WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/June 22
This is a list of selected June 22 anniversaries that appears on 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 soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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HMS Victoria sinking
HMS Leopard (right) fires upon the USS Chesapeake
Diego Maradona
Laura Secord warns 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 | refimprove section, outdated |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 |
| Paulinus of Nola (d. 431) | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1593 – Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs at Sisak (now in Croatia), triggering the Long War.
- 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack, Laura Secord (pictured) set out on a 32 km (20 mi) journey from Queenston, Ontario, Upper Canada, on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
- 1948 – Over 800 West Indian immigrants disembarked the British troopship Template:HMT at Tilbury, England, becoming known as the "Windrush generation".
- 1986 – Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the "Hand of God goal" and the "Goal of the Century" against England during the quarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup.
- 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw struck a region of northwestern Iran, killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others, and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
- Born/died this day: Sayf al-Dawla (b. 916) · Howard Staunton (d. 1874) · Pascual Díaz y Barreto (b. 1876) · Elizabeth Warren (b. 1949) · Lola Baldwin (d. 1957) · Pat Nixon (d. 1993)
Notes
- Capture of USS Chesapeake appears on June 1, so Chesapeake–Leopard affair should not appear in the same year
- 813 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: A vastly outnumbered Bulgarian Empire force defeated a Byzantine army in 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.
- 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck (both pictured) were crowned king and queen of the United Kingdom 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.
- 2009 – Two Metro trains in Washington, D.C., collided, killing nine people and injuring eighty others.
Lucrezia Tornabuoni (b. 1427) · Matthew Henry (d. 1714) · Judy Garland (d. 1969)