About June 22
June 22, 2022 is the 173rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 214 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.
- 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.
- 1848 –Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
- 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.
- 1918 –The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
- 1922 –Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
- 1941 –Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
- 1941 –The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
- 1942 –Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
- 1957 –The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
- 1962 –An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
- 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.
- 1984 –Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
- 1990 –Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
- 2002 –An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slowness of the victims receiving aid and supplies.
- 2009 –Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing nine and injuring over 80.
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