June 22
June 22 is the 173rd (174th in a leap year) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days left in the year.
Name days: Paulina + Akács, Ákos, Albin, Albina, Alvina, Horácia, Jósiás, Józsias, Joshua, Jószué, Kriszta, Krisztabella, Krisztiána, Krisztín, Krisztina, Lambert, Rozvita, Tamás, Tinka
Events
I. e. 168 – The Battle of Pudna: Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus defeats and captures the Macedonian king Perseus, ending the Third Roman-Macedonian War.
813 – Bulgarian Khan Krum defeats Byzantine Emperor Michael I in the Battle of Hadrianopolis.
1593 – The Christian army consisting of Croatian and imperial forces wins a great victory over the Turkish army of Hassan Pasha of Bosnia at Siszek.
1633 - Galileo Galilei retracts his views that the Earth revolves around the Sun, forced by the Inquisition.
1940 - The Armistice of Compiègne: General Huntziger signs the capitulation in front of the German troops on behalf of France.
1941 – Germany invades the Soviet Union, the Eastern Front of the Second World War opens.
1944 – Operation Bagratyion: Large-scale Soviet attack on the Eastern Front.
1978 - American astronomer James W. Christy discovers Charon, Pluto's largest moon.
1983 – Blast air explosion in the Márkushegy coal mine in Oroszlány. 37 miners lose their lives.
1988 – The EU authorizes the production of spirits containing thujone (35 mg/kg), so absinthe can conquer again.
1990 - After 44 years of existence, the Checkpoint Charlie border control station in Berlin was demolished.
1992 – In southern Transylvania, in the Vaskapu pass in Hunyad county, Romanians use a machine to knock down the last monument erected in 1896 to the victory of János Hunyadi in Zajkány on September 6, 1442. The four-meter long cast iron mace was found in the lake in Ostró in 1993 and saved in the museum in Várhely. It is stolen from here in 1994.
1994 - Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev visits NATO headquarters to sign the PfP framework document and hold talks with the North Atlantic Council.
Sporting Events
Football
1980 – The East German team wins 2-1 in the EC final held in the Olympic Stadium in Rome over the Belgian national team. Form-1
1952 - Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps - Winner: Alberto Ascari (Ferrari)
1975 - Dutch Grand Prix, Zandvoort - Winner: James Hunt (Hesketh Ford)
1986 - American Grand Prix, Detroit - Winner: Ayrton Senna (Lotus Renault Turbo)
2008 – French Grand Prix, Magny-Cours - Winner: Felipe Massa (Ferrari)
2014 – Austrian Grand Prix, Red Bull Ring - Winner: Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
Births
1399 – Elizabeth, Grand Duke Jagiellon of Lithuania, II. The only child of the Polish king Ulaszló and the Polish queen Hedvig I. (Anjou) († 1399)
1744 – Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, German biologist, pioneer of German veterinary medicine († 1777)
1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt Prussian statesman, epoch-making linguist, esthete († 1835)
1784 – Ferenc Kerekes, Hungarian mathematician, reformed college teacher, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences († 1850)
1825 – Duka Tivadar Hungarian doctor, India explorer, editor of the legacy of Sándor Csoma Kőrösi († 1908)
1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player, the first unofficial world chess champion († 1884)
1850 - Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian orientalist, Semitic philologist († 1921)
1882 – Zoltán Somlyó, Hungarian poet and translator († 1937)
1887 – Julian Huxley, English biologist, zoologist, writer († 1975)
1892 – Emil Telmányi, Hungarian violinist, inventor of the Bach string († 1988)
1892 - Knight Robert von Greim, German aviation officer, Field Marshal, II. World War commander († 1945)
1898 – German writer Erich Maria Remarque (d. 1970)
1902 – Erzsébet Andics Hungarian communist party worker, politician, historian, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences († 1986)
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