Historical Events on June 22

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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
• 431 Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens to settle dispute between Nestorius, Bishop of Constantinople and Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria

• 816 Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III
• 1266 Pope Clement IV commissions English philosopher Roger Bacon to begin "writings and remedies for current conditions" ie. write a summary of the sciences (results in his 1267 "opus major")
• 1342 Fictional character of "The Hobbit" Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, Shire Reckoning

• 1497 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath

• 1559 Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted
• 1593 Battle of Sisak: Christian Habsburg troops defeat the Bosnian Ottoman army under Hasan Pasha, in Central Croatia, wiping out the army and killing their leader

• 1679 Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scots
• 1740 King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture and guarantees religion & freedom of the press
• 1745 Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland
• 1772 Somerset v Stewart court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encouraging the abolitionist movement
• 1774 British parliament accepts Quebec Act, which extends the province's territory and restores French civil law
• 1775 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
• 1799 Britain and Russia decide to invade Batavian Republic
• 1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812

• 1814 1st match at the present Lord's, MCC v Herefordshire

• 1825 British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America
• 1832 John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
• 1844 Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University
• 1847 First ring doughnut supposedly created by Hanson Gregory

• 1848 Beginning of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers
• 1849 Stephen C. Massett opens concert at San Francisco courthouse using only piano in California
• 1851 Fire destroys part of San Francisco, including City Hall and Jenny Lind Theatre, city's seventh fire in 2 years
• 1864 Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia (Wilson's Raid)
• 1864 Skirmish at Culp's (Kulp's) House, Georgia

• 1865 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
• 1868 Arkansas re-joins the US
• 1870 US Congress creates Department of Justice
• 1874 American physician Dr Andrew T. Still founds the study of Osteopathy
• 1874 Game of lawn tennis introduced by Welsh Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, introducing a rubber ball to bounce on grass
• 1875 Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000
• 1878 Swedish ship SS Vega with explorer Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld sets out to find the Northeast Passage (succeeds 1879)
• 1889 Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
• 1893 British fleet under Vice Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut
• 1897 Bombay plague commissioner Walter Charles Rand shot by Chapekar brothers as protest against his extreme measures to combat city's plague epidemic (dies July 3)
• 1900 In China, practically the whole foreign community in Peking, including many Chinese Christians, retreat to British compounds
• 1904 Chinese laborers arrive in South Africa following a severe labor shortage
• 1906 Haakon VII crowned King of Norway

• 1915 BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
• 1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe, Illinois)

• 1922 Herrin massacre, 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
• 1925 Spain and France fight Morocco
• 1926 Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
• 1929 Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader

• 1931 RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
• 1932 Congress approves "Lindbergh Act" making kidnapping a federal offense (amended 1934)
• 1932 NL finally approves players wearing numbers
• 1933 German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden

• 1936 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives
• 1936 Virgin Islands receives a constitution from US (Organic Act)

• 1938 Joe Louis scores a stunning 1st round KO of German Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium, NYC to retain his world heavyweight boxing title

• 1940 1st Dairy Queen restaurant opens in Joliet, Illinois
• 1940 About 10,000 Afrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of South Africa's involvement in WWII
• 1940 France surrenders to Nazi Germany, with the northern half of the country occupied and the south established as the Nazi client state Vichy France
• 1940 SS rounds up 31 German, Polish and Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands
• 1941 June Uprising in Lithuania begins, resulting in the collapse of the Soviet occupation, but replaced with invading German forces shortly after

• 1941 Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group

• 1942 Japanese submarine at the mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
• 1942 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms

• 1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
• 1944 British 14th Army frees Imphal, Assam from the Japanese
• 1944 Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn
• 1944 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre

• 1944 US troops occupy Biak during Battle of Biak, New Guinea

• 1947 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
• 1947 Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn)

• 1951 Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch morning show premieres on NBC radio
• 1954 US Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands

• 1955 US air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea

• 1957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in its transit system
• 1958 Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado

• 1959 "Along Came Jones" by The Coasters peaks at #9

• 1959 American bowler Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games

• 1959 Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
• 1959 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (fails)
• 1961 Beatles record "Ain't She Sweet", "Cry for a Shadow", "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Why", "Nobody's Child" & "My Bonnie", in Hamburg, Germany

• 1961 Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo

• 1962 1st test flight of a Hovercraft
• 1962 French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed

• 1965 Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, v NZ at Lord's
• 1966 South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government
• 1968 "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
• 1969 Cleveland's Cuyahoga River catches fire due to pollution
• 1969 The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) stage a protest by blocking the Lecky Road in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland
• 1970 Irish socialist, republican and Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin, loses her appeal against a 6-month prison sentence imposed for taking part in riots in Derry

• 1970 Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
• 1970 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting
• 1971 Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for study in the United States

• 1972 The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces
• 1973 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water

• 1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land on return voyage from US space station - 1st to safely return to earth
• 1975 Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian who tries to stop them is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion to let the train pass safely)
• 1976 SD Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk
• 1977 Former US Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison for perjury regarding his involvement the Watergate Scandal
• 1977 Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released, first Disney film to get a sequel
• 1978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced
• 1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois

• 1979 Pro Football Researchers Association forms in Canton, Ohio
• 1980 American golfer Don January beats Mike Souchak by 2 strokes to win the Atlantic City Senior International in Northfield, New Jersey; inaugural tournament of the Senior PGA Tour
• 1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours

• 1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
• 1981 Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is impeached and removed from office, several of his associates are executed and he goes into hiding
• 1981 Iranian president Bani Sadr deposed

• 1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes

• 1982 Susan Lea Hammett (18), of Mississippi, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss
• 1983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
• 1983 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period
• 1984 Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
• 1984 Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins
• 1984 Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
• 1984 Joseph Luns resigns as secretary-general of NATO

• 1986 Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting

• 1986 Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
• 1987 A bomb blast in a Johannesburg video game arcade kills an unborn baby and injures ten people
• 1987 The International Labour Organisation, meeting for its annual conference in Geneva, calls for international sanctions against South African minerals

• 1989 Business Day reports that SA is about to test an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads

• 1990 Florida passes a law which prohibits wearing a thong bathing suit
• 1990 Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns
• 1990 MLB Atlanta Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with GM Bobby Cox

• 1991 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in the Philippines
• 1992 Supreme Court rules "hate crime" laws violated free-speech rights

• 1993 NY Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose

• 1994 FIFA World Cup: USA beats Colombia 2-1 in round match at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, 1st WC win since 1950

• 1994 Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253

• 1996 NHL Draft: Prince Albert Raiders (WHL) defenceman Chris Phillips first pick by Ottawa Senators
• 1996 Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test cricket debut
• 1999 Former Mpumalanga premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu causes a storm within political circles with his now infamous statement, "It is acceptable for politicians to lie", South Africa
• 2002 An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.

• 2009 Two Metro subway trains collide in Washington, D.C., killing 9 and injuring over 80

• 2012 Cult Bollywood film "Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1" directed by Anurag Kashyap is released in India
• 2012 NHL Draft: Sarnia Sting (OHL) right wing Nail Yakupov first pick by Edmonton Oilers
• 2012 Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
• 2013 Roskilde 6, world's longest Viking longship (37 meters/123 ft) rediscovered 1996, probably part of King Canute's royal fleet (built 1025 AD) goes on display for the first time at National Museum in Copenhagen [1]
• 2015 JAMA Internal Medical Journal announces obese Americans now outnumber those just overweight

• 2016 NHL owners meeting unanimously approves the Las Vegas expansion bid to start play in the 2017-18 season.
• 2017 NBA Draft: Washington point guard Markelle Fultz first pick by Philadelphia 76ers

• 2018 Eurozone countries agree debt relief deal for Greece, signalling end to the country's economic crisis

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