June 22

June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator 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: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
• 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
• 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• 1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
• 1825 – The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
• 1844 – North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
• 1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
• 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.
• 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
• 1898 – Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
• 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
• 1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
• 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• 1922 – Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
• 1940 – France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
• 1941 – Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. The Soviet 22 June Song is dedicated to this day.
• 1941 – The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
• 1941 – Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
• 1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
• 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
• 1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
• 1957 – The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
• 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
• 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river.
• 1976 – The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
• 1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James Christy.
• 1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
• 1986 – Diego Maradona scored his infamous Hand of God goal against England in the World Cup quarter-final. Argentina went on to win the match 2-1.
• 1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
• 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 M_w strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slowness of the victims receiving aid and supplies.
• 2003 – The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska
• 2009 – Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.
• 2009 – Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.

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 Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
• 1738 – Jacques Delille, French poet and 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 master (d. 1884)
• 1845 – Tom Dula, American folk character (Tom Dooley) (d. 1868)
• 1856 – H. Rider Haggard, English writer (d. 1925)
• 1861 – Maximilian von Spee, Denmark-born German admiral (d. 1914)
• 1864 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
• 1871 – William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)
• 1884 – James Rector, American sprinter (d. 1949)
• 1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
• 1887 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
• 1888 – Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964)
• 1892 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1897 – Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
• 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 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
• 1903 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and pilot, wife of Charles Lindbergh (d. 2001)
• 1906 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American film director (d. 2002)
• 1907 – Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
• 1909 – Maurice Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
• 1910 – John Hunt, India-born British leader of the 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
• 1910 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computer pioneer, built the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3 (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
• 1916 – Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
• 1919 – Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986)
• 1920 – Jovito Salonga, Filipino politician and activist
• 1921 – Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
• 1922 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Mona Lisa, Filipino actress
• 1922 – Géza Vermes, Hungarian author and scholar of religious history and expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls
• 1927 – Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)
• 1930 – Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
• 1930 – Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer
• 1932 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Prunella Scales, English actress
• 1933 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician
• 1933 – Jacques Martin, French TV host (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Libor Pešek, Czech conductor
• 1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter and actor
• 1936 – Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician
• 1939 – Don Matthews, American football coach
• 1940 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker and poet
• 1940 – Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
• 1941 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
• 1941 – Michael Lerner, American actor
• 1943 – Judith Barker, English actress
• 1943 – Eumir Deodato, Brazilian jazz keyboardist, record producer and arranger
• 1943 – Brit Hume, American news anchor and commentator
• 1944 – Peter Asher, British singer, guitarist and producer (Peter & Gordon)
• 1944 – Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
• 1946 – Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
• 1947 – Octavia Butler, American author (d. 2006)
• 1947 – Howard Kaylan, American singer (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie)
• 1947 – David Lander, American actor and baseball scout
• 1947 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
• 1947 – Jerry Rawlings, President of Ghana
• 1948 – Todd Rundgren, American songwriter and record producer
• 1949 – Alan Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
• 1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress
• 1949 – Lindsay Wagner, American actress
• 1950 – Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
• 1952 – Graham Greene, Canadian actor
• 1953 – Wim Eijk, Dutch Roman Catholic Archbishop
• 1953 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer
• 1953 – Bruce McAvaney, Australian sports broadcaster
• 1954 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
• 1955 – Green Gartside, Welsh singer and songwriter (Scritti Politti)
• 1956 – Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani Politician and Foreign Minister
• 1956 – Tim Russ, American actor
• 1956 – Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist
• 1957 – Danny Baker, English comedy writer and radio presenter
• 1957 – Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist (INXS)
• 1958 – Bruce Campbell, American actor
• 1959 – Wayne Federman, American comedian
• 1959 – Nicola Sirkis, French singer and lyricist (Indochine)
• 1959 – Ed Viesturs, American mountaineer
• 1959 – Mike O'Meara, radio host of Don and Mike Show and Mike O'Meara Show
• 1960 – Erin Brockovich-Ellis, American environmental activist
• 1960 – Tracy Pollan, American actress
• 1961 – Stephen Batchelor, British field-hockey player
• 1961 – Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards)
• 1962 – Clyde Drexler, American basketball player
• 1962 – Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director
• 1962 – Bobby Gillespie, Scottish vocalist and drummer (Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain)
• 1963 – Randy Couture, American mixed martial artist
• 1963 – Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna
• 1963 – John Tenta ("Earthquake"), Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
• 1964 – Amy Brenneman, American actress
• 1964 – Dan Brown, American writer
• 1965 – Ľubomír Moravčík, Slovak footballer
• 1965 – Uwe Boll, German film director
• 1966 – Schooly D, American rapper
• 1966 – Michael Park, English WRC co-pilot (d. 2005)
• 1966 – Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
• 1967 – Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1968 – Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
• 1970 – Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, painter, poet, novelist, songwriter, record producer and businessman
• 1970 – Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
• 1971 – Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress
• 1971 – Kurt Warner, American football player
• 1972 – David Rees, American cartoonist
• 1973 – Carson Daly, American television personality
• 1974 – Donald Faison, American actor
• 1974 – Vijay, Indian actor
• 1975 – Kenshin Kawakami, Japanese baseball player
• 1975 – Andreas Klöden, German cyclist
• 1975 – Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress
• 1976 – Gordon Moakes, English multi-instrumentalist (Bloc Party)
• 1978 – Champ Bailey, American football player
• 1978 – Tim Driesen, Belgian actor, singer and songwriter
• 1978 – Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality
• 1978 – Dan Wheldon, British race car driver
• 1979 – Joey Cheek, American speed skater
• 1979 – Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
• 1979 – Leire Martínez, Spanish-Basque singer and songwriter (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
• 1979 – Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist
• 1981 – Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors)
• 1982 – Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
• 1982 – Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
• 1984 – Dustin Johnson, American golfer
• 1984 – Jerome Taylor, Jamaican West Indies international cricketer
• 1984 – Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
• 1985 – Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
• 1985 – Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek-Cameroonian basketball player
• 1985 – Scott MacIntyre, American singer
• 1986 – Ramin Ott, American Samoan footballer
• 1987 – Joe Dempsie, English actor
• 1987 – Danny Green, American basketball player
• 1987 – Lee Min Ho, Korean actor
• 1987 – Nikita Rukavytsya, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player, the first Israeli in the NBA
• 1988 – Kieran Lee, English footballer
• 1989 – Cédric Mongongu, French-Congolese footballer
• 1989 – Jung Yong Hwa, Korean actor and singer
• 1990 – Kei Inoo, Japanese actor and singer
• 1990 – Sebastian Jung, German footballer
• 1993 – Ingmar Lazar, French classical pianist

Deaths

• 1276 – Pope Innocent V (b. c. 1225)
• 1429 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
• 1535 – John Fisher, English Bishop of Rochester (executed) (b. 1469)
• 1632 – James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)
• 1634 – Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (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 politician, President of France (b. 1841)
• 1933 – Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)
• 1935 – Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
• 1936 – Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (b. 1882)
• 1938 – C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Isamu Chō, Japanese general at Okinawa, by seppuku (b. 1895)
• 1945 – Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (died at Okinawa by seppuku) (b. 1887)
• 1959 – Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
• 1961 – Maria of Yugoslavia, Romanian-born 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)
• 1977 – Jacqueline Audry, French film director (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (b. 1952)
• 1979 – Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Dimitrios Partsalidis, Greek politician (b. 1905)
• 1984 – Joseph Losey, American theater 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, Canadian politician (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel 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)
• 1995 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 1997 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)
• 1997 – Don Henderson, English actor (b. 1932)
• 1997 – Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)
• 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, American computer scientist (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (b. 1970)
• 2006 – Moose (dog actor), dog actor popular for role on Frasier (b. 1990)
• 2007 – Nancy Benoit ("Woman", "Fallen Angel"), American professional wrestling valet (b. 1964)
• 2007 – Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)
• 2008 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Dody Goodman, American comedienne (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Jane McGrath, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner (b. 1966)

Holidays and observances

• Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
• Christian Feast Day
  • Aaron of Aleth
  • Alban
  • Eusebius of Samosata (Orthodox Church)
  • John Fisher (Catholic Church)
  • Nicetas of Remesiana
  • Paulinus of Nola
  • Thomas More (Catholic Church)
  • June 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Teacher's Day (El Salvador)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada