WillDekkard
06-22-2010, 04:52 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 22nd
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* 217 BC Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV 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.
* 1593 Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
* 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.
* 1783 A poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
* 1825 The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
* 1844 North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
* 1848 Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
* 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.
* 1897 British colonial officers Rand and Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Ranade, who are later caught and hanged. They are considered the first martyrs to the cause of India's freedom from Britain. The film 22 June 1897 is based on the incident.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1919 The Flag of the Faroe Islands is raised for the first time.
* 1922 Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
* 1940 France is forced to sign the Second Compiθgne armistice with Germany.
* 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Russian The 22 June song is devoted to this day.
* 1941 The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
* 1941 Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
* 1942 Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
* 1944 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
* 1944 President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the GI Bill of Rights.
* 1957 The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in 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, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river.
* 1976 The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
* 1978 Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered.
* 1984 Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
* 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 June 22, 2009 Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.
* 2009 Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
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- June 22nd
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* 217 BC Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV 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.
* 1593 Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
* 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.
* 1783 A poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
* 1825 The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
* 1844 North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
* 1848 Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
* 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.
* 1897 British colonial officers Rand and Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Ranade, who are later caught and hanged. They are considered the first martyrs to the cause of India's freedom from Britain. The film 22 June 1897 is based on the incident.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1919 The Flag of the Faroe Islands is raised for the first time.
* 1922 Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
* 1940 France is forced to sign the Second Compiθgne armistice with Germany.
* 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Russian The 22 June song is devoted to this day.
* 1941 The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
* 1941 Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
* 1942 Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
* 1944 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
* 1944 President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the GI Bill of Rights.
* 1957 The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in 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, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river.
* 1976 The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
* 1978 Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered.
* 1984 Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
* 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 June 22, 2009 Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.
* 2009 Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
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