About June 22
June 22, 2024 is the 174th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 221 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.
- 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.
- 1774 –The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
- 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.
- 1813 –War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
- 1848 –Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
- 1898 –Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
- 1907 –The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
- 1911 –George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1978 –Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.
- 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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