22 Juin

The 22nt o Juin is the 173rd day o the year (174t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 192 days ti come.

Events

1919: Banner o the Faroe Islands

1978: Charon

1990: Checkpoint Charlie

• 1675 - The Ryal Greenwich Observatory opens.
• 1774 - Great Breetain signs the Quebec Act.
• 1783 - The cloud o Iceland's Laki volcanae reaches Le Havre, Fraunce.
• 1893 - Ryal Navy battleship "HMS Camperdown" accidentally rams the Breetish Mediterranean flagship "HMS Victoria", killin 358 fowk.
• 1906 - The current Banner o Swaden is adoptit.
• 1911 - George V o the Unitit Kinrick is crouned.
• 1919 - The Banner o the Faroe Islands is raised for the first time.
• 1941 - Warld War II: Stairt o the Juin Uprisin in Lithuanie.
• 1941 - Warld War II: Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
• 1948 - Passenger disembark frae the RMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, Lunnon - it is the first ship cairryin post-Warld War II Caribbean immigrants tae the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1974 - East Germany defeats Wast Germany 1-0 in a group gemme at the 1974 FIFA Warld Cup.
• 1976 - Canadae abolishes the daith penalty.
• 1978 - Pluto's muin Charon is discovered.
• 1982 - 1982 FIFA Warld Cup: Scotland are knockit oot at the group stage, efter a 2-2 draw wi the Soviet Union.
• 1986 - Diego Maradona scores the "Hand o God" goal for Argentinae against Ingland at the 1986 FIFA Warld Cup.
• 1990 - Checkpoint Charlie is remuivit in Berlin.
• 2000 - A ferry sinks in Sichuan province, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, killin 131 fowk.
• 2002 - A yirdquauk in Iran kills 261 fowk.
• 2008 - Filipino ferry "Princess o the Stars" runs agroond in a typhoon, killin 800 fowk.
• 2009 - John Bercow becomes Speaker o the Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick.
• 2010 - Mari Kiviniemi becomes Prime meenister o Finland.
• 2011 - Jyrki Katainen becomes Prime meenister o Finland.
• 2012 - Fernando Lugo is removed as Preses o Paraguay an replaced wi Federico Franco.
• 2016 - UEFA Euro 2016: Iceland maks it tae the knock-oot stages in its first major fitbaw toornament, defeatin Austrick 2-1 in the feenal group gemme.
• 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The recordit nummer o cases o COVID-19 warldwide reaches 9 million; Brazil becomes the seicont kintra tae record at least 50,000 daiths.

Births

Ada Yonath

Meryl Streep

• 1680 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scots meenister an theologian (d. 1754)
• 1757 - George Vancouver, Inglis splorer (d. 1798)
• 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher an statesman (d. 1835)
• 1792 - James Beaumont Neilson, Scots inventor (d. 1865)
• 1805 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian poleetical figur (d. 1872)
• 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
• 1848 - William Macewen, Scots surgeon (d. 1924)
• 1864 - Hermann Minkowski, Pols-German mathemateecian (d. 1909)
• 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German author (d. 1970)
• 1906 - Billy Wilder, Austrick-American film director (d. 2002)
• 1910 - Konrad Zuse, German ingineer (d. 1995)
• 1911 - Princess Cecilie o Greece an Denmark (d. 1937)
• 1921 - Barbara Perry, American actress (d. 2019)
• 1928 - Ralph Waite, American actor (d. 2014)
• 1933 - Dianne Feinstein, American politeecian
• 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, American sangster
• 1939 - Ada Yonath, Israeli chemist an creestalografer
• 1940 - Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, screenwriter an producer (d. 2016)
• 1943 - J. Michael Kosterlitz, Scots-American pheesicist
• 1944 - Helmut Dietl, German film director (d. 2015)
• 1946 - Jozef Oleksy, Pols politeecian (d. 2015)
• 1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
• 1949 - Elizabeth Warren, American politeecian
• 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American sangster an actress
• 1959 - Nicola Sirkis, French sangster, sangwriter an frontman o Indochine
• 1964 - Dan Brown, American author
• 1970 - Paul Wheelhouse, Scots politeecian
• 1974 - Jo Cox, Inglis politeecian (d. 2016)
• 1984 - Janko Tipsarevic, Serbian tennis player
• 1988 - Mark Stewart, Scots fitbawer

Daiths

• 1276 - Pape Innocent V (b. 1225)
• 1936 - Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (b. 1882)
• 1969 - Judy Garland, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer, sangster and actor (b. 1899)
• 1990 - Ilya Frank, Roushie pheesicist (b. 1908)
• 1993 - Pat Nixon, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1912)
• 2008 - George Carlin, American actor an comedian (b. 1937)
• 2012 - Jackie Neilson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1929)
• 2015 - James Horner, American film score componer (b. 1953)

Halidays

• Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatie)