Title: June 22 Content: == Events == === Up to 1950 === * 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. * 816 Pope Stephen IV is elected. * 1593 Battle of Sisak: Slovene – Croat troops defeat the Turks. * 1622 Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch-Portuguese War. * 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. * 1634 Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn marries Saskia van Uylenburgh. * 1675 The Greenwich Royal Observatory is founded. * 1774 The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules for governance of the colony of Quebec in what was then British North America. * 1783 The poisonous cloud from the erupting Laki volcanic crater in Iceland reaches Le Havre, on France's English Channel coast. * 1813 War of 1812: After learning of American plans to carry out a surprise attack on the Beavers Dams, Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn James FitzGibbon. * 1825 British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. * 1866 Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War. * 1870 The United States Congress creates the United States Department of Justice. * 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. * 1906 The Flag of Sweden is adopted as the country's official national flag. * 1907 The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. * 1911 George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII, who had died in 1910. * 1918 The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 people and injures 127 in Hammond, Indiana. * 1919 Law student Jens Oliver Lisberg first raises the current Flag of the Faroe Islands in the village of Famjin. * 1922 Herrin massacre: 19 strikeboarders and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois. * 1936 Austrian philosopher Moritz Schlick is murdered by a former student at the University of Vienna. * 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 June coup in Lithuania against the Soviets starts. * 1942 Erwin Rommel is promoted to the rank of Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk, in Libya. * 1944 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre. * 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end. * 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. === 1951 2000 === * 1955 The Disney film Lady and the Tramp has its premiere. * 1957 The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time. * 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. * 1964 François Duvalier (Papa Doc) is officially declared "President for Life" in Haiti. * 1974 In Hamburg, during the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the East Germany national football team defeats the West Germany national football team 1-0 in a Group Stage match, with the goal scored by Jürgen Sparwasser. * 1976 Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment. * 1978 Pluto's moon Charon 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 scores the Hand of God goal and the "Goal of the Century" against England during the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City. * 1989 Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland. * 1990 Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is removed. * 1993 Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, United States is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber. * 1996 The Quake computer game is released. * 2000 A ferry sinking on the Yangtze River in Sichuan province, China, kills 131 people. === From 2001 === * 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, United States. * 2004 In Belgium, Marc Dutroux is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and murdering young girls. * 2006 At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo of Brazil equals Gerd Müller's overall World Cup goal-scoring record of 14. He beats the record five days later. * 2008 Filipino ferry Princess of the Stars runs aground in a typhoon, killing around 800 people. * 2009 Two Washington, DC metro trains collide, killing 9 people. * 2010 The longest match in professional tennis history begins at Wimbledon, in which John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the fifth, and deciding, set two days later. * 2012 President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and is succeeded by Federico Franco. * 2012 A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter airplane is shot down by Syrian Armed Forces, killing both pilots on board. This worsens the already strained relations between Turkey and Syria. * 2019 Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is elected President of Mauritania, in what would be the country's first peaceful transfer of power since gaining independence from France in 1960. * 2022 June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake occurs, killing at least 1000 people. == Births == === Up to 1900 === *662 Emperor Ruizong of Tang of China (d. 716) *1000 Robert I, Duke of Normandy (d. 1035) *1680 Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754) *1684 Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762) *1738 Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813) *1757 George Vancouver, English navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798) *1767 Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835) *1792 James Baeumont Neilson, Scottish inventor (d. 1865) *1805 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian jurist and activist (d. 1872) *1820 James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909) *1821 Theodor Möbius, German philologist (d. 1890) *1830 Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, professor and composer (d. 1915) *1837 Ernst Ziller, German architect (d. 1923) *1837 Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884) *1845 Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906) *1856 H. Rider Haggard, writer (d. 1925) *1861 Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914) *1864 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909) *1871 Arthur Wynne, English-American inventor of the Crossword (d. 1945) *1871 William MacDougall, English psychologist and polymath (d. 1938) *1874 Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete (d. 1930) *1874 Walter F. Otto, German scholar (d. 1958) *1876 Gwen John, Welsh painter (d. 1939) *1879 John J. Dempsey, American politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico (d. 1958) *1880 Johannes Drost, Dutch backstroke swimmer (d. 1954) *1884 James Rector, American sprinter (d. 1949) *1885 Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962) *1887 Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975) *1888 Harold Ritz Burton, 45th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1964) *1890 Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician (d. 1970) *1892 Emil Telmanyi, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 1988) *1896 Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (d. 1971) *1897 Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990) *1898 Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970) *1899 Michal Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970) *1899 Artur Kukk, Estonian wrestler (d. 1958) *1899 Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer (d. 1980) *1900 Oskar Fischinger, German animator, filmmaker and painter (d. 1967) === 1901 1930 === *1902 Marguerite De La Motte, American movie actress (d. 1950) *1903 Carl Hubbell, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988) *1903 John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934) *1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and aviator (d. 2001) *1906 Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002) *1907 Marta Colvin, Chilean sculptor (d. 1995) *1909 Buddy Adler, American film producer (d. 1960) *1909 Katherine Dunham, American dancer (d. 2006) *1909 Mike Todd, American movie and theatre producer (d. 1958) *1910 John Hunt, Indian-British mountaineer (d. 1998) *1910 Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986) *1910 Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995) *1912 Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983) *1919 Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980) *1920 Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986) *1920 Jovito Salonga, Filipino politician (d. 2016) *1921 Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991) *1922 Osvaldo Fattori, Italian footballer (d. 2017) *1924 Géza Vermes, Hungarian- British scholar (d. 2013) *1926 Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer and filmmaker (d. 2015) *1926 Rachid Solh, Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014) *1928 Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2010) *1928 Ralph Waite, American actor (d. 2014) *1929 Bruce Kent, British social activist *1930 Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998) *1930 Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime (d. 1932) *1930 John Joseph Scanlan, Roman Catholic prelate *1930 Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer (d. 2011) === 1931 1950 === *1932 Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005) *1932 Prunella Scales, British actress *1932 Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Queen Consort of Iran (d. 2001) *1933 Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator and former Mayor of San Francisco *1933 Libor Pesek, Czech conductor *1936 Kris Kristofferson, American country music singer, songwriter and actor *1936 Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian composer and musician *1936 Izatullo Khayoyev, Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015) *1937 Bernie McGann, American musician (d. 2013) *1938 Virginio De Paoli, Italian footballer (d. 2009) *1939 Robert Kramer, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1999) *1939 Ada Yonath, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize winner *1940 Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2016) *1940 Esther Rantzen, British television presenter *1941 Marco Aurélio Garcia, Brazilian politician (d. 2017) *1941 Ed Bradley, American journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent (d. 2006) *1943 Brit Hume, American FOX News anchor and commentator *1943 Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer and producer *1943 Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor *1944 Helmut Dietl, German movie director (d. 2015) *1944 Gérard Mourou, French physicist *1945 Rainer Brüderle, German politician *1946 Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club) *1946 Józef Oleksy, Polish politician (d. 2015) *1947 Octavia E. Butler, American science fiction author (d. 2006) *1947 David Lander, American actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley) *1947 David Landau, British- Israeli journalist (d. 2015) *1947 Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist *1947 Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana (d. 2020) *1948 Todd Rundgren, American singer, songwriter and recording producer *1949 Meryl Streep, American actress *1949 Lindsay Wagner, American actress *1949 Alan Osmond, American singer *1949 Larry Gunstrom, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) *1949 Elizabeth Warren, American politician *1949 Carlo Petrini, Italian journalist, activist and writer *1950 Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009) *1950 Adrian Nastase, Romanian politician === 1951 1970 === *1951 Craig Gruber, American musician (d. 2015) *1952 Graham Greene, Canadian actor *1952 Alastair Stewart, English journalist and newsreader *1953 Cyndi Lauper, American singer *1953 Wim Eijk, Dutch archbishop *1954 Wolfgang Becker, German film director and writer *1954 Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977) *1956 Wang Guozhen, Chinese poet (d. 2015) *1956 Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani politician *1956 Derek Forbes, Scottish musician (Simple Minds) *1957 Danny Baker, English comedy writer, journalist, DJ and screenwriter *1957 Arkadi Ghukasyan, former President of Nagorno-Karabakh *1958 Bruce Campbell, American actor *1960 Erin Brockovich, American activist *1960 Tracy Pollan, American actress *1961 Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician *1962 Bobby Gillespie, Scottish singer and musician *1962 Clyde Drexler, former NBA player *1962 Campino, German singer *1962 Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress and musician *1963 Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler *1964 Amy Brenneman, American actress *1964 Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer *1964 Dan Brown, American writer (The Da Vinci Code) *1964 John Penrose, English politician *1965 Uwe Boll, German director *1965 L'ubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer *1968 Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player *1968 Melinda Nadj Abonji, Hungarian-Swiss writer and musician *1970 Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician and businessman *1970 Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies) === 1971 1985 === *1973 Carson Daly, American talk show host, MTV VJ *1974 Jo Cox, British politician (d. 2016) *1974 Joseph Vijay, Indian actor *1974 Sabina Nore, Austrian artist *1974 Donald Faison, American actor *1976 Gordon Moakes, English singer and musician *1978 Champ Bailey, American football player *1978 Dan Wheldon, British IRL race car driver (d. 2011) *1979 Jai Rodriguez, American television personality *1979 Leire Martinez, Basque singer and songwriter *1980 Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player *1981 Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017) *1981 Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors) *1981 Monty Oum, American animator (d. 2015) *1982 Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model *1984 Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player *1984 Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player *1984 Dustin Johnson, American golfer *1984 Ruben Ivan Martinez, Spanish footballer *1985 Sofaklis Schortsanitis, Greek basketball player *1985 Rosa Kato, Italian- Japanese model and actress *1985 Scott MacIntyre, American singer-songwriter and pianist === From 1986 === *1986 Dwayne Anderson, American basketball player *1986 Ramin Ott, American Samoan footballer *1987 Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer *1987 Danny Green, American basketball player *1987 Cory Gunz, American rapper and songwriter *1987 Lee Min Ho, South Korean actor, model and singer *1988 Portia Doubleday, American actress *1989 Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean musician, singer and songwriter *1989 Andreas Mikkelsen, Norwegian rally driver *1989 Karla Crome, British actress *1989 Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer *1990 Sebastian Jung, German footballer *1991 Giuseppe De Luca, Italian footballer *1991 Katie Jarvis, English actress *1991 Emil Larsen, Danish footballer *1993 Caydee Denney, American figure skater *1993 Loris Karius, German footballer *2006 Anna Hursey, Welsh table tennis player == Deaths == === Up to 1950 === *431 Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet *1276 Pope Innocent V (b. 1225) *1429 Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380) *1535 John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill (b. 1469) *1691 Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642) *1699 Josiah Child, English merchant, economist and politician (b. 1630) *1727 King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660) *1813 Anton Graff, Swiss painter (b. 1736) *1868 Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801) *1872 Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentine general (b. 1795) *1874 Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810) *1892 Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819) *1896 Benjamin Bristow, American politician (b. 1832) *1905 Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815) *1913 Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875) *1925 Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849) *1931 Armand Fallières, President of France (b. 1841) *1933 Henry Birkin, English racing driver (b. 1896) *1935 Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866) *1936 Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (b. 1882) *1942 August Froehlich, German priest and Resistance activist (b. 1891) *1945 Isamu Cho, Japanese general (b. 1895) *1945 Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887) *1945 Jambyl, KazakhstanI folk singer (b. 1846) === 1951 2000 === *1956 Walter de la Mare, English author and poet (b. 1873) *1959 Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895) *1961 Maria of Yugoslavia, Romanian-born Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900) *1965 David O. Selznick, American movie producer (b. 1902) *1969 Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922) *1974 Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892) *1977 Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (b. 1908) *1978 Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914) *1979 Louis Chiron, Monegasque racing driver (b. 1899) *1987 Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899) *1988 Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916) *1990 Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (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, grandfather of rock musician Beck (b. 1927) *1995 Yves Congar, French theologian and cardinal (b. 1904) *1997 Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919) === From 2001 === *2001 Luis Carniglia, Argentine footballer and coach (b. 1917) *2002 Darryl Kile, American Major League baseball player (b. 1968) *2002 Ann Landers, American writer (b. 1918) *2004 Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990) *2004 Bob Bemer, American computer pioneer (b. 1920) *2008 George Carlin, American comedian and actor (b. 1937) *2013 Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (b. 1978) *2013 Henning Larsen, Danish architect (b. 1925) *2013 Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician (b. 1945) *2014 Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American university professor and writer (b. 1945) *2015 Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941) *2015 James Horner, American film score composer (b. 1953) *2015 James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, Scottish nobleman (b. 1929) *2016 Amjad Sabri, Pakistani singer (b. 1970) *2016 Joan Acker, American sociologist (b. 1924) *2016 John William Ashe, Antiguan diplomat (b. 1954) *2016 Vasily Bochkaryov, Russian politician (b. 1949) *2016 Jim Boyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956) *2016 Marc Allan Feldman, American physician and politician (b. 1960) *2016 David J. Hickson, British theorist (b. 1931) *2016 Harry Rabinowitz, British composer and conductor (b. 1916) *2017 Gunter Gabriel, German singer, musician and composer (b. 1942) *2017 Frank Kush, American football player (b. 1929) *2017 Keith Loneker, American football player and actor (b. 1971) *2017 Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (b. 1925) *2017 Nikolai Zhugan, Soviet-Russian pilot (b. 1917) *2018 Geoff Case, Australian rules football player (b. 1935) *2018 Nahum Korzhavin, Russian-American poet (b. 1925) *2018 Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1935) *2018 Deanna Lund, American actress (b. 1937) *2018 Geoffrey Oryema, Ugandan-born French guitarist (b. 1953) *2018 Vinnie Paul, American rock music drummer (b. 1964) *2018 Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (b. 1926) *2018 Sally Pierone, American art director and psychiatrist (b. 1921) *2019 Judith Krantz, American author (b. 1928) *2019 Leevi Lehto, Finnish poet, translator and programmer (b. 1951) *2019 Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian army officer *2019 Stepan Shakaryan, Azerbaijani-Armenian composer (b. 1935) == Holidays == *Roman Catholic Church: Feast day of Thomas More *Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia) *Teachers' Day (El Salvador) Category:Days of the year