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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and Observances

Liturgical Feasts

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References

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Events

★ 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV 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 King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War

★ 1593 - Battle of Sisak: 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.

★ 1783 - Poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.

★ 1812 - Napoleon declares war to Russia

★ 1815 - Second abdication of Napoleon

★ 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.

★ 1844 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.

★ 1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.

★ 1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.

★ 1893 - 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.

★ 1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.

★ 1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.

★ 1918 - Hammond circus train wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.

★ 1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France

★ 1940 - France forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Nazi Germany.

★ 1940 - The Nagpur conference of the All India Forward Bloc concludes, declared the Bloc as a socialist party.

★ 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.

★ 1941 - First anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe founded by Croatian partisans near Sisak, Croatia.

★ 1941 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins

★ 1941 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.

★ 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 - Giovanni Cardinal Montini elected Pope by the College of Cardinals, and takes the name Pope Paul VI.

★ 1969 - The Cuyahoga River caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in the river..

★ 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.

★ 1978 - Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered.

★ 1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.

★ 1986 - The All Jharkhand Students Union is founded, in order to fight for autonomy for tribal peoples in India.

★ 2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.

Births

★ 1680 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)

★ 1684 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)

★ 1704 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)

★ 1713 - Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)

★ 1738 - Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)

★ 1757 - George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)

★ 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)

★ 1805 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (d. 1872)

★ 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess master (d. 1884)

★ 1856 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (d. 1925)

★ 1861 - Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)

★ 1864 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)

★ 1871 - William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)

★ 1879 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)

★ 1884 - James Rector, American athlete (d. 1949)

★ 1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)

★ 1887 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)

★ 1888 - Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964)

★ 1892 - Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)

★ 1897 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)

★ 1897 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)

★ 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)

★ 1899 - Michał Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)

★ 1902 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)

★ 1903 - Carl Hubbell, baseball player (d. 1988)

★ 1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)

★ 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (d. 2001)

★ 1906 - Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002)

★ 1907 - Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)

★ 1909 - Maurice Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)

★ 1910 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)

★ 1910 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)

★ 1916 - Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)

★ 1919 - Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)

★ 1920 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986)

★ 1921 - Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)

★ 1922 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (d. 2002)

★ 1922 - Geza Vermes, Hungarian author and scholar of religious history and the Dead Sea Scrolls

★ 1927 - Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)

★ 1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)

★ 1932 - Prunella Scales, English actress

★ 1933 - Dianne Feinstein, American politician

★ 1933 - Libor Pešek, Czech conductor

★ 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, American singer/songwriter and actor

★ 1936 - Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician

★ 1939 - Don Matthews, American football coach in the CFL

★ 1940 - Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter

★ 1941 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)

★ 1941 - Michael Lerner, American actor

★ 1943 - Brit Hume, American news anchor and commentator

★ 1943 - Eumir Deodato, Brazilian artist, producer and arranger

★ 1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor

★ 1944 - Peter Asher, British singer, guitarist and producer (Peter & Gordon)

★ 1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (''Buena Vista Social Club'')

★ 1947 - Octavia Butler, American author (d. 2006)

★ 1947 - Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana

★ 1947 - David Lander, American actor and baseball scout

★ 1947 - Howard Kaylan, founding member of The Turtles

★ 1947 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)

★ 1948 - Todd Rundgren, American songwriter and record producer

★ 1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress

★ 1949 - Lindsay Wagner, American actress

★ 1949 - Alan Osmond, American singer

★ 1952 - Graham Greene, Canadian actor

★ 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer

★ 1954 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)

★ 1956 - Tim Russ, American actor

★ 1955 - Green Gartside, Welsh singer songwriter

★ 1957 - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS

★ 1957 - Danny Baker, English comedy writer and radio presenter

★ 1958 - Bruce Campbell, American actor

★ 1959 - Wayne Federman, American comedian, actor, author

★ 1959 - Nicola Sirkis, French singer, guitarist and lyricist (Indochine)

★ 1959 - Mike O'Meara, co-host of Don and Mike Show

★ 1960 - Erin Brockovich-Ellis

★ 1961 - Stephen Batchelor

★ 1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards)

★ 1962 - Clyde Drexler, former American NBA player

★ 1962 - Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director

★ 1963 - Randy Couture, American mixed martial artist

★ 1964 - Dan Brown, American author

★ 1965 - Lubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer

★ 1966 - Michael Park, WRC co-pilot (d. 2005)

★ 1966 - Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress

★ 1968 - Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player

★ 1970 - Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)

★ 1970 - Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman

★ 1971 - Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress

★ 1972 - Miguel Del Toro, Mexican baseball player

★ 1973 - Carson Daly, American television personality

★ 1974 - Donald Faison, American actor

★ 1975 - Andreas Klöden, German professional road bicycle racer

★ 1975 - Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress

★ 1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player

★ 1978 - Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality

★ 1978 - Dan Wheldon, British race car driver

★ 1979 - Joey Cheek, American speed skater

★ 1979 - Thomas Voeckler, French road bicycle racer

★ 1979 - Brad Hawpe, American baseball player

★ 1981 - Chris Urbanowicz, guitarist of British rock band Editors

★ 1982 - Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model

★ 1982 - Ian Kinsler, American baseball player

★ 1984 - Jerome Taylor, West Indies international cricketer

★ 1984 - Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player

★ 1988 - Kieran Lee, English football player

Deaths

★ 1276 - Pope Innocent V

★ 1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)

★ 1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed)

★ 1632 - James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)

★ 1634 - Johann Graf von Aldringen, Austrian soldier (b. 1588)

★ 1699 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)

★ 1714 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)

★ 1868 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)

★ 1874 - Howard Staunton, English chess master (b. 1810)

★ 1892 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)

★ 1894 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)

★ 1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)

★ 1913 - Ştefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)

★ 1925 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)

★ 1928 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)

★ 1931 - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)

★ 1933 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)

★ 1935 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)

★ 1959 - Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)

★ 1961 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)

★ 1963 - Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)

★ 1964 - Havank, Dutch writer (b. 1904)

★ 1965 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)

★ 1969 - Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)

★ 1974 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)

★ 1979 - Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)

★ 1984 - Joseph Losey, American theater and film director (b. 1909)

★ 1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)

★ 1988 - Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)

★ 1989 - Lucien Saulnier, French Canadian politician (b. 1916)

★ 1990 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)

★ 1992 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)

★ 1993 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)

★ 1994 - Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (b. 1903)

★ 1995 - Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)

★ 1997 - Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)

★ 1997 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)

★ 2002 - Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)

★ 2002 - Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)

★ 2004 - Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)

★ 2004 - Bob Bemer, computer scientist (b. 1920)

★ 2004 - Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (b. 1970)

★ 2006 - Moose (dog actor), dog actor popular for role on Frasier (b. 1990)

★ 2007 - Nancy Benoit, former professional wrestling valet, wife of Chris Benoit (b. 1964)

★ 2007 - Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)

Holidays and Observances

★ Anti-fascist struggle day in Croatia

★ School-teachers' Day in El Salvador.

★ World Wide VW Beetle Day

★ Bring your pet to work Day

Liturgical Feasts

★ Aaron of Aleth (fl. 6th century)^[1]

★ Saint Alban see June 21

★ Saint John Fisher (died 1535)

★ Saint Paulinus of Nola (died 431)

★ Saint Sighild

★ Blessed Nangatang (died 1426)

★ Saint Thomas More (died 1535)

★ Blessed Lambert (died 1125)

See also

★ The 22 June song

References

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★ Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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