June 22: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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.
• 1844 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1941 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins
• 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.
• 1978 - Charon, a satellite of the planet Pluto, is discovered.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 2003 - Bill Clinton releases his memoirs, entitled My Life

• 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)
• 1757 - George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
• 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
• 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
• 1856 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (d. 1925)
• 1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
• 1887 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
• 1897 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
• 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
• 1899 - Michał Kalecki, Polish economist
• 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)
• 1910 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
• 1910 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
• 1920 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986)
• 1921 - Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
• 1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
• 1930 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and murder victim (d. 1932)
• 1930 - John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-born Catholic prelate (d. 1997)
• 1933 - Dianne Feinstein, Mayor of San Francisco and U.S. Senator
• 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter, and actor
• 1936 - Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician
• 1941 - Ed Bradley, American journalist
• 1943 - Brit Hume, American news anchor and commentator
• 1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
• 1947 - David Lander, American actor and baseball scout
• 1948 - Todd Rundgren, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
• 1948 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
• 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)
• 1958 - Bruce Campbell, American actor
• 1961 - Stephen Batchelor, British field hockey player
• 1962 - John Tenta, Canadian wrestler
• 1964 - Dan Brown, American author
• 1964 - Dicky Barrett, American singer (Mighty Mighty Bosstones)
• 1966 - Michael Park, WRC co-pilot (d. 2005)
• 1968 - Darrell Armstrong, Basketball Player
• 1970 - Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
• 1971 - Kurt Warner, American football player
• 1971 - Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress
• 1973 - Carson Daly, American television personality
• 1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player
• 1978 - Dan Wheldon, British race car driver

• 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)
• 1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
• 1928 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
• 1931 - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)
• 1959 - Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
• 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)
• 1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
• 1988 - Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1918)
• 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)
• 1995 - Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)
• 1997 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)
• 2002 - Darryl Kile, 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)

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