22 June - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on June 22, the day number in a year is 173 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 174. June 22 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
June 22 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1555 | Humayun crossed the Indus and captured Lahore and ousted Sikandar Suri of Delhi throne. The Mughal Emperor Humayun, gathered a vast army and attempted the challenging task of retaking the throne in Delhi. Humayun placed the army under the able leadership of Bairam Khan. This was a wise move given Humayun's own record of military ineptitude, and turned out to be prescient, as Bairam was to prove himself a great tactician. |
| 1555 | Humanyu defeated Alexander Suri and declared Akbar as successor. |
| 1593 | Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs atSisak (now in Croatia), triggering the Long War. |
| 1633 | Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System by the Roman Inquisition, after which, as legend hasit, he muttered under his breath, 'And yet it moves.' |
| 1740 | King Frederick II of Persia endured tyranny and guaranteed freedom of the press. |
| 1799 | Britain and Russia decided to invade the Republic of Batapace. |
| 1807 | The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake in the belief that the latter had deserters from the Royal Navy. |
| 1813 | War of 1812-After learning of American plans for a forthcoming surprise attack, Laura Secord set out on a 30 km (19 mi) journey from Queenston, Ontario, Upper Canada, on foot to warn Lieutenant JamesFitzGibbon. |
| 1814 | HMS Leander defeated the USS Rattlesnake at Sable Island, Nova Scotia. |
| 1826 | Panama's Pan-American Congress unsuccessfully tried to unite America's republics). |
| 1857 | The Victoria and Albert Museum in London was officially opened by Queen Victoria. |
| 1865 | Dr. W. G. Grace made his first-class cricket debut. |
| 1897 | The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter. The brothers and two accomplices were charged with the murders in various roles, as well as the shooting of two informants and an attempt to shoot a police officer. All three brothers were found guilty and hanged, an accomplice was dealt with similarly, another, then a schoolboy, was sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment. |
| 1906 | Sweden adopted the national flag. |
| 1911 | George V and Mary of Teck were crowned King and Queen of theUnited Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London. |
| 1911 | Kink George V was made King of England. |
| 1918 | The Spanish flu took the form of an epidemic, causing more than 30 million people to die in 6 months. |
| 1937 | Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the thirdtime, in the second Popular Front ministry. |
| 1939 | Subhash Chandra Bose separated from the Congress and established the Forward Bloc. |
| 1940 | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose established the 'Forward Block' after differences with Congress leaders. Netaji had resigned from the presidency of the Indian National Congress after being outmanoeuvred by Mohandas K. Gandhi. The formation of the Forward Bloc was announced to the public at a rally in Calcutta. Bose said that who all were joining, they had to never turn their back to the British and must fill the pledge form by cutting their finger and signing it with their blood. |
| 1941 | Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began on 22 June 1941. Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded Soviet Russia along a 2,900 kilometer front, the largest invasion force in the history of warfare. |
| 1941 | World War II: As over 4.5 million Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started anuprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation and establish a new government. |
| 1941 | The June uprising began in Lithuania. |
| 1941 | Hitler invaded the then Soviet Russia. |
| 1944 | The US enacted a law to help retired soldiers. |
| 1945 | The Battle of Okinawa came to an end. The Battle of Okinawa codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. |
| 1957 | The Soviet Union launched an R-12 missile for the first time. Deployments of the R-12 missile in Cuba caused the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. A total of 2335 missiles were produced; however, all were destroyed in 1993 under the Soviet and US Arms Control Treaty. |
| 1957 | The then Soviet Russia launched the R-12 missile for the first time. |
| 1969 | The surface of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, US, caught on fire,helping to spur the environmental movement. |
| 1975 | National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced in India. In India, "the Emergency" refers to a 21-month period when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi unilaterally had a state of emergency declared across the country. Officially issued by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed under Article 352(1) of the Constitution for "internal disturbance". The order bestowed upon the prime minister the authority to rule by decree, allowing elections to be suspended and civil liberties to be curbed. |
| 1978 | Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, was discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy. Charon is the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto. It was discovered at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. It is a very large moon in comparison to its parent body, Pluto. Its gravitational influence is such that the barycentre of the Pluto–Charon system lies outside Pluto. |
| 1978 | Working at the US Naval Observatory, American astronomer James W. Christy discovered Charon, then considered the sole moon of Pluto. |
| 1984 | Virgin Atlantic Airways took the first flight from Heathrow Airport in London. |
| 1986 | Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the 'Hand ofGod goal' and the 'Goal of the Century' against England during thequarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City. |
| 1990 | Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. |
| 1990 | An underwater volcano erupted at Mount Dadicas in the Philippines. |
| 1995 | India and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sign MOU enabling them to visit suspected militants and persons in detention centres only under humanitarian consideration. This action was praised worldwide by humanists. |
| 2002 | An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw struck a region of northwesternIran, killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others, andeventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow officialresponse. |
| 2002 | A massive earthquake in northwestern Iran killed 261 people, injuring a large number of people. |
| 2009 | Citing declining sales due to the emergence of digitalphotography, the Eastman Kodak Company announced that it woulddiscontinue sales of the Kodachrome reversal film, concluding its74-year run as a photography icon. |
| 2009 | Two Metro trains in Washington, D.C., collided, killing ninepeople and injuring 80 others. |
| 2009 | The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century appeared in India. |
| 2012 | Paraguay's president Fernando Lugo was impeached and Federico Franco became the new president. |
Famous Birthdays of June 22:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1981 | Aquivaldo Mosquera / Footballer / Colombia |
| 1792 | James Beaumont Neilson / Engineer / Scotland |
| 1953 | Mauro Francaviglia / Academic / Italy |
| 1971 | Mary Lynn Rajskub / Actress / United States of America |
| 1964 | Cadillac Anderson / Basketball Player / United States of America |
| 1855 | Samuel Morris / Cricketer / Australia |
| 1996 | Mikel Merino / Footballer / Spain |
| 1955 | Christine Orengo / Academic / Britain |
| 1957 | Garry Gary Beers / Writer / Australia |
| 1899 | Richard Gurley Drew / Engineer / United States of America |
| 1896 | Leonard W. Murray / Admiral / Canada |
| 1915 | Dolf van der Linden / Composer / Netherlands |
| 1951 | Humphrey Ocean / Painter / United Kingdom |
| 1984 | Rubén Iván Martínez / Footballer / Spain |
| 1953 | Wim Eijk / Cardinal / Netherlands |
| 1956 | Markus Schatte / Footballer / Germany |
| 1890 | Aleksander Warma / Politician / Estonia |
| 1864 | Hermann Minkowski / Academic / Germany |
| 1920 | Jovito Salonga / Politician / Philippines |
| 1898 | Erich Maria Remarque / Author / Switzerland |
| 1989 | Jung Yong-hwa / Singer / South Korea |
| 1956 | Shah Mehmood Qureshi / Politician / Pakistan |
| 1897 | Edmund A. Chester / Journalist / United States of America |
| 1885 | Milan Vidmar / Chess Player / Slovenia |
| 1962 | Clyde Drexler / Basketball Player / United States of America |
| 1964 | Dan Brown / Author / United States of America |
| 1946 | Sheila Hollins / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1888 | Harold Hitz Burton / Politician / United States of America |
| 1976 | Gordon Moakes / Bass Player / United Kingdom |
| 1963 | Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi / Wrestler / Japan |
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