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

  • 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.
  • 1774 –
    The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1906 –
    The flag of Sweden is adopted.
  • 1911 –
    George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • 1940 –
    France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
  • 1941 –
    The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
  • 1944 –
    Opening day of the Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
  • 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.
  • 1976 –
    The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
  • 1990 –
    Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
  • 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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