# 22 Juin

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The **22nt o Juin** is the 173rd day o the year (174t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 192 days ti come.

## Events

1919: Banner o the Faroe Islands
1978: Charon
1990: Checkpoint Charlie
* 1675 - The Ryal Greenwich Observatory opens.
* 1774 - Great Breetain signs the Quebec Act.
* 1783 - The cloud o Iceland's Laki volcanae reaches Le Havre, Fraunce.
* 1893 - Ryal Navy battleship "HMS Camperdown" accidentally rams the Breetish Mediterranean flagship "HMS Victoria", killin 358 fowk.
* 1906 - The current Banner o Swaden is adoptit.
* 1911 - George V o the Unitit Kinrick is crouned.
* 1919 - The Banner o the Faroe Islands is raised for the first time.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Stairt o the Juin Uprisin in Lithuanie.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
* 1948 - Passenger disembark frae the *RMT Empire Windrush* at Tilbury Docks, Lunnon - it is the first ship cairryin post-Warld War II Caribbean immigrants tae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1974 - East Germany defeats Wast Germany 1-0 in a group gemme at the 1974 FIFA Warld Cup.
* 1976 - Canadae abolishes the daith penalty.
* 1978 - Pluto's muin Charon is discovered.
* 1982 - 1982 FIFA Warld Cup: Scotland are knockit oot at the group stage, efter a 2-2 draw wi the Soviet Union.
* 1986 - Diego Maradona scores the "Hand o God" goal for Argentinae against Ingland at the 1986 FIFA Warld Cup.
* 1990 - Checkpoint Charlie is remuivit in Berlin.
* 2000 - A ferry sinks in Sichuan province, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, killin 131 fowk.
* 2002 - A yirdquauk in Iran kills 261 fowk.
* 2008 - Filipino ferry "Princess o the Stars" runs agroond in a typhoon, killin 800 fowk.
* 2009 - John Bercow becomes Speaker o the Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 2010 - Mari Kiviniemi becomes Prime meenister o Finland.
* 2011 - Jyrki Katainen becomes Prime meenister o Finland.
* 2012 - Fernando Lugo is removed as Preses o Paraguay an replaced wi Federico Franco.
* 2016 - UEFA Euro 2016: Iceland maks it tae the knock-oot stages in its first major fitbaw toornament, defeatin Austrick 2-1 in the feenal group gemme.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The recordit nummer o cases o COVID-19 warldwide reaches 9 million; Brazil becomes the seicont kintra tae record at least 50,000 daiths.

## Births

Ada Yonath
Meryl Streep
* 1680 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scots meenister an theologian (d. 1754)
* 1757 - George Vancouver, Inglis splorer (d. 1798)
* 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher an statesman (d. 1835)
* 1792 - James Beaumont Neilson, Scots inventor (d. 1865)
* 1805 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian poleetical figur (d. 1872)
* 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
* 1848 - William Macewen, Scots surgeon (d. 1924)
* 1864 - Hermann Minkowski, Pols-German mathemateecian (d. 1909)
* 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German author (d. 1970)
* 1906 - Billy Wilder, Austrick-American film director (d. 2002)
* 1910 - Konrad Zuse, German ingineer (d. 1995)
* 1911 - Princess Cecilie o Greece an Denmark (d. 1937)
* 1921 - Barbara Perry, American actress (d. 2019)
* 1928 - Ralph Waite, American actor (d. 2014)
* 1933 - Dianne Feinstein, American politeecian
* 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, American sangster
* 1939 - Ada Yonath, Israeli chemist an creestalografer
* 1940 - Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, screenwriter an producer (d. 2016)
* 1943 - J. Michael Kosterlitz, Scots-American pheesicist
* 1944 - Helmut Dietl, German film director (d. 2015)
* 1946 - Jozef Oleksy, Pols politeecian (d. 2015)
* 1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
* 1949 - Elizabeth Warren, American politeecian
* 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American sangster an actress
* 1959 - Nicola Sirkis, French sangster, sangwriter an frontman o Indochine
* 1964 - Dan Brown, American author
* 1970 - Paul Wheelhouse, Scots politeecian
* 1974 - Jo Cox, Inglis politeecian (d. 2016)
* 1984 - Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
* 1988 - Mark Stewart, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths

* 1276 - Pape Innocent V (b. 1225)
* 1936 - Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (b. 1882)
* 1969 - Judy Garland, American actress (b. 1922)
* 1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer, sangster and actor (b. 1899)
* 1990 - Ilya Frank, Roushie pheesicist (b. 1908)
* 1993 - Pat Nixon, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1912)
* 2008 - George Carlin, American actor an comedian (b. 1937)
* 2012 - Jackie Neilson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1929)
* 2015 - James Horner, American film score componer (b. 1953)

## Halidays

* Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatie)