Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 22
This is a list of selected June 22 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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HMS Leopard (right) fires upon the USS Chesapeake -
Diego Maradona -
Laura Secord warning James FitzGibbon
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Teachers' Day in El Salvador | refimprove |
| 217 BC – Syrian Wars: Forces under Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire at the Battle of Raphia. | refimprove |
| 168 BC – Third Macedonian War: Roman forces defeated Macedonian King Perseus at the Battle of Pydna. | more footnotes |
| 1633 – Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System by the Roman Inquisition, after which, as legend has it, he muttered under his breath, "And yet it moves." | refimprove section |
| 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally collided with and sank the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria, taking 358 crew members with her. | unreferenced section |
| 1937 – Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the third time, in the second Popular Front ministry. | refimprove |
| 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Union began its operation to expel German forces from the Belorussian SSR and eastern Poland. | refimprove section |
| 1969 – The surface of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, U.S., caught on fire, helping to spur the environmental movement. | refimprove section, outdated |
| 1978 – Working at the U.S. Naval Observatory, American astronomer James W. Christy discovered Charon, then considered the sole moon of Pluto. | refimprove section |
| 2009 – Citing declining sales due to the emergence of digital photography, the Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome reversal film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 813 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Outnumbered Bulgarian forces defeated the Byzantine army at the Battle of Versinikia.
- 1807 – The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake in the belief that the latter had deserters from the Royal Navy.
- 1948 – More than 800 West Indian immigrants disembarked from the British troopship HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury, England, becoming known as the "Windrush generation".
- 1966 – Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyễn Cao Kỳ crushed the Buddhist Uprising.
- 2009 – Two Metro trains collided in Washington, D.C., killing nine people and injuring eighty others.
- Born/died this day: | Paulinus of Nola |d|431| Sayf al-Dawla |b|916| Lucrezia Tornabuoni |b|1427| Matthew Henry |d|1714| Maximilian von Spee |b|1861| Howard Staunton |d|1874| Pascual Díaz y Barreto |b|1876| Elizabeth Warren |b|1949| Lola Baldwin |d|1957| Judy Garland |d|1969| Pat Nixon |d|1993
Notes
- Capture of USS Chesapeake appears on June 1, so Chesapeake–Leopard affair should not appear in the same year
- 1593 – Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs at Sisak (in present-day Croatia), triggering the Long Turkish War.
- 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack, Laura Secord walked 20 mi (32 km) from Queenston, Upper Canada, to warn British lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
- 1911 – King George V and Queen Mary of Teck (both pictured) were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1941 – World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
- 2002 – An earthquake registering 6.5 Mw struck northwestern Iran, killing at least 230 people and injuring 1,300 others, and later causing widespread public anger at the slow official response.
- Leonardo Loredan (d. 1521)
- Matthias Vanden Gheyn (d. 1785)
- Terttu Savola (b. 1941)