On this day in History - Jun 22

• 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV 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
• 0431 - Primeira sessão do Concílio de Éfeso. A cristandade divide-se em relação à expressão «Mãe de Deus».
• 0431 - Paulinus of Nola, dies. Latin poet
• 1276 - Pope Innocent V dies.
• 1535 - John Fisher, dies. Bishop of Rochester, executed on Tower Hill
• 1593 - Battle of Sisak: Slovene - Croat troops defeat the Turks
• 1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
• 1660 - Morreu o primeiro diplomata de carreira português, o embaixador Francisco de Sousa Coutinho
• 1684 - Francesco Manfredini, was born (d. 1762). Italian baroque composer.
• 1699 - Morte de D. Fernando de Menezes (2º conde da Ericeira - Portugal)
• 1757 - George Vancouver, was born (d. 1798). Navigator, naval surveyor.
• 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, was born (d. 1835). Philosopher and statesman.
• 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
• 1837 - Paul Morphy, was born (d. 1884). American chess player.
• 1846 - É patenteado, por Adolphe Sax, o saxofone
• 1846 - Os forais são extintos definitivamente.
• 1846 - Lei que conclui a extinção dos forais em Portugal
• 1856 - Henry Rider Haggard, was born (d. 1925). English author.
• 1865 - Angel Saavedra "Duque de Rivas" dies (b. 1791) . Spanish romantic poet and playwright.
• 1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
• 1868 - Heber C. Kimball, dies (b. 1801). Mormon church leader.
• 1872 - Juana de Vega, dies. Spanish writer
• 1874 - Ficou concluída a instalação do cabo submarino entre o Brasil e a Europa.
• 1885 - Milan Vidmar, was born (d. 1962). Slovene electrical engineer and chess player .
• 1887 - Julian Huxley, was born (d. 1975). British biologist.
• 1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidently rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• 1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
• 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, was born (d. 1970). Writer (Im Westen nichts Neues - "A Oeste Nada de Novo" 1929)
• 1903 - Carl Hubbell, was born (d. 1988). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1903 - John Dillinger, was born (d. 1934). American bank robber.
• 1905 - Francis Lubbock, dies (b. 1815). Governor of Texas.
• 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was born (d. 2001). Author and aviator.
• 1906 - Billy Wilder, was born (d. 27 Mar 2002). Academy Award-winning director: The Apartment [1960], The Lost Weekend [1945]; Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Witness for the Prosecution, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like it Hot, Sabrina, Irma La Douce, The Front Page, Buddy, Buddy.
• 1910 - Konrad Zuse was born. German engineer.
• 1910 - Peter Pears was born (d. 1986). English tenor.
• 1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.
• 1926 - A ditadura militar institui a censura prévia à Imprensa.
• 1920 - Paul Frees, was born (d. 1986). Cartoon voice-over artist.
• 1921 - Joseph Papp, was born (d. 1991). Director, producer.
• 1925 - Morte do matemático alemão Felix Klein
• 1928 - A. B. Frost, dies (b. 1851). American illustrator.
• 1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, was born (d. 1998). Cosmonaut.
• 1930 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, was born (d. 1932). Son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime.
• 1930 - John Joseph Scanlan, was born. Roman Catholic prelate.
• 1931 - Armand Fallières dies. President of france (1906-1913).
• 1933 - Dianne Feinstein was born. Senator.
• 1936 - Kris Kristofferson was born. Country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar.
• 1936 - Moritz Schlick, dies (b. 1882). Philosopher .
• 1936 - Nascimento de Hermeto Paschoal, o mago da música, em Canoa Grande, Arapiraca-AL, Brasil.
• 1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1937 - Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, knocked out James J. Braddock in a boxing match in Chicago, Illinois. The bout lasted eight rounds and Louis was announced as the world heavyweight boxing champion.
• 1938 - Exactly one year later, on this day, Joe Louis knocked out Germany’s Max Schmeling in the first round, in a bout at Yankee Stadium.
• 1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
• 1941- Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
• 1941 - First Croatian anti-fascist armed unit (partisans) founded near Sisak, Croatia.
• 1941 - June coup in Lithuania against the Soviets starts
• 1941 - Ed Bradley, was born. Journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent.
• 1941 - A Alemanha nazi invade sem declaração de guerra o território da União Soviética, até esse momento sua aliada.
• 1943 - Brit Hume was born. FOX News anchor and commentator.
• 1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer was born. Actor .
• 1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre
  1947 - David Lander was born. Actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
• 1947 - Canonização de São João de Brito (01/03/1647 - 04/02/1693)
• 1948 - Todd Rundgren was born. Singer, songwriter, recording producer
• 1949 - Meryl Streep was born. American actress. Academy Award-winning actress: Sophie’s Choice [1982], [supporting actress] Kramer vs. Kramer [1979]; Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, Death Becomes Her, Bridges of Madison County, The River Wild, Music of the Heart
• 1949 - Lindsay Wagner was born. American actress
• 1949 - Luis Filipe Vieira was born. Sportive director, President of Sport Lisboa e Benfica
• 1950 - The longship replica Ormen Friske en route from Birka to Rotterdam, broke apart in the North Sea because of improper construction. All 15 crew members drowned.
• 1950 - Muere don Julio Fonseca, músico y compositor nacional da Costa Rica
• 1952 - Graham Greene, was born. Actor
• 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, was born. Grammy Award-winning singer [1984]: Girls Just Want to Have Fun; Time After Time, True Colors; actress: Mad About You, Life with Mikey
• 1954 - Freddie Prinze, was born (d. 1977). Actor, comedian.
• 1956 - José Perotti dies (b. 8 Jun 1898). Chilean painter. Premio Nacional de Arte de Chile.
• 1956 - Nasser Gamal was elected President of Egypt.
• 1958 - Bruce Campbell was born. Actor.
• 1959 - Hermann Brill dies. Politician
• 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
• 1962 - Sofia Sá da Bandeira was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1963 - Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
• 1963 - Em Portugal, foi inaugurada a Ponte da Arrábida na cidade do Porto.
• 1965 - David O. Selznick dies. Movie producer .
• 1969 - Judy Garland dies. Singer, actress .
• 1970 - O presidente José María Velasco Ibarra se auto-proclama ditador do Equador.
• 1970 - Steven Page was born. Singer for Barenaked Ladies
• 1971 - Kurt Warner was born. Two-time NFL MVP
• 1971 - Mary Lynn Rajskub was born. American actress.
• 1973 - Larry Otis Purdy II was born. African American writer, and poet.
• 1973 - Carson Daly was born. Talk show host, MTV VJ
• 1974 - Darius Milhaud dies. Composer
• 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
• 1978 - Champ Bailey was born. American football player
• 1981 - O presidente iraniano Bani-Sadr é removido do poder por Ayatollah Khomeini.
• 1978 - Dan Wheldon was born. IRL race car driver.
• 1984 - William Schnoebelen and his wife Sharon are "saved" by a tract from Chick Publications. There is some debate over the reliability of this, however.
• 1984 - Morreu o nadador português Joaquim Baptista Pereira, responsável por duas travessias do Canal da Mancha .
• 1985 - Casamento da atriz norte-americana Victoria Principal com Harry Glassman
• 1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored the Hand of God goal against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
• 1987 - Fred Astaire dies. Actor, dancer.
• 1988 - Dennis Day dies. Singer, actor
• 1989 - Dublin City University and University of Limerick are established in Ireland.
• 1989 - O governo de Angola e os rebeldes anti-comunistas do movimento UNITA concordam em um armistício para a guerra civil que já havia durado 14 anos.
• 1992 - Chuck Mitchell dies (b. 1927). American actor.
• 1993 - Pat Nixon dies. Wife of president Richard M. Nixon
• 1993 - Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, California, USA is injured by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber.
• 1995 - Al Hansen dies. Artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck
• 1996 - The Quake computer game is released.
• 1997 - Gérard Pelletier dies (b. 1919). French journalist, politician and diplomat.
• 2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people
• 2002 - Darryl Kile dies. Major League baseball player
• 2002 - Ann Landers dies. Columnist.
• 2003 - The largest hailstone ever recorded falls from a thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, USA.
• 2004 - Mattie J. T. Stepanek dies at 14. Poet who was born with a rare neuromuscular disease called dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy. His disease is one of the 43 types of diseases being researched by the Muscular Dystrophy Association.