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

    June 22
        Events
        Births
        Deaths
        Holidays and Observances
            Liturgical Feasts
        See also

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.

1812 - Napoleonic Wars- Napoleon invades Russia.

1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.

1844 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.

1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.

1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.

1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Camperdown'' accidentally 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.

1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.

1918 - Hammond circus train wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.

1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France

1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.

1940 - The Nagpur conference of the All India Forward Bloc concludes, declared the Bloc as a socialist party.

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 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins

1941 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.

1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre

1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113

1963 - Giovanni Cardinal Montini elected Pope by the College of Cardinals, and takes the name Pope Paul VI.

1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.

1978 - Charon, a satellite of the planet Pluto, is discovered.

1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.

1986 - The All Jharkhand Students Union is founded, in order to fight for autonomy for tribal peoples in India.

2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.

Births

1680 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)

1684 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)

1704 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)

1713 - Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)

1738 - Jacques Delille, French poet, translator (d. 1813)

1757 - George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)

1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)

1805 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (d. 1872)

1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)

1856 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (d. 1925)

1861 - Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)

1864 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)

1871 - William McDougall, British psychologist, polymath (d. 1938)

1879 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)

1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)

1887 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)

1892 - Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)

1897 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)

1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)

1899 - Michał Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)

1902 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)

1903 - Carl Hubbell, baseball player (d. 1988)

1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)

1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (d. 2001)

1906 - Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002)

1907 - Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)

1910 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)

1910 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)

1919 - Gower Champion, dancer, choreographer, actor and director (d. 1980)

1920 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986)

1921 - Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)

1922 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (d. 2002)

1927 - Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)

1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)

1930 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and murder victim (d. 1932)

1933 - Dianne Feinstein, Former mayor of San Francisco and U.S. Senator

1936 - Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter, and actor

1936 - Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician

1940 - Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter

1941 - Ed Bradley, American journalist

1943 - Brit Hume, American news anchor and commentator

1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor

1944 - Peter Asher, British singer, guitarist and producer (Peter & Gordon)

1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist, member of Buena Vista Social Club

1947 - Octavia Butler, American author (d. 2006)

1947 - Jerry Rawlings, Former President of Ghana

1947 - David Lander, American actor and baseball scout

1947 - Howard Kaylan, founding member of The Turtles

1947 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)

1948 - Todd Rundgren, American singer, songwriter, and record producer

1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress

1949 - Lindsay Wagner, American actress

1949 - Alan Osmond, American singer

1952 - Graham Greene, Canadian actor

1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer

1954 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)

1956 - Tim Russ, American actor

1957 - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS

1958 - Bruce Campbell, American actor

1959 - Wayne Federman, American comedian, actor, author

1961 - Stephen Batchelor, British field hockey player

1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer Bronski Beat, Communards and solo]

1962 - Clyde Drexler, NBA player

1963 - Randy Couture, Greco-Roman wrestler and mixed martial artist

1963 - John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (d. 2006)

1964 - Dan Brown, American author

1964 - Dicky Barrett, American singer (Mighty Mighty Bosstones)

1965 - Lubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer

1966 - Michael Park, WRC co-pilot (d. 2005)

1966 - Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress

1968 - Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player

1970 - Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)

1971 - Kurt Warner, American football player

1971 - Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress

1972 - Miguel Del Toro, Mexican baseball player

1973 - Carson Daly, American television personality

1974 - Donald Faison, American Actor

1975 - Andreas Klöden, German professional road bicycle racer

1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player

1978 - Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality

1978 - Dan Wheldon, British race car driver

1979 - Joey Cheek, American speed skater

1979 - Thomas Voeckler, French road bicycle racer

1979 - Brad Hawpe, American baseball player

1982 - Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model

1984 - Lindsay Pagano, American singer

1985 - Karla Cossio, Mexican actress

1987 - Melanie Banville, Canadian gymnast

Deaths

431 - Paulinus of Nola, Roman poet

1276 - Pope Innocent V

1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)

1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed)

1632 - James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)

1634 - Johann Graf von Aldringen, Austrian soldier (b. 1588)

1699 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)

1714 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)

1868 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)

1874 - Howard Staunton, English chess master (b. 1810)

1892 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)

1894 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)

1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)

1913 - Ştefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)

1925 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)

1928 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)

1931 - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)

1935 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)

1959 - Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)

1961 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)

1963 - Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)

1964 - Havank, Dutch writer (b. 1904)

1965 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)

1969 - Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)

1974 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)

1979 - Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)

1984 - Joseph Losey, American theather and film director (b. 1909)

1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)

1988 - Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)

1989 - Lucien Saulnier, French Canadian politician (b. 1916)

1990 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)

1992 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)

1993 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)

1994 - Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (b. 1903)

1995 - Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)

1997 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)

1997 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)

2002 - Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)

2002 - Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)

2004 - Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)

2004 - Bob Bemer, computer scientist (b. 1920)

2006 - Moose, dog actor who played Eddie in Frasier (b. 1990)

Holidays and Observances

Anti-fascist struggle day in Croatia

Internation Mol Day in Chemistry.

Liturgical Feasts

?Saint Alban see June 21#Holidays and Observances

Saint John Fisher (died 1535)

Saint Paulinus of Nola (died 431)

Saint Thomas More (died 1535)

Blessed Lambert (died 1125)

See also

The 22 June song

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