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. 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 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. 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.
Births1684 - 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 scholar1941 - Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent1943 - Brit Hume, FOX News anchor and commentator1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor1947 - David Lander, actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)1948 - Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, recording producer1949 - Meryl Streep, actress1952 - Graham Greene, actor1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer1954 - Freddie Prinze, Actor/comedian (d. 1977)1958 - Bruce Campbell, actor1970 - Steven Page, singer for Barenaked Ladies1971 - Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP1973 - Carson Daly, talk show host, MTV VJ1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player 1978 - Dan Wheldon, IRL race car driver1990 - Michael Hayball, person extraordinaireDeaths431 - Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet1276 - Pope Innocent V1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill1868 - Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)1959 - Hermann Brill, politician1965 - David O. Selznick, movie producer1969 - Judy Garland, singer, actress1974 - Darius Milhaud, composer1987 - Fred Astaire, dancer, actor1988 - Dennis Day, singer, actor1993 - Pat Nixon, wife of president Richard M. Nixon1995 - Al Hansen, artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck1997 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)2002 - Darryl Kile, Major League baseball player 2002 - Ann Landers, columnist2003 - Daniel M. Jares, Medical Doctor2004 - Mattie J.T. Stepanek, poet
External links BBC: On This Day
June 21 - June 23 - May 22 - July 22 -- listing of all days
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