June 22 belongs to Patri Camps
Historical events & facts — June 22
What happened on June 22?
On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa — the largest land invasion in history — with more than 3 million soldiers attacking the USSR along a 3,000-km front. Hitler expected to conquer the USSR within three months. The campaign failed and became the largest theatre of operations of the war: between the USSR and Germany it caused more than 30 million deaths.
On June 22, 1940, France signed the armistice with Nazi Germany in the same railway carriage — the Rethondes wagon — in which Germany had signed its capitulation in 1918, in Hitler's deliberate humiliation. France was divided: the north under German occupation and the south governed by the collaborationist Vichy regime. The armistice triggered General De Gaulle's appeal from London.
On June 22, 1986, at the Mexico World Cup, Diego Armando Maradona scored in the same match the two most famous goals in football history: the "Hand of God" — with his hand, unseen by the referee — and the so-called "Goal of the Century" — a 60-metre run past five English players — against England in the quarter-final. Argentina won 2-1 and went on to win the World Cup.
Notable birthdays — June 22
Famous people born on June 22
Ernst Ziller
Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greek national. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was a major designer of royal and municipal buildings in Athens, Patras, and other Greek cities.
Mike Todd
Michael Todd was an American theater and film producer, celebrated for his 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actress Elizabeth Taylor was his third wife. Todd was the third of Taylor's seven husbands, and the only one Taylor did not divorce. He died in a private plane accident a year after they married.
Yeoh Ghim Seng
Yeoh Ghim Seng was a Singaporean politician who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore between 1970 and 1988.
Larkin Kerwin
John Larkin Kerwin was a Canadian physicist.
Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal was a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. Pascoal was best known in Brazilian music for his orchestration and improvisation, as well as for being a record producer and contributor to many Brazilian and international albums.
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