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- 0168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
- 0217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom
- 1497 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath
- 1593 Battle of Sisak: Croat troops defeat the Turks
- 1611 Henry Hudson & son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers
- 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.
- 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
- 1679 UK hist Battle of Bothwell Brig in Scotland – Covenanter rebels routed
- 1772 Slavery outlawed in England
- 1775 First Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
- 1775 The first Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
- 1783 Poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
- 1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
- 1807 The British man-of-war Leopard fires on the U S frigate Chesapeake and removes four alleged British deserters
- 1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
- 1812 Napoleon declares war to Russia
- 1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
- 1815 Second abdication of Napoleon
- 1825 British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
- 1827 Spitsbergen Norway, an expedition from Spitsbergen leaves for North Pole; reaches farthest northern point - 82°45' - in July; record stands for 48 years.
- 1844 Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
- 1847 Doughnut created
- 1848 Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 1849 Stephen C Massett opens courthouse using only piano in Calif
- 1866 Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
- 1868 Arkansas re-enters US
- 1870 Congress creates Department of Justice
- 1874 Dr Andrew T Sill, of Macon, Missouri, finds science of osteopathy
- 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.
- 1910 First airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
- 1911 George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.
- 1911 King George V of England crowned
- 1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)
- 1918 Hammond circus train wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
- 1925 G Shajn discovers asteroid #1058 Grubba
- 1936 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives
- 1936 Virgin Islands receives a constution from US
- 1937 Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1937 Joe Louis KOs James Braddock for the heavyweight boxing crown
- 1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of first round at Yankee Stadium
- 1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
- 1941 Finland invades Karelia
- 1941 First anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe founded by Croatian partisans near Sisak, Croatia.
- 1941 Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
- 1941 The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins
- 1941 Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
- 1944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
- 1944 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre
- 1945 Beaufort, Borneo, occupied
- 1945 Japanese resistance on Tarakan ends
- 1947 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
- 1949 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for the boxing title
- 1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
- 1954 Murder of Honora Parker in Christchurch (New Zealand)by her daughter Pauline Parker and her girlfriend Juliet Hulme,both 16 years old
- 1955 Off Clarenville Newfoundland, cable ships start laying new transatlantic telephone cable at Clarenville.
- 1957 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
- 1957 Visitor posting - 1957 Cathy Molina is born (and the world will never be the same) - USA
- 1958 Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado
- 1959 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
- 1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child & My Bonnie, in Hamburg
- 1963 Giovanni Cardinal Montini elected Pope by the College of Cardinals, and takes the name Pope Paul VI.
- 1967 Visitor posting - Jeffrey Wayne O'Brien was born - USA
- 1969 The Cuyahoga River caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in the river.
- 1970 Visitor posting - angela joyner is born - USA
- 1970 Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
- 1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gary Glitter - Always Yours
- 1975 Visitor posting - Adam Tivey was born - United Kingdom [email protected]
- 1976 Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
- 1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
- 1977 In the Tonga Islands a 7.2 earthquake was centered approximately 2200 kilometers north of Wellington, New Zealand
- 1977 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" released
- 1978 Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered.
- 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 moon Charon discovered by James Christy
- 1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
- 1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
- 1981 John McEnroe exhibites a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbeldon
- 1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
- 1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
- 1982 Visitor posting - June 22, 1982 - Alexia Nicole Whitaker was born !
- 1982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital
- 1983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
- 1983 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period
- 1983 The first time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
- 1984 UK hist Inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic
- 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.
- 1987 Fred Astaire actor/dancer, dies at Century City Hospital in LA at 88
- 1988 Dennis Day Jack Benny Show singer, dies of Lou Gehrigs disease at 71
- 1989 Visitor posting - Joshua Sampson was born. - USA
- 1990 Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium
- 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
- 1991 Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn presents Gulf and Kuwait medals to 42 Persian Gulf War veterans; 3,600 others also to get medals.
- 1991 Kevin O'Connor actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at 56
- 1991 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Phillipines
- 1993 Visitor posting - june 22,1993 montrey hughley was born
- 1994 Visitor posting - Kelsey was born in Conroe Texas - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Clayton E Sampel married Joni B Matrin. Now are Mr. and Mrs. Clayton and Joni Sampel. - USA
- 2002 An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.
- 2007 Bear Stearns commits $3.2 billion in secured loans to bail out its High-Grade Structured Credit Fund; says company's troubles are relatively contained.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Ryan Regel turns 15 years old
- 2009 Visitor posting - June 22 2009 Ariana Selbrede turns 20, celebrating as Mrs. Selbrede for the first time.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Magin Holland Turns 17 baby! :)) - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - chase carter mabe turned 1year old - USA
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