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[22] 2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco . 2012 – 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.
Events. 1844 – Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University. 1898 – Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba. 1918 – Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana. 1969 – The Cuyahoga River caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in ...
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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.
June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake. A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Khost, Afghanistan, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring at least 1,500 others. Red Air Flight 203. A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 catches fire after landing at Miami International Airport in Florida, United States. (The Guardian) Health and environment. COVID-19 pandemic
Lancaster's chevauchée of 1356 in Normandy was an English offensive directed by Henry, Earl of Lancaster (depicted), as part of the Hundred Years' War.The offensive took the form of a chevauchée, a large-scale mounted raid, and lasted from 22 June to 13 July 1356.
June 24, 1922: German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau assassinated by terrorists June 8, 1922: King Alexander and Queen Maria marry in Yugoslavia's first and last royal wedding June 22, 1922: Sir Henry Wilson, British Army Field Marshal, assassinated by terrorists. The following events occurred in June 1922:
Nuclear fission was discovered in December 1938 by physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, and chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann. Fission is a nuclear reaction and process of radioactive decay in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller, lighter nuclei.