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June 22
June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining.
Events
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217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom
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168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
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1593 - Battle of Sisak: Slovene - Croat troops defeat the Turks
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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.
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1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
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1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidently 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.
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1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
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1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France
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1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
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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.
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1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre
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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.
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1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
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1963 - Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
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1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
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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.
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1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored the Hand of God goal against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
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1989 - Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
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1993 - Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, USA is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
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1996 - The Quake computer game is released.
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2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people
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2003 - The largest hailstone ever recorded falls from a thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, USA.
Births
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1684 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
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1757 - George Vancouver, navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
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1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
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1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
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1856 - H. Rider Haggard, author (d. 1925)
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1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
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1887 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
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1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, writer (d. 1970)
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1903 - Carl Hubbell, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
- 1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
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1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (d. 2001)
- 1906 - Billy Wilder, director (d. 2002)
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1910 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
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1920 - Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
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1921 - Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
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1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- 1930 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime (d. 1932)
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1936 - Kris Kristofferson, country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar
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1941 - Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent
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1943 - Brit Hume, FOX News anchor and commentator
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1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor
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1947 - David Lander, actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
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1948 - Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, recording producer
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1949 - Meryl Streep, actress
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1952 - Graham Greene, actor
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1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer
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1954 - Freddie Prinze, Actor/comedian (d. 1977)
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1958 - Bruce Campbell, actor
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1970 - Steven Page , singer for Barenaked Ladies
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1971 - Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP
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1973 - Carson Daly, talk show host, MTV VJ
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1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player
- 1978 - Dan Wheldon, IRL race car driver
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1990 - Michael Hayball, person extraordinaire
Deaths
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431 - Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
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1276 - Pope Innocent V
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1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill
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1868 - Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
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1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
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1959 - Hermann Brill, politician
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1965 - David O. Selznick, movie producer
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1969 - Judy Garland, singer, actress
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1974 - Darius Milhaud, composer
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1987 - Fred Astaire, dancer, actor
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1988 - Dennis Day , singer, actor
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1993 - Pat Nixon, wife of president Richard M. Nixon
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1995 - Al Hansen, artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck
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1997 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
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2002 - Darryl Kile, Major League baseball player
- 2002 - Ann Landers, columnist
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2003 - Daniel M. Jares , Medical Doctor
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2004 - Mattie J.T. Stepanek , poet
External links
June 21 - June 23 - May 22 - July 22 -- listing of all days
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