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is the 173rd day of the year (174th in
leap year
s) in the
Gregorian Calendar
, with 192 days remaining.
June 22
Events
Births
Deaths
Holidays and Observances
Liturgical Feasts
See also
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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
Macedon
ian 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
Italia
n 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
Croatia
n 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.
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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
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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
)
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Holidays and Observances
Anti-fascist struggle day in
Croatia
Internation Mol Day in
Chemistry
.
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Liturgical Feasts
?
Saint Alban
see
June 21#Holidays and Observances
Saint John Fisher
(died 1535)
Saint Paulinus of Nola
(died 431)
Saint Sighild
Saint Thomas More
(died 1535)
Blessed Lambert
(died 1125)
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The 22 June song
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