Historical Events on June 22 (Part 2)

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• 2018 NHL Draft: Frolunda HC (SHL) defenceman Rasmus Dahlin first pick by Buffalo Sabres

• 2019 Attempted coup fails in Ethiopia, four officials killed including army chief of staff General Seare Mekonnen
• 2019 Russian volcano Raikoke erupts from 700m-wide-crater, seen from International Space Station. Turns sunsets purple across the Northern Hemisphere all summer.
• 2019 Seven-story building collapses in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, with at least 25 construction workers sleeping inside killed
• 2020 Brazil becomes second country to pass 50,000 deaths (officially) with states of Amazonas, Pará, Ceará, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro most effected.
• 2020 Japanese supercomputer Fugaku in Kobe by Riken institute wins world contest to be the fastest
• 2020 New York City, once the epicentre of the pandemic in America, begins stage 2 of re-opening, allowing outdoor dinning and some in-store shopping
• 2020 US government data shows African Americans four times more likely than whites to be hospitalized for COVID-19 highlighting racial disparities for the pandemic

• 2021 Unesco says Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be put on list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger"
• 2022 6.1 magnitude earthquake, Afghanistan's deadliest in twenty years, strikes near Khost, in the south-east, killing at least 1000 and injuring 1500
• 2022 An orangutan in Sumatra is the first wild animal ever scientifically observed using plants as medicine, healing a cheek wound with a poultice [1]
• 2022 MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani strikes out career high 13 batters, retires 23 of last 24 batters faced in 5-0 win over Kansas City Royals in Anaheim, California

• 2022 United Kingdom posts highest inflation rate in the G7 at 9.1%, a 40-year high, lead by a rise in the price of food and fuel [1]
• 2023 Beijing records its hottest June day of 41.1C (105.9F), since records began in 1961 [1]
• 2023 Debris field found for missing Titan submersible with all five on board believed dead after it suffered "catastrophic implosion" near wreck of the Titanic [1]

• 2024 Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten shows his last collection in Paris, before retiring after 38 years [1]

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