About June 22
June 22, 2024 is the 174th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 221 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 22
- 217 BC –Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator 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.
- 1593 –Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
- 1783 –A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
- 1839 –Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
- 1848 –Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
- 1898 –Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
- 1911 –George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1922 –Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
- 1940 –France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
- 1941 –The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
- 1942 –Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
- 1945 –World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
- 1957 –The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
- 1962 –An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
- 1969 –The Cuyahoga River catches fire, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river.
- 1976 –The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
- 1984 –Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
- 1990 –Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
- 2009 –Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing nine and injuring over 80.
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