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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1825 –
    The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
  • 1848 –
    Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1940 –
    France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
  • 1941 –
    The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 1976 –
    The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
  • 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

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