published on October 18, 2024 in UncategorizedNewsInfoBlog

Historical Events on June 22

June 22 Calendar

Events 1 - 200 of 221

King Richard II

1377 10-year-old Richard of Bordeaux succeeds his grandfather Edward III as Richard II, King of England

1497 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath

Execution of John Fisher

1535 Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England

1555 Battle of Sirhind: Mughal army defeats the Suri Empire in the Punjab, reestablishing the Mughal Empire and Sultan Humayun
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

Henry Hudson Set Adrift

1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and seven others set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again

Galilei Forced to Recant

1633 Galileo Galilei recants his "heretical" position that the Earth orbiting the Sun was at odds with the Bible and church teaching (Vatican apologizes in Oct 1992 for how it handled the case)

Royal Greenwich Observatory

1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by King Charles II

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

Battle of Beaver Dams

1812 Upon learning of plans by the Americans to execute a surprise attack, Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn British troops, results in a British surprise victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams

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

Napoleon Abdicates Again

1815 After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates for the second time, in favor of his son Napoleon II

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

Martin Van Buren Nominated

1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for President

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

W. G. Grace

1865 Acknowledged as 1st Class Cricket debut of Dr W. G. Grace; as a 16-year-old he is dismissed for 0 playing for Gentlemen of South v Players of South at Kennington Oval, London

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

Coronation of King George V

1911 King George V crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea

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

Gehrig's 3 Home Runs

1930 New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig smashes 3 HRs in 20-13 win over Philadelphia A's at Shibe Park

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

Public Enemy Number One

1934 John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One

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

Elizabeth Meets Philip

1939 Princess and future Queen Elizabeth meets future husband Prince Philip of Greece (Midshipman Mountbatten, RN)

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 Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union during World War II, the largest military operation in history

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

Shostakovich's 7th Symphony

1942 European broadcast première of Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony in London conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood and the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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

Dambuster Awarded Victoria Cross

1943 617 Squadron (Dambusters) attends investiture at Buckingham Palace; Commanding Officer Guy Gibson awarded the Victoria Cross

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

GI Bill of Rights

1944 US President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)

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

Bedser Takes 7-49

1946 English cricketer Alec Bedser takes 7-49 v India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket at Lord's

Gandhi's Call Against Hooliganism

1946 Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop 'hooliganism' by Whites

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

Lady & the Tramp

1955 Walt Disney's animated film "Lady & the Tramp" released

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

Sports History

1958 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Kahkwa CC: Patty Berg wins back-to-back WO titles; beats runner-up Beverly Hanson by 4 strokes

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

Baseball Record

1961 MLB Chicago Cubs' Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive games played streak

1961 Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo

My Bonnie

1961 Tony Sheridan & the Beatles record "My Bonnie" & "The Saints", produced by Bert Kaempfert, in Hamburg, Germany

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

Fingertips

1963 "Little" Stevie Wonder aged 13 releases his first single "Fingertips" (first live non-studio recording to go to No. 1 on Billboard)

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

Event of Interest

1970 President Richard Nixon signs extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that requires voting age at 18 in all federal, state, and local elections

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

Living in the Material World

1973 George Harrison releases his fourth studio album "Living in the Material World" in the UK

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

Beatification

1980 Pope John Paul II beatifies Kateri Tekakwitha, making her the 1st Native American to be beatified

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

Music History

1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing former Beatle John Lennon

1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes

Sports History

1982 MLB Philadelphia Phillies infielder Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd career hit, moves past Hank Aaron into 2nd place

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

Event of Interest

1984 Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways commences operations with flight from Gatwick to Newark

1986 Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting

1986 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, Canterbury GC: Chi Chi Rodriguez wins his first career major title by 2 strokes from Bruce Crampton of Australia

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

Music Concert

1990 Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium, New York City

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

United Nations Speech

1990 Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing has occurred in South Africa to reverse the ANC's position

Sports History

1991 NHL Draft: Oshawa Generals center Eric Lindros first pick by Quebec Nordiques

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

Event of Interest

1992 Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg, Russia identified as Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra

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

Boxing Title Fight

1996 Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavyweight boxing title

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.

Sports History

2007 Patrick Kane is selected by the Chicago Blackhawks as the first overall pick in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft

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

Event of Interest

2011 After hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California

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

Event of Interest

2015 South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for the removal of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in wake of killings in a Charleston church

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

Historic Publication

2017 Prince Harry claims no one in UK royal family wants to be King or Queen in article published in Newsweek

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