June 22

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1903: Ben Robertson, future Clemson graduate and journalist who writes "Red Hills and Cotton" in 1941, published 1942, is born in Clemson.
1905: Dr. Richard Newman Brackett signs off on the foreward of his history of the Old Stone Church, published under the auspices of The Old Stone Church and Cemetery Association with the cooperation of the Andrew Pickens and Cateechee Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution.
1963: The United States Navy launches SSBN-630, the U.S.S. John C. Calhoun, a Polaris missile submarine, at Newport News, Virginia. The vessel is christened by Miss Rosalie Julia Calhoun, the statesman's great-great-granddaughter, with her father, Admiral William Lowndes Calhoun (Ret.), and mother, Mrs. William Lowndes Calhoun, in attendance. (Cook, Harriet Heffner, "John C. Calhoun - the Man", The R.L. Bryan Co., Columbia, S.C., 1965, Library of Congress Card No. 65-19779, page 2.)