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.
- 1593 –Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1898 –Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
- 1906 –The flag of Sweden is adopted.
- 1907 –The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
- 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.
- 1940 –France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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