June 22
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June 22 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining after June 22 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1680 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
- 1684 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
- 1757 – George Vancouver, English navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
- 1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
- 1805 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian jurist and activist (d. 1872)
- 1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
- 1845 – Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
- 1856 – H. Rider Haggard, author (d. 1925)
- 1861 – Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
- 1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
- 1887 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
- 1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
- 1903 – Carl Hubbell, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
- 1903 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
- 1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d. 2001)
- 1906 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002)
- 1910 – John Hunt, Indian-British mountaineer (d. 1998)
- 1910 – Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
- 1910 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
- 1921 – Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
- 1928 – Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2010)
- 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)
- 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
- 1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American country music singer, songwriter and actor
- 1940 – Esther Rantzen, British television presenter
- 1941 – Ed Bradley, American journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent
- 1943 – Brit Hume, American FOX News anchor and commentator
- 1944 – Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
- 1945 – Rainer Bruederle, German politician
- 1946 – Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
- 1947 – David Lander, American actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
- 1947 – Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana
- 1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer, songwriter, recording producer
- 1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress
- 1949 – Lindsay Wagner, American actress
- 1949 – Alan Osmond, American singer
- 1950 – Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
- 1952 – Graham Greene, American actor
- 1953 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer
- 1954 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
- 1958 – Bruce Campbell, American actor
- 1960 – Erin Brockovich, American activist
- 1962 – Bobby Gillespie, Scottish singer and musician
- 1962 – Clyde Drexler, former NBA player
- 1964 – Dan Brown, American author (The Da Vinci Code)
- 1965 – L'ubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer
- 1970 – Steven Page, singer for Barenaked Ladies
- 1973 – Carson Daly, American talk show host, MTV VJ
- 1974 – Sabina Nore, Austrian artist
- 1974 – Donald Faison, American actor
- 1978 – Champ Bailey, American football player
- 1978 – Dan Wheldon, British IRL race car driver (d. 2011)
- 1978 – Jai Rodriguez, American television personality
- 1984 – Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
- 1987 – Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer
- 1993 – Caydee Denney, American figure skater
[change] Deaths
- 431 – Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
- 1276 – Pope Innocent V (b. 1225)
- 1535 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill (b. 1469)
- 1868 – Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
- 1905 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- 1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
- 1931 – Armand Fallieres, President of France (b. 1841)
- 1936 – Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (b. 1882)
- 1959 – Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1993 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- 1995 – Al Hansen, American artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck (b. 1927)
- 1997 – Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Darryl Kile, American Major League baseball player (b. 1968)
- 2002 – Ann Landers, American writer (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
- 2008 – George Carlin, American comedian and actor (b. 1937)
[change] Events
- 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.
- 1675 – The Greenwich Royal Observatory is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1937 – Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1911 – George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.
- 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
- 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 scored the Hand of God goal 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.
- 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.
- 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.
