Notable Historical Events on June 22nd
June 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
217 |
Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. |
168 |
Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War. |
BC AD | |
431 |
Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens |
816 |
Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III |
1342 |
Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reckoning) |
1377 |
Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England |
1476 |
Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland |
1497 |
Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath |
1533 |
Ferdinand of Austria & Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty |
1559 |
Jewish quarter of Prague burned & looted |
1593 |
Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks. |
1596 |
Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java |
1611 |
Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery & never seen again |
1633 |
Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong) |
1675 |
Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II |
1679 |
Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scots |
1740 |
King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture & guarantees religion & freedom of the press |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland |
1772 |
Somerset v Stewart UK court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encourages abolitionist movement |
1774 |
British parliament accepts Quebec Act |
1775 |
1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000) |
1799 |
Britain & Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic |
1807 |
British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812 |
1808 |
Zebulon Pike reaches his peak |
1812 |
Upon learning of plans by the Americans to execute a surprise attack, Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn the British troops, which results in a British surprise victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams |
1814 |
1st match at the present Lord's, MCC v Herefordshire |
1815 |
2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo) |
1825 |
British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. |
1832 |
John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine |
1844 |
Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University. |
1847 |
Doughnut created |
1848 |
Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres |
1848 |
Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris. |
1849 |
Stephen C Massett opens concert at San Francisco courthouse using only piano in Calif |
1851 |
Fire destroys part of San Francisco |
1864 |
Battle of Ream's Station, VA (Wilson's Raid) |
1864 |
Skirmish at Culp's (Kulp's) House, Georgia |
1865 |
1st class cricket debut of Dr W G Grace |
1867 |
Leopold Marquard, South African clergyman, missionary and educationist, 80 |
1868 |
Arkansas re-joins the US |
1870 |
1st Boardwalk in America invented |
1870 |
US Congress creates Department of Justice |
1873 |
Prince Edward Island joins Canada |
1874 |
Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy |
1874 |
Game of lawn tennis introduced |
1875 |
Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000 |
1889 |
Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss |
1893 |
British fleet under Vice Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut |
1900 |
In China, practically the whole foreign community in Peking, including many Chinese Christians, retreat to British compounds |
1904 |
Chinese laborers arrive in South Africa following a severe labor shortage |
1906 |
Haakon VII crowned king of Norway |
1910 |
1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland |
1911 |
King George V crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea. |
1915 |
BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service |
1918 |
32nd US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats E E Goss (6-4 6-3) |
1918 |
Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois) |
1921 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2) |
1922 |
Herrin massacre, 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois. |
1925 |
Spain & France fight Morocco |
1926 |
Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs |
1929 |
Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader |
1930 |
Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader |
1931 |
RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms |
1932 |
NL finally approves players wearing numbers |
1933 |
German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden |
1934 |
John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One |
1936 |
Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives |
1936 |
Virgin Islands receives a constitution from US (Organic Act) |
1937 |
Joe Louis KOs James J Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title |
1938 |
Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium |
1939 |
Princes (future Queen) Elizabeth meets future husband Prince Philip of Greece (Midshipman Mountbatten, RN) |
1940 |
France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms |
1940 |
SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands |
1940 |
About 10,000 Afrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of South Africa's involvement in WWII |
1941 |
Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation |
1941 |
Finland invades Karelia |
1941 |
Germany attacks the Soviet Union & occupies the Baltic states |
1941 |
Germany, Italy & Romania declare war on Soviet Union |
1941 |
Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk" |
1941 |
The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins. |
1941 |
Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group. |
1942 |
Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon |
1942 |
Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms |
1943 |
W.E.B. Du Bois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters |
1944 |
British 14th Army frees Imphal Assam |
1944 |
US President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act) |
1944 |
Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn |
1944 |
Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn |
1944 |
Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre. |
1946 |
Alec Bedser takes 7-49 v India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket |
1946 |
Bill Veeck purchases Cleveland Indians |
1946 |
Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop 'hooliganism' by Whites |
1947 |
12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO) |
1947 |
Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn) |
1949 |
Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title |
1951 |
Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio |
1954 |
Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands |
1955 |
Antonio Segni forms government in Italy |
1955 |
US air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea |
1957 |
KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system |
1958 |
Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado |
1958 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
1959 |
"Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9 |
1959 |
"Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38 |
1959 |
Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games |
1959 |
Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax) |
1959 |
Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage |
1959 |
Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
1961 |
Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo |
1961 |
Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child & My Bonnie, in Hamburg |
1962 |
1st test flight of Hoovercraft |
1962 |
French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed |
1963 |
"Little" Stevie Wonder (13) releases "Fingertips" |
1965 |
Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, v NZ at Lord's |
1966 |
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens |
1966 |
South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government |
1968 |
"Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88 |
1969 |
Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance |
1969 |
Cleveland's Cuyahgo River catches fire |
1969 |
Susie Berning wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic |
1969 |
The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) stage a protest by blocking the Lecky Road in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland |
1970 |
President Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18) |
1970 |
Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional |
1970 |
WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting |
1970 |
Irish socialist, republican and Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin, loses her appeal against a 6-month prison sentence imposed for taking part in riots in Derry |
1971 |
a Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for his studies in the United States. |
1972 |
"Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances |
1972 |
The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces |
1973 |
Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water |
1973 |
George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World" |
1973 |
Skylab 2's astronauts land |
1975 |
Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
1975 |
The Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian tries to stop the UVF volunteers, and is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion enough to let the train pass safely) |
1976 |
"Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 527 performances |
1976 |
SD Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk |
1977 |
Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison |
1977 |
Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released |
1978 |
James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced |
1978 |
Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill |
1978 |
Pluto's satelite Charon is discovered |
1979 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1979 |
Little Richard quits rock & roll for religious pursuit |
1979 |
Pro Football Researchers Association forms (Canton Ohio) |
1980 |
Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours |
1980 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1981 |
2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2 |
1981 |
Iran president Bani Sadr deposed |
1981 |
John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon |
1981 |
Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon |
1982 |
Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes |
1982 |
Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place |
1982 |
Prince Charles & Princess Diana take son Prince William home from hospital |
1982 |
Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss |
1983 |
"Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France |
1983 |
1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle |
1983 |
NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period |
1984 |
Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins |
1984 |
Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins |
1984 |
Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30) |
1984 |
Joseph Luns resigns as secretary-general of NATO |
1985 |
"Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances |
1985 |
"Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12 |
1986 |
Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
1986 |
Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting |
1986 |
Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections |
1987 |
Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets |
1987 |
The International Labour Organisation, meeting for its annual conference in Geneva, calls for international sanctions against South African minerals |
1987 |
A bomb blast in a Johannesburg video-game arcade kills an unborn baby and injures ten people |
1989 |
Business Day reports that SA is about to test an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads |
1990 |
Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium |
1990 |
Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with GM Bobby Cox |
1990 |
Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit |
1990 |
Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns |
1990 |
Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the Organisation has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a democratic, non-racial SA is within reach |
1990 |
Adam Sandler joins Saturday Night Live |
1991 |
"I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 88 perfs |
1991 |
Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft |
1991 |
Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines |
1992 |
2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg identified as Tsar Nicholas II & Tsarina Alexandra |
1992 |
Supreme Court rules "hate crime" laws violated free-speech rights |
1993 |
NY Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose |
1993 |
Wilson Pickett plead guilty to auto assault due to drunk driving |
1994 |
48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3 |
1994 |
Ken Griffey Jr breaks Ruth's record for most HRs by end of June (31) |
1994 |
Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253 |
1994 |
US beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950) |
1996 |
29th Curtis Cup: Great Britain & Ireland wins 11-6 |
1996 |
Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavyweight boxing title |
1996 |
Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test cricket debut |
1997 |
Ernie Els wins golf's Buick Classic |
1997 |
Nationwide Senior Golf Championship |
1997 |
Penny Hammel wins LPGA Rochester International |
1997 |
World Bowl: Barcelona Dragon beat Rhein Fire, 38-24 |
1999 |
Former Mpumalanga premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu causes a storm within political circles with his now infamous statement, "It is acceptable for politicians to lie", South Africa |
2002 |
An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people. |
2009 |
2009 Washington Metro subway crash: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80. |
2009 |
109th US Golf Open: Lucas Glover shoots a 276 at Bethpage State Park NY |
2011 |
After hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California |
2012 |
Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106 |
2016 |
North Korea 'tests banned missiles' |
2016 |
Senators seek bipartisan deal to ban gun sales to people on no-fly list |
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