, In Kansas 4 bodies, including a 3-year-old girl, were found on the front year of a Kansas City home. Adrian Burks (37) was arrested the next day and charged with aggravated battery in the beating of another man hours before the slayings. Two days later Burks was charged with the 4 murders.

2011
Jun 22, In Colombia women of Barbacoas announced that they would deny their partners sex until authorities began paving a 35-mile (57-km) road linking the town of 35,000 people with the provincial capital of Pasto. Army engineers began work on Oct 11 and the sex strike was declared over.

2014
Jun 22, In northern Nigeria suspected Islamist militants kidnapped as many as 91 villagers, most of them women and young girls, in Borno state. 63 girls and women managed to escape on July 4.