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22nd of June 1593 EVENT Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
22nd of June 1633 EVENT The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
22nd of June 1783 EVENT A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
22nd of June 1807 EVENT In the Chesapeake : Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
22nd of June 1825 EVENT The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
22nd of June 1844 EVENT North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
22nd of June 1848 EVENT Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
22nd of June 1893 EVENT 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.
22nd of June 1897 EVENT British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
22nd of June 1898 EVENT Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
22nd of June 1906 EVENT The flag of Sweden is adopted.
22nd of June 1907 EVENT The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
22nd of June 1911 EVENT George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
22nd of June 1918 EVENT The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
22nd of June 1922 EVENT Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
22nd of June 1940 EVENT France is forced to sign the Second Compiegne armistice with Germany.
22nd of June 1941 EVENT The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
22nd of June 1941 EVENT Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. The Soviet 22 June Song is dedicated to this day.
22nd of June 1941 EVENT Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
22nd of June 1941 EVENT Germany invaded Russia in the start of World War II
22nd of June 1942 EVENT Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
22nd of June 1944 EVENT Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
22nd of June 1944 EVENT U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
22nd of June 1945 EVENT 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.
22nd of June 1957 EVENT The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
22nd of June 1962 EVENT An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
22nd of June 1969 EVENT The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river.
22nd of June 1976 EVENT The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
22nd of June 1978 EVENT Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James Christy.
22nd of June 1984 EVENT Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
22nd of June 1990 EVENT Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
22nd of June 2002 EVENT An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw 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.
22nd of June 2003 EVENT The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska
22nd of June 2009 EVENT Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.
22nd of June 2009 EVENT Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
22nd of June 1680 BIRTHDAY Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
22nd of June 1684 BIRTHDAY Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
22nd of June 1704 BIRTHDAY John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
22nd of June 1713 BIRTHDAY Lord John Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
22nd of June 1738 BIRTHDAY Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
22nd of June 1757 BIRTHDAY George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
22nd of June 1763 BIRTHDAY Etienne Mehul, French composer (d. 1817)
22nd of June 1767 BIRTHDAY Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
22nd of June 1805 BIRTHDAY Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (d. 1872)
22nd of June 1837 BIRTHDAY Paul Morphy, American chess master (d. 1884)
22nd of June 1845 BIRTHDAY Tom Dula, American folk character (d. 1868)
22nd of June 1856 BIRTHDAY H. Rider Haggard, English writer (d. 1925)
22nd of June 1861 BIRTHDAY Maximilian von Spee, Denmark-born German admiral (d. 1914)
22nd of June 1864 BIRTHDAY Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
22nd of June 1871 BIRTHDAY William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
22nd of June 1879 BIRTHDAY Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist (d. 1962)
22nd of June 1884 BIRTHDAY James Rector, American sprinter (d. 1949)
22nd of June 1885 BIRTHDAY Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
22nd of June 1887 BIRTHDAY Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
22nd of June 1888 BIRTHDAY Harold Burton, American jurist (d. 1964)
22nd of June 1892 BIRTHDAY Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
22nd of June 1897 BIRTHDAY Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
22nd of June 1897 BIRTHDAY Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
22nd of June 1898 BIRTHDAY Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
22nd of June 1899 BIRTHDAY Micha? Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
22nd of June 1902 BIRTHDAY Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
22nd of June 1903 BIRTHDAY John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
22nd of June 1903 BIRTHDAY Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
22nd of June 1906 BIRTHDAY Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer, wife of Charles Lindbergh (d. 2001)
22nd of June 1906 BIRTHDAY Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American film director (d. 2002)
22nd of June 1907 BIRTHDAY Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
22nd of June 1909 BIRTHDAY Maurice Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
22nd of June 1910 BIRTHDAY John Hunt, Indian-born British mountaineer (d. 1998)
22nd of June 1910 BIRTHDAY Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
22nd of June 1910 BIRTHDAY Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
22nd of June 1912 BIRTHDAY Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
22nd of June 1913 BIRTHDAY Sandor Weores, Hungarian poet (d. 1989)
22nd of June 1916 BIRTHDAY Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
22nd of June 1919 BIRTHDAY Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
22nd of June 1920 BIRTHDAY Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986)
22nd of June 1920 BIRTHDAY Jovito Salonga, Filipino politician
22nd of June 1921 BIRTHDAY Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
22nd of June 1922 BIRTHDAY Bill Blass, American fashion designer (d. 2002)
22nd of June 1922 BIRTHDAY Geza Vermes, Hungarian author and religious scholar
22nd of June 1922 BIRTHDAY Mona Lisa, Filipino actress
22nd of June 1927 BIRTHDAY Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)
22nd of June 1930 BIRTHDAY Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer
22nd of June 1930 BIRTHDAY Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
22nd of June 1932 BIRTHDAY Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
22nd of June 1932 BIRTHDAY Prunella Scales, English actress
22nd of June 1933 BIRTHDAY Dianne Feinstein, American politician
22nd of June 1933 BIRTHDAY Jacques Martin, French TV host (d. 2007)
22nd of June 1933 BIRTHDAY Libor Pesek, Czech conductor
22nd of June 1936 BIRTHDAY Kris Kristofferson, American singer and actor
22nd of June 1936 BIRTHDAY Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician
22nd of June 1939 BIRTHDAY Don Matthews, American football coach
22nd of June 1940 BIRTHDAY Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker and poet
22nd of June 1940 BIRTHDAY Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
22nd of June 1941 BIRTHDAY Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
22nd of June 1941 BIRTHDAY Terttu Savola, Finnish politician
22nd of June 1941 BIRTHDAY Michael Lerner, American actor
22nd of June 1943 BIRTHDAY Judith Barker, English actress
22nd of June 1943 BIRTHDAY Brit Hume, American news anchor
22nd of June 1943 BIRTHDAY Eumir Deodato, Brazilian jazz musician and record producer
22nd of June 1943 BIRTHDAY Bobby Sherman, Actor, singer, musician
22nd of June 1944 BIRTHDAY Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
22nd of June 1944 BIRTHDAY Peter Asher, British singer, guitarist and producer (Peter & Gordon)
22nd of June 1945 BIRTHDAY Rainer Bruderle, German politician
22nd of June 1946 BIRTHDAY Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
22nd of June 1947 BIRTHDAY Octavia Butler, American author (d. 2006)
22nd of June 1947 BIRTHDAY Howard Kaylan, American singer (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie)
22nd of June 1947 BIRTHDAY Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
22nd of June 1947 BIRTHDAY Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian politician
22nd of June 1947 BIRTHDAY David Lander, American actor and baseball scout
22nd of June 1948 BIRTHDAY Todd Rundgren, American songwriter and record producer
22nd of June 1949 BIRTHDAY Meryl Streep, American actress
22nd of June 1949 BIRTHDAY Alan Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
22nd of June 1949 BIRTHDAY Lindsay Wagner, American actress
22nd of June 1949 BIRTHDAY Elizabeth Warren, American attorney and law professor
22nd of June 1950 BIRTHDAY Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
22nd of June 1952 BIRTHDAY Graham Greene, Canadian actor
22nd of June 1953 BIRTHDAY Wim Eijk, Dutch Roman Catholic Archbishop
22nd of June 1953 BIRTHDAY Bruce McAvaney, Australian sports broadcaster
22nd of June 1953 BIRTHDAY Cyndi Lauper, American singer
22nd of June 1954 BIRTHDAY Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
22nd of June 1955 BIRTHDAY Green Gartside, Welsh singer and songwriter (Scritti Politti)
22nd of June 1956 BIRTHDAY Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist
22nd of June 1956 BIRTHDAY Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani statesman
22nd of June 1956 BIRTHDAY Tim Russ, American actor
22nd of June 1956 BIRTHDAY Manuel Saval, Mexican actor (d. 2009)
22nd of June 1956 BIRTHDAY Markus Schatte, German football coach
22nd of June 1957 BIRTHDAY Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist (INXS)
22nd of June 1957 BIRTHDAY Danny Baker, English comedian and radio presenter
22nd of June 1958 BIRTHDAY Bruce Campbell, American actor
22nd of June 1959 BIRTHDAY Wayne Federman, American comedian
22nd of June 1959 BIRTHDAY Nicola Sirkis, French singer and lyricist (Indochine)
22nd of June 1959 BIRTHDAY Mike O'Meara, American radio personality
22nd of June 1959 BIRTHDAY Ed Viesturs, American mountaineer
22nd of June 1960 BIRTHDAY Erin Brockovich, American environmentalist
22nd of June 1960 BIRTHDAY Tracy Pollan, American actress
22nd of June 1961 BIRTHDAY Stephen Batchelor, British field-hockey player
22nd of June 1961 BIRTHDAY Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards)
22nd of June 1962 BIRTHDAY Clyde Drexler, American basketball player
22nd of June 1962 BIRTHDAY Bobby Gillespie, Scottish vocalist and drummer (Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain)
22nd of June 1962 BIRTHDAY Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director
22nd of June 1962 BIRTHDAY Gerald Hillringhaus, German footballer
22nd of June 1963 BIRTHDAY Randy Couture, American mixed martial artist
22nd of June 1963 BIRTHDAY John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
22nd of June 1963 BIRTHDAY Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna
22nd of June 1964 BIRTHDAY Dan Brown, American writer
22nd of June 1964 BIRTHDAY Amy Brenneman, American actress
22nd of June 1965 BIRTHDAY Lubomir Moravcik, Slovak footballer
22nd of June 1965 BIRTHDAY Uwe Boll, German film director
22nd of June 1966 BIRTHDAY Schooly D, American rapper
22nd of June 1966 BIRTHDAY Michael Park, English rally driver (d. 2005)
22nd of June 1966 BIRTHDAY Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
22nd of June 1968 BIRTHDAY Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
22nd of June 1970 BIRTHDAY Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
22nd of June 1970 BIRTHDAY Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician and businessman
22nd of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Kambri Crews, American writer
22nd of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Kurt Warner, American football player
22nd of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress
22nd of June 1972 BIRTHDAY David Rees, American cartoonist
22nd of June 1973 BIRTHDAY Carson Daly, American television personality
22nd of June 1974 BIRTHDAY Donald Faison, American actor
22nd of June 1974 BIRTHDAY Vijay, Indian actor
22nd of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Muslum Can, Turkish footballer
22nd of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Kenshin Kawakami, Japanese baseball player
22nd of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress
22nd of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Andreas Kloden, German cyclist
22nd of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Gordon Moakes, English musician (Bloc Party)
22nd of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Champ Bailey, American football player
22nd of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality
22nd of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Tim Driesen, Belgian actor, singer and songwriter
22nd of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Dan Wheldon, British race car driver
22nd of June 1979 BIRTHDAY Joey Cheek, American speed skater
22nd of June 1979 BIRTHDAY Leire Martinez, Basque singer and songwriter (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
22nd of June 1979 BIRTHDAY Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist
22nd of June 1979 BIRTHDAY Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
22nd of June 1979 BIRTHDAY Xenofon Gittas, Greek footballer
22nd of June 1981 BIRTHDAY Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors)
22nd of June 1981 BIRTHDAY Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player
22nd of June 1982 BIRTHDAY Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
22nd of June 1982 BIRTHDAY Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
22nd of June 1984 BIRTHDAY Dustin Johnson, American golfer
22nd of June 1984 BIRTHDAY Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer
22nd of June 1984 BIRTHDAY Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player
22nd of June 1984 BIRTHDAY Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
22nd of June 1985 BIRTHDAY Scott MacIntyre, American singer
22nd of June 1985 BIRTHDAY Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
22nd of June 1985 BIRTHDAY Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Cameroonian-Greek basketball player
22nd of June 1986 BIRTHDAY Ramin Ott, American Samoan footballer
22nd of June 1987 BIRTHDAY Joe Dempsie, English actor
22nd of June 1987 BIRTHDAY Danny Green, American basketball player
22nd of June 1987 BIRTHDAY Cory Gunz, American rapper
22nd of June 1987 BIRTHDAY Lee Min Ho, Korean actor
22nd of June 1987 BIRTHDAY Nikita Rukavytsya, Australian footballer
22nd of June 1988 BIRTHDAY Omri Casspi, Israeli pro basketball player
22nd of June 1989 BIRTHDAY Jung Yong Hwa, Korean actor and singer
22nd of June 1990 BIRTHDAY Kei Inoo, Japanese actor and singer
22nd of June 1992 BIRTHDAY Selena Gomez, Pop Star
22nd of June 1993 BIRTHDAY Caydee Denney, American figure skater
22nd of June 1993 BIRTHDAY Ingmar Lazar, French classical pianist
22nd of June 1276 DEATH Pope Innocent V (Born c. 1225)
22nd of June 1429 DEATH Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (Born 1380)
22nd of June 1535 DEATH John Fisher, English Bishop of Rochester (executed) (Born 1469)
22nd of June 1632 DEATH James Whitelocke, English judge (Born 1570)
22nd of June 1634 DEATH Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (Born 1588)
22nd of June 1699 DEATH Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (Born 1630)
22nd of June 1714 DEATH Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (Born 1662)
22nd of June 1868 DEATH Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (Born 1801)
22nd of June 1874 DEATH Howard Staunton, English chess master (Born 1810)
22nd of June 1892 DEATH Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (Born 1819)
22nd of June 1894 DEATH Alexandre-Antonin Tache, Canadian archbishop (Born 1823)
22nd of June 1905 DEATH Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (Born 1815)
22nd of June 1913 DEATH Stefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (Born 1875)
22nd of June 1925 DEATH Felix Klein, German mathematician (Born 1849)
22nd of June 1928 DEATH A. B. Frost, American illustrator (Born 1851)
22nd of June 1931 DEATH Armand Fallieres, French politician, President of France (Born 1841)
22nd of June 1933 DEATH Henry Birkin, British racing driver (Born 1896)
22nd of June 1935 DEATH Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (Born 1866)
22nd of June 1936 DEATH Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (Born 1882)
22nd of June 1938 DEATH C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (Born 1876)
22nd of June 1945 DEATH Isamu Cho, Japanese general at Okinawa, by seppuku (Born 1895)
22nd of June 1945 DEATH Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (died at Okinawa by seppuku) (Born 1887)
22nd of June 1959 DEATH Hermann Brill, German politician (Born 1895)
22nd of June 1961 DEATH Maria of Yugoslavia, Romanian-born Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (Born 1900)
22nd of June 1963 DEATH Maria Tanase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (Born 1913)
22nd of June 1964 DEATH Havank, Dutch writer (Born 1904)
22nd of June 1965 DEATH David O. Selznick, American film producer (Born 1902)
22nd of June 1969 DEATH Judy Garland, American singer and actress (Born 1922)
22nd of June 1974 DEATH Darius Milhaud, French composer (Born 1892)
22nd of June 1977 DEATH Jacqueline Audry, French film director (Born 1908)
22nd of June 1977 DEATH Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (Born 1952)
22nd of June 1979 DEATH Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (Born 1899)
22nd of June 1980 DEATH Dimitrios Partsalidis, Greek politician (Born 1905)
22nd of June 1984 DEATH Joseph Losey, American theater and film director (Born 1909)
22nd of June 1987 DEATH Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (Born 1899)
22nd of June 1988 DEATH Dennis Day, American singer and actor (Born 1916)
22nd of June 1989 DEATH Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (Born 1916)
22nd of June 1990 DEATH Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1908)
22nd of June 1992 DEATH Chuck Mitchell, American actor (Born 1927)
22nd of June 1993 DEATH Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (Born 1912)
22nd of June 1995 DEATH Al Hansen, American artist (Born 1927)
22nd of June 1995 DEATH Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (Born 1931)
22nd of June 1997 DEATH Ted Gardestad, Swedish singer (Born 1956)
22nd of June 1997 DEATH Don Henderson, English actor (Born 1932)
22nd of June 1997 DEATH Gerard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (Born 1919)
22nd of June 2002 DEATH Ann Landers, American columnist (Born 1918)
22nd of June 2002 DEATH Darryl Kile, American baseball player (Born 1968)
22nd of June 2004 DEATH Mattie Stepanek, American poet (Born 1990)
22nd of June 2004 DEATH Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (Born 1920)
22nd of June 2004 DEATH Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (Born 1970)
22nd of June 2006 DEATH Moose (dog actor), dog actor popular for role on Frasier (Born 1990)
22nd of June 2007 DEATH Nancy Benoit ("Woman", "Fallen Angel"), American professional wrestling valet (Born 1964)
22nd of June 2007 DEATH Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (Born 1964)
22nd of June 2008 DEATH George Carlin, American author, comedian (Born 1937)
22nd of June 2008 DEATH Dody Goodman, American comedienne (Born 1914)
22nd of June 2008 DEATH Jane McGrath, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner (Born 1966)