About June 22
June 22, 2025 is the 173rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 240 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 22
- 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 King Perseus 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.
- 1839 –Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
- 1848 –Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
- 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.
- 1897 –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.
- 1898 –Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
- 1941 –Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
- 1941 –The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
- 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 the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
- 1969 –The Cuyahoga River catches fire, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river.
- 1978 –Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.
- 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 nine and injuring over 80.
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