June 22
is the 173rd day of the year (174th in
leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining.
*
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.
*
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
*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, see
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy* 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
*
1984 -
Lindsay Pagano, American singer
*
1985 -
Karla Cossio, Mexican actress
*
1987 -
Melanie Banville, Canadian gymnast
*
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)
*
1894 -
Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b.
1823)
*
1905 -
Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b.
1815)
*
1913 -
Ştefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b.
1875)
*
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, 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)
* Anti-fascist struggle day in
CroatiaLiturgical 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)
*
The 22 June song*
BBC: On This DayJune 21 -
June 23 -
May 22 -
July 22 --
listing of all days
