Today in HistoryToday is Friday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2007. There are 192 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE

In 1807, a British frigate, the HMS Leopard, attacked and boarded the American ship USS>Chesapeake<$> off the Virginia coast in search of Royal Navy deserters.

In 1940, France’s Gen. Charles Huntziger signed the terms of surrender with Germany at Compiegne, in the same railway carriage in which Gen. Foch had received the German surrender in 1918.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Children are God’s spies.” — Elizabeth Bowen, Irish author (1899-1973).