June 22

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June 22 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining.

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Events

100-1899

• 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.
• 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, en route from Birka to Rotterdam, foundered at Helgoland during a NATO aerial bombing exercise. 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.
• 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

Births

• 1887 - Julian Huxley
• 1910 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)

Deaths

2000-2099

• 2002 - Esther Pauline Friedman, author of the Ann Landers column
• 2002 - Darryl Kile, Major League baseball player
• 2004 - Mattie Stepanek, poet and advocate

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