On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 22 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 22:
0217 - (BC) Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
0268 - (BC) Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
1476 - Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland.
1558 - The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
1593 - Battle of Sisak: Croat troops defeat the Turks.
1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1812 - By Imperial proclamation, "The Second Polish War" opens. Napoleon reconnoiters the Nieman in preparation for the invasion of Russia.
1815 - Second abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo).
1864 - Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia.
1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
1876 - General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.
1893 - 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.
1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
1915 - Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
1941 - Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
1941 - Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
1942 - A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1944 - British 14th army liberates Imphal, Assam.
1945 - Okinawa secured: 110,000 Japanese troops, 100,000 civilians, 17,520 US troops died.
1955 - Soviets shoot down US patrol plane over the Bering Sea.
1956 - The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in Casbah are blown up.
1995 - Nigeria's former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sami Abacha's military government.
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