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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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