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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1898 –
    Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
  • 1906 –
    The flag of Sweden is adopted.
  • 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 –
    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.
  • 1957 –
    The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
  • 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.
  • 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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