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On this day - June 22
Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus ...
Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat ...
431 — The Council of Ephesus, the third ecumenical council, begins, ...
813 — Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the ...
910 — The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz ...
1527 — Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now ...
1593 — Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
1633 — The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his ...
1774 — The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of ...
1783 — A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano ...
1793 — Haitian Revolution: The Battle of Cap-Français ends with ...
1807 — In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship HMS ...
1812 — France declares war on Russia, starting Napoleon's ...
1813 — War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise ...
1839 — Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot ...
1870 — The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. ...
1893 — The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the ...
1897 — British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles ...
1898 — Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the ...
1907 — The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and ...
1911 — Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the ...
1911 — George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the ...
1918 — The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near ...
1922 — British Army Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is killed by the ...
1940 — World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne ...
1941 — World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in ...
1942 — The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by U.S. Congress.
1942 — World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after ...
1944 — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the ...
1944 — World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation ...
1945 — World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end with an ...
1948 — King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of ...
1948 — The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 ...
1962 — Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre ...
1965 — The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic ...
1966 — Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was ...
1969 — The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing ...
1978 — Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, ...
1979 — Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of ...
1984 — Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to ...
1986 — The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the ...
1990 — Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
2000 — Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes ...
2002 — An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of ...
2007 — The small town of Elie, Manitoba is hit by Canada’s most ...
2009 — A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort ...
2012 — A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter ...
2012 — Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by ...
2015 — The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen ...
2022 — An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over ...
2025 — The United States conducts airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear ...