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The Really Small Bad Day Almanac: June 22

1633: Bowing to pressure from the Vatican, Galileo Galilei recants his finding that the sun is the center of the universe, which is contrary to the Roman Catholic Church's teaching that Earth is the center.
1918: Eighty-six people die in the wreck of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana.
2009: In Washington D.C., nine people die when a passenger train collides at high speed into a passenger train waiting to enter the Fort Totten station.

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