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What happened in history on this day: June 22?
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- 431 - Council of Ephesus (third ecumenical council) opens.
- 816 - Stephen IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1342 - Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning).
- 1497 - Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath.
- 1611 - Henry Hudson and son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers.
- 1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II.
- 1757 - Birth of George Vancouver surveyed Pacific coast from San Francisco to Vancouver Island.
- 1772 - Slavery outlawed in England.
- 1783 - A poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
- 1807 - British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812.
- 1808 - Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.
- 1815 - Second abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo defeat).
- 1816 - An English statute establishes a single gold standard for money, with silver coins reduced to status of tokens of limited legal tender.
- 1837 - Birth of Paul Morphy in New Orleans, USA; greatest chess player of all time (1857-61).
- 1846 - Adolphe Sax of Belgium patents his invention of the saxophone.
- 1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for President.
- 1848 - The French government dissolves the national workshops in Paris, giving the workers the choice of joining the army or going to workshops in the provinces.
- 1849 - Stephen C Massett opens courthouse, using only piano in California.
- 1851 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco, California.
- 1856 - Birth of H Rider Haggard; author (King Solomon's Mine, She).
- 1858 - Birth of Giacomo Puccini in Italy; operatic composer (Madama Butterfly).
- 1859 - Birth of Frank Heino Damrosch; author/musician/teacher (founder of Institute of Music).
- 1868 - Arkansas re-enters US.
- 1870 - US Congress creates Department of Justice.
- 1874 - Dr Andrew T Sill, of Macon, Missouri, founds science of osteopathy.
- 1874 - Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies.
- 1887 - Birth of Julian Huxley in London, England; biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog.
- 1889 - Louisville Colonels set Major League baseball record with 26th consecutive loss.
- 1893 - A few miles off the Syrian port of Tripoli, English battleships HMS Victoria and Camperdown collide almost head-on. Victoria sinks in 13 minutes, taking 22 officers and 363 men.
- 1894 - A decree of France creates Dahomey in Africa.
- 1896 - Birth of Francis C Denebrink; US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea).
- 1898 - Birth of Erich Maria Remarque; novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front).
- 1901 - Birth of Jack Whiting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor/singer (Marge and Gower Champion Show).
- 1903 - Birth of Carl Hubbell; pitcher (New York Giants)-253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA.
- 1903 - Birth of John Dillinger; one of America's Most Wanted.
- 1906 - Birth of Billy Wilder; movie director (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17).
- 1906 - Birth of Richard Fanshawe in England; equestion three-day event (Olympic-bronze-1936).
- 1907 - Birth of Anne Morrow Lindbergh; aviator/author (Gift from the Sea).
- 1910 - First airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland.
- 1910 - Birth of Jennie Tourel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera 1943-47).
- 1910 - Birth of Peter Pears in Farnham, England; tenor (Death in Venice).
- 1911 - King George V of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- 1918 - Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe, Illinois, USA).
- 1918 - A circus train wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana, USA.
- 1920 - Birth of Paul Frees in Chicago, Illinois, USA; performed voices in thousands of radio, TV, movies, many Disney roles and in Disneyland attractions, named Disney Legend in 2006.
- 1921 - Birth of Gower Champion; choreographer (42nd Street).
- 1921 - Birth of Joseph Papp in Brooklyn, New York, USA; stage producer/director (Pirates of Penzance).
- 1922 - Birth of Bill Blass in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; fashion designer (Nancy Reagan).
- 1922 - Field Marshal Sir Henry H Wilson is murdered in London, England.
- 1925 - G Shajn discovers asteroid #1058 Grubba.
- 1928 - Birth of Ralph Waite; actor (The Waltons, Carnivale).
- 1928 - Birth of Orson Bean in Burlington, Vermont, USA; comedian (I Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth).
- 1929 - Birth of Ralph Waite; actor (Last Summer, Cool Hand Luke, Five Easy Pieces).
- 1930 - Lou Gehrig hits three home runs in a game, Babe Ruth hits three in doubleheader.
- 1933 - Birth of Dianne Feinstein; American politician (Mayor-Democrat-San Francisco).
- 1936 - Birth of Kris Kristofferson, singer/actor (Amerika, Millenium, Dead Man's Gun, Pair of Aces).
- 1936 - Harry Froboess dives 110m from airship into Bodensee and survives.
- 1936 - Virgin Islands receives a constitution from US (Organic Act).
- 1937 - Joe Louis knocks out James Braddock for the heavyweight boxing crown.
- 1938 - Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling at 2:04 of first round at Yankee Stadium in New York to retain heavyweight championship.
- 1938 - The German government initiates civil defense measures.
- 1940 - France formally surrenders to Germany. The signing ceremony is held in the Forest de Compiègne, in the same rail car in which Germany had surrendered to France in 1918. General Charles Huntziger signs for France. Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs for Germany.
- 1941 - Birth of Michael Lerner; actor (Clueless, Kingdom Hospital, Courthouse).
- 1941 - Birth of Ed Bradley in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes TV show, 19 Emmy Awards).
- 1941 - (0316 hours) Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union along an 1100-mile front, with three million soldiers, the largest invasion in history. Army Group Center, commanded by Fedor von Bock, attacks north of the Pripet Marshes from Brest-Litovsk. Army Group North, commanded by Wilhelm von Leeb, attacks through Baltic states heading to Leningrad. Army Group South, commanded by Gerd von Rundstedt, attacks south of Pripet Marshes toward Kiev. In the south, the 11th Army of Romanians and Germans attack across the Pruth River into Bessarabia. German planes begin bombing and strafing Soviet airfields. By the end of the day, 1200 Russian aircraft are destroyed.
- 1941 - Finland invades Karelia.
- 1942 - Death of Carmi A. Thompson, US Treasurer.
- 1943 - Birth of Jimmy Castor in New York City, New York, USA; rocker (Troglodyte).
- 1944 - Birth of Michael Obst; German coxsman (Olympic-gold-1960).
- 1944 - Birth of Peter Asher in London, England; singer (Peter and Gordon - "World Without Love").
- 1944 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act).
- 1944 - Longest shut-out in Philadelphia Phillies history; Philadelphia Phillies beat Boston Braves 1-0 in 15 innings.
- 1944 - Soviet forces launch Operation Bagration, on German Army Group Centre. The Soviet force comprises about 1.2 million men, 166 rifle divisions, 2715 tanks, 24,000 guns, 5327 aircraft, and 700 heavy bombers.
- 1945 - Okinawa, Japan, is declared captured by the Allies.
- 1946 - Birth of Andrew Rubin in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Police Academy, Jessica Novak, Hometown).
- 1947 - Birth of David L Lander in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Squiggy - Laverne and Shirley).
- 1947 - Birth of Howard Kaylan; rocker (The Turtles - "Happy Together", "Eleanor").
- 1948 - Birth of "Pistol" Pete Maravich; NBA star (Atlanta Hawks).
- 1948 - Birth of Todd Rundgren, rock singer ("Hello it's Me", "Bang on the Drum All Day").
- 1949 - Birth of Alan Osmond in Ogden, Utah, USA; singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie and Marie).
- 1949 - Birth of Lindsay Wagner in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (The Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks, Against All Odds).
- 1949 - Birth of Meryl Streep in New Jersey, USA; actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice, Angels in America, Holocaust).
- 1949 - Birth of Gary Moffet; guitarist (April Wine).
- 1949 - Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for the boxing title.
- 1950 - Birth of Murphy Cross in Harve de Grace, Maryland, USA; actress (Phyl and Mikhy, Perfect).
- 1952 - Birth of Graham Greene in Ontario, Canada; actor (Red Green Show, Into the West).
- 1954 - Birth of Chris Lemmon; actor (Brothers and Sisters, Richard - Duet, Thunder in Paradise, Knots Landing, Brothers and Sisters).
- 1954 - Birth of Freddie Prinze in New York City, New York, USA; comedian/actor (Chico and the Man).
- 1954 - US Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands.
- 1954 - Death of Don Hollenbeck at age 49 by suicide; newscaster (NBC, CBS Weekend News, You Are There).
- 1955 - Death of Wyllis Cooper at age 56 after a long illness; writer (Lights Out radio show (1934)), producer (Quiet Please radio show (1944)), TV narrator (Volume One).
- 1955 - Buena Vista generally releases the Disney animated film Lady and the Tramp to theaters in the US.
- 1956 - Birth of Derek Forbes; rocker (Simple Minds - "Water Front").
- 1956 - Birth of Green (Gartside); rocker (Scritti Politti - "Flesh and Blood").
- 1956 - Birth of Tim Russ; actor (Star Trek Voyager).
- 1957 - Birth of Garry Beers in Sydney, Australia; rocker (Inxs - "Kiss the Dirt").
- 1957 - CBS airs the last episode of The Jackie Gleason Show.
- 1958 - Game in Kansas City between Kansas City Athletics and Boston Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado.
- 1959 - Birth of Alan Anton; rock musician (Cowboy Junkies).
- 1959 - Eddie Lubanski bowls two consecutive perfect games.
- 1959 - Most Philadelphia Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax).
- 1959 - Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed).
- 1960 - Birth of Colleen Devine in San Gabriel, California, USA; actress (Irreconcilable Differences).
- 1960 - Birth of Tracy Pollan; actress (Family Ties, Anna Says).
- 1961 - Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies.
- 1961 - Birth of Jimmy Somerville; rocker (Bronski Beat, Communards - "You Are My World").
- 1961 - The final episode of US TV show You Bet Your Life / The Groucho Show airs.
- 1962 - Birth of Ruby Turner; rocker (No Where to Run).
- 1962 - Birth of Nicholas Lea in New Westminster, BC, Canada; actor (Kyle XY, Whistler, Once a Thief).
- 1963 - Birth of Anne-Marie Ruddock; rocker (Amazulu - "Excitable").
- 1964 - Birth of Kevin Sargeant; rocker (Thrashing Doves - "Reprobate's Hymm").
- 1964 - Birth of Mike Edwards; singer (Jesus Jones).
- 1964 - Birth of Amy Brenneman; actress (Judging Amy, NYPD Blue).
- 1965 - Birth of Tommy Cunningham; rocker (Wet Wet Wet - "Wishing I Was").
- 1965 - David O Selznick, Gone With the Wind's producer, dies at age 63.
- 1965 - James D. Lathan and George York are hanged for the murders of 12 people in Tennessee, Illinois, Kansas, and Colorado, which took place over 12 days in 1961.
- 1968 - Birth of Paula Irvine in Hollywood, California, USA; actress (Lily Blake - Santa Barbara).
- 1969 - Death of Judy Garland at age 47 in London, England; singer and actress (The Wizard of Oz, A Star is Born).
- 1969 - In Cleveland, Ohio, USA, the Cuyahoga River catches fire, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river.
- 1970 - Birth of Steven Page; singer (Barenaked Ladies).
- 1970 - US President Richard Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18).
- 1971 - Birth of Mary Lynn Rajskub; actress (24, Larry Sanders Show, Veronica's Closet).
- 1973 - Netherlands' highest court officially bans fluoridation of water.
- 1973 - Skylab 2's astronauts land.
- 1973 - Birth of Chris Traynor; guitarist (Helmet).
- 1974 - Birth of Lecy Goranson; actress (Roseanne).
- 1974 - Birth of Donald Faison; actor (Scrubs).
- 1977 - Former Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison.
- 1977 - In the Tonga Islands, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs, approximately 2200 kilometers north of Wellington, New Zealand. Extensive damage reported on Tonga Islands. Tsunami at Suva and Papeete.
- 1977 - Walt Disney film The Rescuers is released to theaters.
- 1978 - São Tomé and Príncipe recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
- 1978 - Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by James Christy.
- 1979 - Birth of Jai Rodriguez; TV personality (Queer Eye For The Straight Guy).
- 1979 - Death of Emory Parnell at age 85 of a heart attack in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; actor (Life of Riley TV show, Lawman TV show).
- 1979 - Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, Ohio.
- 1980 - Federal Republic of Germany beats Belgium 2-1 to win the Euro 80.
- 1981 - Two Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing two.
- 1981 - John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbeldon.
- 1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
- 1981 - Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is deposed.
- 1982 - Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose moves into second place for career hits passing Hank Aaron with his 3,772 hit.
- 1982 - At the Perth Mint in Western Australioa, 49 gold bars weighing almost 150 pounds are stolen. The crime is never solved.
- 1983 - First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle.
- 1983 - NHL institutes a 5-minute sudden death overtime period.
- 1984 - The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Sanliurfa.
- 1984 - Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.
- 1984 - Columbia releases the film The Karate Kid to theaters.
- 1985 - Birth of Lindsay Ridgeway; actress (Boy Meets World).
- 1987 - Death of Fred Astaire at age 88 at Century City Hospital in Los Angeles, California, USA; singer, dancer ("Night and Day", "Cheek to Cheek", "The Way You Look Tonight", "The Liar's Song").
- 1987 - Tom Seaver retires after third try with New York Mets.
- 1987 - Death of Joseph Meyer at age 93 in New York, USA; composer ("Crazy Rhythm", "If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)" (1925), "California, Here I Come" (1924)).
- 1988 - Death of Dennis Day at age 71 of Lou Gehrig's disease in Los Angeles, California, USA; comic actor/singer (Jack Benny Show radio show, Dennis Day Show radio show, Jack Benny Show TV show).
- 1989 - Ireland's first universities established since independence in 1922 open: Dublin City University and the University of Limerick.
- 1990 - Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a thong bathing suit.
- 1990 - Longest game in Toronto, New York Yankees beat Toronto Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 innings.
- 1990 - Underwater volcano Mount Didicas erupts in the Philippines.
- 1990 - Death of Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908).
- 1990 - Death of Corinthian (Kripp) Johnson at age 57 of cancer in Pontiac, Michigan, USA; musician (Dell-Vikings - "Come Go With Me" (1957), "Whispering Bells" (1957)).
- 1991 - Kevin O'Connor, actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at age 56.
- 1991 - Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Phillipines.
- 1992 - Radio Wimbledon, the Official Radio Station of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships is launched.
- 1992 - Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
- 1992 - US President George Bush presents Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates with the National Medal of Technology.
- 1993 - A Unabomber bomb injures Charles Epstein in Tiburon, California.
- 1993 - Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party.
- 1993 - Death of Patricia Nixon, First Lady of the United States (born 1912).
- 1995 - Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked Nippon Airlines 747 at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.
- 2001 - The final episode of US TV show Xena: Warrior Princess airs.
- 2002 - Saint Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile is found dead of a heart attack in his Chicago hotel room.
- 2002 - Death of Ann Landers AKA Eppie Lederer at age 83 of multiple myeloma at age 83; syndicated advice columnist, radio broadcaster.
- 2003 - The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska.
- 2006 - The Magen David Adom and Palestine Red Crescent Society are officially recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- 2007 - A Force 5 tornado tears through Elie, Manitoba, Canada; no injuries are reported.
- 2007 - Death of Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling manager (born 1964).
- 2008 - Death of Dody Goodman at age 92; actress and TV personality (Jack Paar Tonight Show TV show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman TV show, Different Strokes TV show).
- 2008 - Death of George Carlin at age 71 of heart failure in Los Angeles, California, USA; comedian, author, actor (PBS children's TV shows, 14 HBO stand-up specials).
- 2009 - Kodak announces it will retire Kodachrome color film this year, due to overwhelming competition from digital cameras, after 74 years of production.
- 2010 - A self portrait by French painter Edouard Manet, Manet A La Palette, sells at Sotheby's auction in London for £22,441,250 (US$33 million), a record price for a Manet painting.
- 2010 - The hockey sweater worn by Paul Henderson during the 1972 Summit Series Team Canada win over the Societ Union sells at auction for US$1,275,000, the most ever paid for a hockey sweater.
- 2017 - Death of Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (born 1925).
- 2018 - Universal releases the film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom to theaters.
- 2018 - (to July 1) The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain.
- 2019 - In the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, regional president Ambachew Mekonnen and national-military chief of staff Se'are Mekonnen are assassinated.
- 2019 - Death of Judith Krantz at age 91; writer (Scruples book, Princess Daisy book).
- 2020 - The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 9 million worldwide.
- 2022 - Earthquake measuring 5.9 magnitude strikes Afghanistan's eastern provinces of Khost and Paktika, killing over 1000 people.
- 2022 - Death of Tony Siragusa at age 55 at home in Ortley Beach, New Jersey, USA; NFL football player (Baltimore Ravens, Super Bowl winner).
- 2022 - Death of Patrick Adams at age 72; record producer (Sister Sledge, Eddie Kendricks, Gladys Knight, Salt-N-Pepa).
- 2023 - Death of Joseph Pedott at age 91 of cardiac arrest in San Francisco, California, USA; American entrepreneur (Chia Pet, the Clapper).
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