Wikipedia: June 22

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

Events

168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
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 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
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.
2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people

Births

1757 - George Vancouver, navigator, naval surveyor ( 1798).
1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, philosopher and statesman ( 1835).
1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player ( 1884).
1856 - H. Rider Haggard, author ( 1925).
1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (+ 1962).
1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, writer ( 1970).
1903 - Carl Hubbell, Baseball Hall of Famer ( 1988).
1906 - Billy Wilder, director ( 2002).
1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator ( 2001).
1920 - Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist ( 1986).
1921 - Joseph Papp, director, producer.
1930 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime ( 1932)
1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut († 1998)
1936 - Kris Kristofferson, country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar.
1941 - Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent.
1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor.
1948 - Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, recording producer.
1949 - Meryl Streep, actress.
1952 - Graham Greene, actor.
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer.
1954 - Freddie Prinze, Actor/comedian ( 1977)
1958 - Bruce Campbell, actor.
1971 - Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP
1973 - Carson Daly, talk show host, VJ.

Deaths

431 - Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet.
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.

Holidays and observances

Feast of St Alban (Anglican).
Anti-fascist struggle day in Croatia

See Also:

June 21 - June 23 - May 22 - July 22 -- listing of all days

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