Information about June 22
June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. Events * 168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War * 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. * 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax. * 1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany. * 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, in one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II. * 1963 - Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals. * 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment. Births * 1757 - George Vancouver, navigator, naval surveyor (+ 1798). * 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, philosopher and statesman (+ 1835). * 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (+ 1884). * 1856 - H. Rider Haggard, author (+ 1925). * 1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (+ 1962). * 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, writer (+ 1970). * 1903 - Carl Hubbell Major League Baseball star (+ 1988). * 1906 - Billy Wilder, director (+ 2002). * 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (+ 2001). * 1920 - Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (+ 1986). * 1921 - Joseph Papp, director, producer. * 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar. * 1941 - Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent. * 1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor. * 1948 - Todd Rundgren, singer. * 1949 - Meryl Streep, actress. * 1952 - Graham Greene, actor. * 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer. * 1954 - Freddie Prinze, Actor/comedian. * 1958 - Bruce Campbell, actor. Deaths * 431 - Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet. * 1965 - David O. Selznick, movie producer. * 1969 - Judy Garland, singer, actress. * 1974 - Darius Milhaud, composer. * 1987 - Fred Astaire, dancer, actor. * 1988 - Dennis Day, singer, actor. * 1993 - Pat Nixon, wife of President Richard M. Nixon. Holidays and observances * Feast of St Alban (Anglican).
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