June 22

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 22. From 1900 until now. June 22 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Meryl Streep (1949), Cyndi Lauper (1953) and Emmanuelle Seigner (1966). Several movies were released around June 22 over the years, such as Back to the Future in 1985 directed by Robert Zemeckis and The Conformist in 1970 directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
But much more happened on June 22 over the years: find out below

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2019 2019 Amhara Region coup d'état attempt: An attempted coup in Ethiopia's Amhara state leaves several people dead, including the regional president Ambachew Mekonnen and the Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force, General Se'are Mekonnen. (BBC)
2018 A BNSF Railway freight train with 33 oil tanker cars derails in Lyon County, Iowa; some of the crude leaks into the rain-swollen Rock River. A mandatory evacuation was ordered; there are no injuries. (Des Moines Register)
2017 War in Afghanistan: 2017 Lashkargah bombing: A car bomb outside a New Kabul Bank branch in Lashkargah, Helmand Province, kills at least 20 people. The Taliban claims responsibility. (CNN)
2016 Moro conflict: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declares war on the Philippines. (The Philippine Star)
2015 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All 6 of the gunmen are killed, with 18 people injured. (BBC)
2014 2014 Northern Iraq offensive: Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant capture the al-Walid (al-Tanf) border crossing with Syria and the Turaibil (Karameh) border crossing with Jordan. (AlJazeera)
2013 2013 protests in Turkey:: Police use water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets on thousands of civilians gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square for a memorial to the 4 protestors killed in previous days. (The Guardian)
2012 Syrian uprising (2011-present):
2011 2011 Bahraini uprising: The Bahraini government sentences 10 pro-democracy activists to life in prison for their role in the uprising. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
2010 At least 60 people are killed and hundreds disappear after a derailed train plunges into a ravine in the Republic of the Congo. The accident happened after the train left the coastal town of Pointe-Noire on the Chemin de Fer Congo Ocean (CFCO) line to the capital Brazzaville. (TVNZ) (DNA) (Dawn) (Sky News)
2009 Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.
2008 American comedian George Carlin dies of heart failure in Los Angeles, California, at age 71.
2007 Inflation in Zimbabwe rises to 11,000% U.S. ambassador Christopher Dell predicts it will reach 1.5 million percent by December. (BBC News)
2006 The International Astronomical Union officially names Pluto's recently discovered moons, S/2005 P 2 and S/2005 P 1, Nix (after Nyx, the Greek Goddess of Darkness) and Hydra (multi-headed monster from Greek myth) respectively. (SMH), (National Geographic)
2005 German car manufacturer BMW acquires the Formula One team Sauber Petronas. In the next season the new team will be probably known as BMW Sauber. BBC Sport
2004 The United States Supreme Court rules that Health Maintenance Organizations cannot be sued in state courts under malpractice laws. (Forbes)
2003 The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska.
2002 Saint Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile is found dead of a heart attack in his Chicago hotel room.
1997 Nationwide Senior Golf Championship
1996 Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavywgt boxing title
1995 The New Jersey Devils sweep the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings to win their first Stanley Cup in the lock-out shortened season.
1994 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 3
1993 New York Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose
1992 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg IDed as Czar Nicholas II and wife
1991 I Hate Hamlet closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 88 performances
1990 Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium
1988 Disney releases the Touchstone Pictures animated and live-action feature film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? to theaters. It cost US$50.6 million to make, and another US$30 million for marketing. This film marks the first-ever on-screen meeting of Donald Duck and Daffy Duck. The film is based on the book Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary Wolf.
1987 Tom Seaver retires after third try with New York Mets.
1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1985 Grind closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
1984 Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
1983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle.
1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
1981 Iran President Bani Sadr deposed
1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois
1977 Former Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison.
1976 Godspell opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 527 performances
1975 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1973 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
1972 Man of La Mancha opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances
1970 Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
1969 Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance
1968 Here Come Da Judge by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
1965 James D. Lathan and George York are hanged for the murders of 12 people in Tennessee, Illinois, Kansas, and Colorado, which took place over 12 days in 1961.
1963 Little Stevie Wonder (13) releases Fingertips
1962 1st test flight of Hoovercraft
1961 Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
1959 Along Came Jones by Coasters peaks at #9
1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1957 The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
1955 Antonio Segni forms government in Italy
1954 US Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands.
1951 Gene Rayburn and Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio
1948 The ship ''Empire Windrush'' brings a large group of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.
1947 12 rain in 42 minutes (Holt, MO)
1946 Bill Veeck purchases Cleveland Indians
1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
1943 WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1942 Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1939 Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip
1938 Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling at 2:04 of first round at Yankee Stadium in New York to retain heavyweight championship.
1937 Joe Louis knocks out James Braddock for the heavyweight boxing crown.
1936 Harry Froboess dives 110m from airship into Bodensee and survives.
1933 German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden
1932 NL, finally approves players wearing numbers
1931 RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
1930 Lou Gehrig hits three home runs in a game, Babe Ruth hits three in doubleheader.
1929 Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader
1926 Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
1925 Spain and France fight Morocco
1922 Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
1921 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2)
1920 Greece attacks Turkish troops.
1918 32nd US Womens Tennis: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats E E Goss (64 63)
1915 BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
1911 King George V of England crowned.
1910 The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, ''Deutschland'', makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours.
1907 The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
1906 Hakon VII crowned King of Norway
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