June 22

June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining.

Events

• 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom
• 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
• 1593 – Battle of Sisak: Slovene – Croat troops defeat the Turks
• 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
• 1825 – British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
• 1866 – Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
• 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidently rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• 1898 – Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
• 1937 – Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1911 – George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.
• 1940 – France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
• 1941 – Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
• 1941 – First Croatian anti-fascist armed unit (partisans) founded near Sisak, Croatia.
• 1941 – June coup in Lithuania against the Soviets starts
• 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre
• 1950 – The longship replica Ormen Friske, en route from Birka to Rotterdam, broke apart in the North Sea because of improper construction. All 15 crew members drowned.
• 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
• 1963 – Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
• 1976 – Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
• 1984 – William Schnoebelen and his wife Sharon are "saved" by a tract from Chick Publications. There is some debate over the reliability of this, however.
• 1986 – Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored the Hand of God goal against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
• 1989 – Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
• 1993 – Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, USA is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
• 1996 – The Quake computer game is released.
• 2002 – An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people
• 2003 – The largest hailstone ever recorded falls from a thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, USA.

Births

• 1684 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
• 1757 – George Vancouver, navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
• 1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
• 1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
• 1856 – H. Rider Haggard, author (d. 1925)
• 1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
• 1887 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
• 1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, writer (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Carl Hubbell, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
• 1903  – John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
• 1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (d. 2001)
• 1906  – Billy Wilder, director (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
• 1920 – Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
• 1930 – Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
• 1930  – Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime (d. 1932)
• 1936 – Kris Kristofferson, country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar
• 1941 – Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent
• 1943 – Brit Hume, FOX News anchor and commentator
• 1944 – Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor
• 1947 – David Lander, actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
• 1948 – Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, recording producer
• 1949 – Meryl Streep, actress
• 1952 – Graham Greene, actor
• 1953 – Cyndi Lauper, singer
• 1954 – Freddie Prinze, Actor/comedian (d. 1977)
• 1958 – Bruce Campbell, actor
• 1970 – Steven Page, singer for Barenaked Ladies
• 1971 – Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP
• 1973 – Carson Daly, talk show host, MTV VJ
• 1978 – Champ Bailey, American football player
• 1978  – Dan Wheldon, IRL race car driver

Deaths

• 431 – Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
• 1276 – Pope Innocent V
• 1535 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill
• 1868 – Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
• 1905 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
• 1959 – Hermann Brill, politician
• 1965 – David O. Selznick, movie producer
• 1969 – Judy Garland, singer, actress
• 1974 – Darius Milhaud, composer
• 1987 – Fred Astaire, dancer, actor
• 1988 – Dennis Day, singer, actor
• 1993 – Pat Nixon, wife of president Richard M. Nixon
• 1995 – Al Hansen, artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck
• 1997 – Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Darryl Kile, Major League baseball player
• 2002  – Ann Landers, columnist
• 2003 – Daniel M. Jares, Medical Doctor
• 2004 – Mattie J.T. Stepanek, poet

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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