JUNE 22 IN HISTORY


Historical events that took place on the 22ND of June
 


1870: The Department of Justice was created by the Congress

1875: The Garonne flood left about 1,000 people dead

1906: Hakon VII became the king of Norway

1918: 58 people were killed after a circus train was hit by a troop train in Illinois

1940: France fell to Nazi Germany

1941: Germany, Italy and Romania declared war on the Soviet Union during the World War II

1962: 113 people were killed after French Boeing 707 airplane crashed in Guadeloupe, France

1981: President Bani Sadr of Iran was deposed

1982: The ‘bus only’ lanes were instituted in Manhattan

1984: Joseph Luns resigned as the General Secretary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

1991: Underwater Volcano erupted in the Philippines

2002: Earthquake killed over 260 people in Iran

2012: The Philippines lent $1billion to the IMF

2013: Mount Fuji in Japan was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO

2013: The Canterbury region of New Zealand experienced its worst flooding in 20 years

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