Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 22

This is a list of selected June 22 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  HMS Victoria sinking
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  King George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom
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  HMS Leopard (right) fires upon the USS Chesapeake
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  Diego Maradona

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Teachers' Day in El Salvador	refimprove
217 BC – Syrian Wars: Forces under Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire at the Battle of Raphia.	refimprove
168 BC – Third Macedonian War: Roman forces defeated Macedonian King Perseus at the Battle of Pydna.	more footnotes
1633 – Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System by the Roman Inquisition, after which, as legend has it, he muttered under his breath, "And yet it moves."	refimprove section
1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally collided with and sank the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria, taking 358 crew members with her.	unreferenced section
1937 – Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the third time, in the second Popular Front ministry.	refimprove
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Union began its operation to expel German forces from the Belorussian SSR and eastern Poland.	refimprove section
1969 – The surface of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, U.S., caught on fire, helping to spur the environmental movement.	refimprove section
1978 – Working at the U.S. Naval Observatory, American astronomer James W. Christy discovered Charon, then considered the sole moon of Pluto.	refimprove section
2009 – Citing declining sales due to the emergence of digital photography, the Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome reversal film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.	refimprove section
Paulinus of Nola (d. 431)	refimprove section

Eligible

• 813 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: A vastly outnumbered Bulgarian Empire force defeated a Byzantine army in the Battle of Versinikia.
• 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.
• 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1941 – World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
• 2009 – Two Metro trains in Washington, D.C., collided, killing nine people and injuring eighty others.
• Born/died this day: Pascual Díaz y Barreto (b. 1876) · Elizabeth Warren (b. 1949) · Pat Nixon (d. 1993)

June 22

Laura Secord warns James FitzGibbon

• 1593 – Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs at Sisak (now in Croatia), triggering the Long War.
• 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack, Laura Secord (pictured) set out on a 32 km (20 mi) journey from Queenston, Ontario, Upper Canada, on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
• 1948 – Over 800 West Indian immigrants disembarked the British troopship HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury, England, becoming known as the "Windrush generation".
• 1986 – Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the "Hand of God goal" and the "Goal of the Century" against England during the quarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup.
• 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 M_w struck 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.

Sayf al-Dawla (b. 916) · Howard Staunton (d. 1874) · Judy Garland (d. 1969)

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