June 22 - Events

Events

• 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator 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 KingPerseus ending the Third Macedonian War.
• 1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
• 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
• 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• 1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
• 1825 – The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
• 1844 – North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
• 1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
• 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleetflagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral SirGeorge Tryon.
• 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by theChapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
• 1898 – Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
• 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
• 1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
• 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• 1922 – Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
• 1940 – France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
• 1941 – Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. The Soviet 22 June Song is dedicated to this day.
• 1941 – The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
• 1941 – Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
• 1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
• 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
• 1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
• 1957 – The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
• 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
• 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river.
• 1976 – The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
• 1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James Christy.
• 1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
• 1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
• 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 M_w strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slowness of the victims receiving aid and supplies.
• 2003 – The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska
• 2009 – Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.
• 2009 – Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.