June 22
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[edit] Births
- 1684 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
- 1757 - George Vancouver, navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
- 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
- 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
- 1856 - H. Rider Haggard, author (d. 1925)
- 1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
- 1887 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
- 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, writer (d. 1970)
- 1903 - Carl Hubbell, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
- 1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
- 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (d. 2001)
- 1906 - Billy Wilder, director (d. 2002)
- 1910 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
- 1920 - Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
- 1921 - Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
- 1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- 1930 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime (d. 1932)
- 1930 - John Joseph Scanlan, Roman Catholic prelate
- 1933 - Dianne Feinstein, senator
- 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar
- 1941 - Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent
- 1943 - Brit Hume, FOX News anchor and commentator
- 1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor
- 1947 - David Lander, actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
- 1948 - Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, recording producer
- 1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
- 1949 - Lindsay Wagner, American actress
- 1952 - Graham Greene, actor
- 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer
- 1954 - Freddie Prinze, Actor/comedian (d. 1977)
- 1958 - Bruce Campbell, actor
- 1970 - Steven Page, singer for Barenaked Ladies
- 1971 - Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP
- 1973 - Carson Daly, talk show host, MTV VJ
- 1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player
- 1978 - Dan Wheldon, IRL race car driver
[edit] Deaths
- 431 - Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
- 1276 - Pope Innocent V
- 1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill
- 1868 - Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
- 1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- 1959 - Hermann Brill, politician
- 1965 - David O. Selznick, movie producer
- 1969 - Judy Garland, singer, actress
- 1974 - Darius Milhaud, composer
- 1987 - Fred Astaire, dancer, actor
- 1988 - Dennis Day, singer, actor
- 1993 - Pat Nixon, wife of president Richard M. Nixon
- 1995 - Al Hansen, artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck
- 1997 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
- 2002 - Darryl Kile, Major League baseball player
- 2002 - Ann Landers, columnist
- 2003 - Daniel M. Jares, Medical Doctor
- 2004 - Mattie J.T. Stepanek, poet
[edit] Events
- 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: Slovene - Croat troops defeat the Turks
- 1633 - 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.
- 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
- 1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
- 1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidently 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.
- 1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.
- 1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
- 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
- 1941 - First Croatian anti-fascist armed unit (partisans) founded near Sisak, Croatia.
- 1941 - June coup in Lithuania against the Soviets starts
- 1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre
- 1950 - The longship replica Ormen Friske, en route from Birka to Rotterdam, broke apart in the North Sea because of improper construction. All 15 crew members drowned.
- 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
- 1963 - Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
- 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
- 1984 - William Schnoebelen and his wife Sharon are "saved" by a tract from Chick Publications. There is some debate over the reliability of this, however.
- 1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored the Hand of God goal against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
- 1989 - Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
- 1993 - Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, United States is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
- 1996 - The Quake computer game is released.
- 2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people
- 2003 - The largest hailstone ever recorded falls from a thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, United States.
