June 22 - Definition

June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining.

Events

Up to 1 BC

• 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

1 AD-1899

• 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.
• 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
• 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
• 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.
• 1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.

1900-1949

• 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.
• 1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre

1950-1999

• 1950 - The longship replica Ormen Friske (http://web.telia.com/~u57013916/index.htm), en route from Birka to Rotterdam, broke apart in the North Sea because of improper construction. All 15 crew members drowned.
• 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.
• 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
• 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.
• 1989 - Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
• 1993 - Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, USA is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
• 1996 - The Quake computer game is released.

2000-2099

• 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, USA.

Births

• 1757 - George Vancouver, navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
• 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
• 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
• 1856 - H. Rider Haggard, author (d. 1925)
• 1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
• 1887 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
• 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, writer (d. 1970)
• 1903 - Carl Hubbell, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
• 1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
• 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (d. 2001)
• 1906 - Billy Wilder, director (d. 2002)
• 1910 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
• 1920 - Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
• 1921 - Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
• 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)
• 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar
• 1941 - Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent
• 1943 - Brit Hume, FOX News anchor and commentator
• 1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor
• 1947 - David Lander, actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
• 1948 - Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, recording producer
• 1949 - Meryl Streep, actress
• 1952 - Graham Greene, actor
• 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer
• 1954 - Freddie Prinze, Actor/comedian (d. 1977)
• 1958 - Bruce Campbell, actor
• 1970 - Steven Page, singer for Barenaked Ladies
• 1971 - Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP
• 1973 - Carson Daly, talk show host, MTV VJ
• 1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player
• 1978 - Dan Wheldon, IRL race car driver

Deaths

• 431 - Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
• 1276 - Pope Innocent V
• 1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill
• 1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
• 1959 - Hermann Brill, politician
• 1965 - David O. Selznick, movie producer
• 1969 - Judy Garland, singer, actress
• 1974 - Darius Milhaud, composer
• 1987 - Fred Astaire, dancer, actor
• 1988 - Dennis Day, singer, actor
• 1993 - Pat Nixon, wife of president Richard M. Nixon
• 1995 - Al Hansen, artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck
• 1997 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
• 2002 - Darryl Kile, Major League baseball player
• 2002 - Ann Landers, columnist
• 2003 - Daniel M. Jares, Medical Doctor
• 2004 - Mattie J.T. Stepanek, poet