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Events on June 22

• 1633 The Italian physicist and mathematician Galileo Galilei is sentenced by the Inquisition to a ban on publication and life imprisonment for his support of Copernicus's heliocentric model of the universe.
• 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates for the second and final time as Emperor of the French.
• 1865 The first horse-drawn tramway in Germany begins operating in Berlin between the Brandenburg Gate and Charlottenburg via Über das Knie.
• 1933 The SPD is banned from all activities by Nazi Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick.
• 1941 With Germany's attack on the Soviet Union under the codename Operation Barbarossa, the German-Soviet War, which would last until May 1945, begins.
• 1953 The West Berlin Senate votes to rename Charlottenburg Chaussee as 17 June Street in memory of the East German uprising.
• 1974 At Hamburg's Volksparkstadion, the East German team defeats the West German team 1:0 in a World Cup qualifying match with a goal by Jürgen Sparwasser.
• 1980 In the UEFA European Championship final, Germany defeats Belgium 2:1 with two goals by Horst Hrubesch.
• 1990 While the second round of negotiations on the Two Plus Four Agreement begins in Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled.
• 1996 In North America, the first-person shooter Quake is released.
• 2005 Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU) becomes the new Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia after almost 39 years of SPD rule in Germany's most populous federal state.
• 2005 A power failure brings the entire SBB network and thus rail traffic in Switzerland to a halt for several hours.

Born on June 22

• 1864 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and physicist
• 1903 John Dillinger, American bank robber
• 1910 Axel von Ambesser, German actor, director and author
• 1910 Konrad Zuse, German civil engineer and inventor of the first fully functional computer
• 1940 Ursula Schaeppi, Swiss actress and comedian
• 1961 Jimmy Somerville, British musician
• 1962 Campino, German singer
• 1970 Martin Rütter, German animal psychologist
• 1981 Isabell Polak, German actress
• 1990 Jonathan Schmid, French footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „22. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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