22 June

Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War1593 - Battle of Sisak: Croat troops defeat the Turks1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.1783 - Poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France. 1812 - Napoleon declares war to Russia1815 - Second abdication of Napoleon1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.1844 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.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.1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.1918 - Hammond circus train wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France1940 - France forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Nazi Germany.1940 - The Nagpur conference of the All India Forward Bloc concludes, declared the Bloc as a socialist party.1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.1941 - First anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe founded by Croatian partisans near Sisak, Croatia. 1941 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins1941 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre1954 - Murder of Honora Parker in Christchurch (New Zealand)by her daughter Pauline Parker and her girlfriend Juliet Hulme,both 16 years old1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 1131963 - Giovanni Cardinal Montini elected Pope by the College of Cardinals, and takes the name Pope Paul VI.1969 - The Cuyahoga River caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in the river. 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.1978 - Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered.1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.1986 - The All Jharkhand Students Union is founded, in order to fight for autonomy for tribal peoples in India.2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.
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