History Events on June 22

Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

#Cold_War

The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.

#Hammond_Circus_Train_Wreck

The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.

#Quebec_Act

The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.

#United_States_Department_of_Justice

George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

#George_V

War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.

#War_of_1812

Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.

#Battle_of_Raphia

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.

#Paraguay

World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.

#Operation_Bagration

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.

#Franklin_D._Roosevelt

The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.

#HMT_Empire_Windrush

The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

#Royal_Navy

A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.

#Washington_Metro

World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.

#World_War_II

World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.

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A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.

#Turkish_Air_Force

The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).

#Hungarians

A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.

#Types_of_volcanic_eruptions

World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.

#Nazi_Germany

Spanish-American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26 km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.

#Spanish-American_War

Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.

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World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.

#Erwin_Rommel

The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured.

#National_Assembly_(Afghanistan)

The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.

#London_Underground

Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.

#Battle_of_Versinikia

Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.

#Rif_War

Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.

#Battle_of_Pydna

Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.

#Charon_(moon)

The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

#Cuyahoga_River

An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.

The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2-1 and later goes on to win the World Cup.

Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Gatwick Airport.

The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.

British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.

Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.

In the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.

The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.

Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta.